Year: 2011

There will be a candlelight vigil Tuesday night for the two precious children who were killed yesterday evening in Spring. The vigil will begin at 8:30 at the Church at Creek’s End, 20010 Kuykendahl, south

We’re putting the little blog (and ourselves) on vacation for a couple of weeks. Here’s hoping the cooler weather continues, with rain added to the mix…

Metro board hears little negative comment on Greanias – Carol Christian, Houston Chronicle The Rev. Dave Welch, executive director of Houston Area Pastor Council, read a letter to board chairman Gilbert Garcia from the council

Yesterday, Harvey Kronberg noted that Chronicle metro/state columnist Rick Casey will be retiring, to be replaced by Patricia Kilday Hart. There won’t be much change in ideology, as both are reliably left of center, nor

Battle brewing over Texas public pensions – Kate Alexander, Austin American-Statesman A group of high-powered Houston business leaders is starting a statewide campaign to overhaul retirement for future teachers, firefighters, police officers, judges and other

Note: The following report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Click here to view the story on the Texas Watchdog website. BY MIKE CRONIN AND JENNIFER PEEBLES There’s trouble at the

Metro abandoning bid to payoff general mobility carry-over in fiscal 2012 – Mike Reed, Your Houston News Metro has abandoned plans to complete its carry-over general-mobility payments to the city of Houston and Harris County

ATS offers last-minute settlement – Chris Moran, Chron Houston Politics A top executive of the city’s red-light camera vendor publicly offered not to pursue damages for the eight months the city had the cameras dark

Last week, City Council took up Mayor Parker’s Hire Houston First initiative. The item was tagged, and returns to Council this week (item #33). We have not previously discussed the initiative, but here is an

Houston critics see red over traffic cams – Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle A little over a month ago, Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced she was turning the red-light cameras back on and declared she did