Year: 2011

Austerity budget: Parker's spending plan goes a long way toward minimizing and spreading the pain – Houston Chronicle Mayor Parker noted that even though library hours are being cut, care has been taken to make

Art Car Parade Rolls Through Houston – Damali Keith, KRIV-26 News Works of art on wheels rolled through Downtown Houston. However a little something is looming over the 24th annual Art Car Parade. This could

More uproar as drainage bills arrive: Critics call mayor’s repeated use of $5 average fee misleading – Chris Moran and Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle “The charges are anywhere from three to six times what the

Metro roars past DART in transit-access rankings – Bill King, Houston Chronicle On the balance-sheet side of things, DART has run up $3.5 billion in debts compared to Metro, which has a little more than

Replacing Tom Lambert who, inexplicably, was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer, is HPD Captain Victor Rodriguez: A former captain in the Houston Police Department became METRO’s new police chief today, ending a year-long search. Victor

HPD: Speeding driver goes airborne, splits electrical pole in half near Galleria – KHOU-11 News A driver survived a major crash early Thursday after going airborne and slamming into a wooden electric pole, according to

The Examiner‘s Mike Reed reports from one of METRO’s recent roadshows: “This keeps getting presented as rail or more (highway) paving,” Houston City Councilman Oliver Pennington said at one point, taking exception to remarks from

What Happened to Swamplot Comments — and Some Apologies – Swamplot The threat of a nuisance lawsuit (like the one local Dem donor and bully attorney Steve Mostyn threatened against Texas Watchdog) is one of

KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino continues his reporting on the Port Authority with a closer look at the sweetheart severance package (worth $380,000) given to former PR director Argentina James: And who helped negotiate that sweetheart severance

TOM BAZAN passes along a guest commentary on the proposed sale of certain City of Houston facilities (like the GRB convention center) that we have posted here.