Articles by Anne Linehan

The City of Houston is purchasing a new park (via KUHF-88.7): In a $5 million deal, the city is about to purchase 22 acres of land in the heart of Alief. Houston Parks Department Director

Anne Maria Kilday and Matt Stiles have the story for the Chronicle: The federal government will boost anti-terrorism funding for the Houston area this year by about 50 percent, providing $25 million locally, officials were

It is sales tax-reporting time: As part of the July disbursement of sales tax allocations, Houston received $36.3 million, up from $34.85 million a year ago — a 4.1 percent increase. But Sugar Land saw

Remember last fall when Mayor White, (temporarily not mayor pro tem) Carol Alvarado, and the rest of City Council beat their collective chest and passed an expanded (but with exemptions) smoking ban? Yeah, well, it’s

Following up on yesterday’s Chronicle editorial extolling the great vision of New Urban planner Andres Duany, the Chron’s Mike Snyder has a story detailing what Duany has been doing in Houston (designing three projects), and