Year: 2012

Most often, the blog points out examples of local journalistic and/or governmental stupidity. Today, we interrupt the blog “slowdown” to share three examples of general stupidity. Be sure to click over for the full stories/posts.

Just remember, if you keep it between $10 and $20 million, Houston’s in: “At first blush, I am pleased with the response to our RFQ, but we have a lot of due diligence to do

We’re putting the blog in official slowdown mode for a little while. There’s nothing “bad” going on. But we’ve been doing the blog pretty much continuously for quite a few years now, and Anne Linehan

Students hardest hit: the Texas Education Commissioner said North Forest is being given another year to try to improve its status. Because after years of promising to improve (and failing), district officials now have a

A Swamplot reader recently took a detour while at the Rodeo and ventured into the Astrodome. Follow the link to see the pics.

Tom Bazan passes along this interesting chart he put together detailing the projections made by one of the city’s favorite consultants to justify its deep involvement in the convention center hotel versus actual revenue performance

While Mayor Parker wants to criminalize giving food to the needy, she is moving to de-criminalize tailgating at Houston sports venues: Houston’s mayor and city council will consider amending city ordinances to essentially allow tailgating

The last week or so sort of got away from us, so here’s a quick link post to catch up: Housing authority paid thousands to employees' friends, relatives, records show – Mike Morris and Susan

The county attorney looked into all of it and decided in the letter that nothing was illegal, but said it probably wasn’t the best way to handle this. [snip] By the way, there is no