- Efforts to turn downtown into residential haven remain elusive – Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle
Terrible headline. The expensive EFFORTS are not elusive. It’s the promised results (although someone should really inform Stephen Klineberg). - Pavilions developers to get advance from city – Purva Patel, Houston Chronicle
See above re: EFFORTS. - Houston City Council OKs $50 cost for SafeClear tows – Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle
- City council votes to charge for Safe Clear – KHOU-11 News
- Increasing Security After Osama bin Laden's Death – Write on METRO
The biggest security threat is in the Park and Pillages. - Only a fool would buy flood insurance during a drought. Right? – SciGuy
Nope. It’s a bargain and a smart buy for homeowners in Houston. - Ads on HISD Buses – Pat Hernandez, KUHF News
- Airport workers to lose their jobs – Katie McCall, KTRK-13 News
Be sure to watch the video, in which so many of the yellow-shirted employees are shown chatting with each other and playing on expensive Segways. The airport yellow-shirts are a jobs program the city can no longer afford. Many cities have volunteers to help travelers in their airports. We should do something similar. - New McGuff blogger brought into this world – Mike McGuff
Congrats to the McGuffs! - Amazon complains to the SEC about Texas trying to collect taxes on it – Off the Kuff
Quit whining, Amazon.
So, it’s whining if Amazon objects to what it believes are unfair sales tax practices, but it’s apparently not whining for Kuffner to employ a private firm to try to hold down his own property tax bill? Interesting.
- NY Senator Chuck Schumer Feels the Awesome Power of Michael Berry – Richard Connelly, Hair Balls
The tiresome KTRH talk-show host has found a new dead horse to beat:…
Did the one-time media critic turned KTRH-beat blogger for an amateurish corporate weekly REALLY just describe someone else as tiresome and beating a dead horse? Wow.
- What an odd editorial…. – Harris County Almanac
- Making lemonade at the Chronicle – Unca Darrell
