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Slow week, after all. Most of the agenda is routine business, but there are three items I’d like to flag for everyone’s attention. One key item was held over from last week: a series of

Is it just me, or have the last month’s-worth of agendas had more interesting material than the rest of the year combined? Is it something in the air? Or is it that everyone’s overdosed on

Last week, Mayor White cleared the entire agenda in order to consider quickly four items related to hurricane clean up. This week’s agenda is much more normal, but there are still a few items related

An emergency meeting of the Houston City Council has been called, and there are only four ordinances on the agenda. Summary of the items: 1. Extends the disaster declaration beyond the initial seven days authorized

Once again, the City’s priorities are catching up to it, in a very disruptive manner. A water leak has buckled the East Freeway, the Chron.com reports. I’m sure the State of Texas is going to

Last week, I posted about the Houston Housing Authority, which is dead set on charging 61 tenants (or forcing them to pay third parties) about $3,400 each to regain access to their material possessions, now