This past week brought some wonderful news for a beleaguered Houston in the form of the Houston Astros winning their first Major League Baseball World Series in the 56-year history of the club franchise! Congratulations
As the entire world knows, the Houston metropolitan area (indeed much of the Texas Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Lake Charles Louisiana) was pummeled during the last week of August 2017 by Nature in
It’s been, what, four months now since I last made a blog post. I’ve had some personal things going on that have put a damper on my appetite for politics, but those matters have been
“The whole world is living today off of tomorrow’s money.” -Old Man Meyer back in the Stone Age, as he got out of the car coming home from work, speaking to a 16 year old
It’s been over five months since I published my last blog post on flooding. I have to confess to not belting out my rancid criticism of local government like I once did, but I don’t
This second flood will either kill me or ruin my marriage. I cannot deal. My house is in shambles, my kids are overwhelmed. And my husband and I are fighting over what to do or
Every once in a rare blue moon, perhaps once in a century, the Houston Chronicle editorial board manages to get something right. Amazingly, the Chronicle did in fact manage to pull off this rare feat
Two weeks ago, the story broke in the Houston Chronicle that Houston First, a local agency chartered by the City of Houston to run the convention facilities in downtown Houston — the George R. Brown
This past Friday, 10 July 2015, the Houston Chronicle‘s current transportation beat writer, Dug Begley, posted what was the second story on the ridership numbers for the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s newly opened rail lines, and
On 15 May 2015, the Houston Property Rights Association welcomed Kyle Workman, President of Texas Against High Speed Rail, to speak at its weekly group luncheon. Mr. Workman introduced himself, as one can read from