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Well, they’re at it again, the one department that continues to embarrass the city only somewhat less than the HPD Crime Lab. This time, the Houston Housing Authority is holding hostage all the remaining worldly

Tomorrow the council will meet to begin “deliberations” on Mayor White’s plan to pay over three times the appraised value for some land downtown, plus engineer some land swaps for the owners of the Dynamo.

Texas Southern University may be about to receive another black mark; this time, firing a president and putting her on trial isn’t going to fix it. This issue goes deeper into TSU’s ongoing failure to

A man goes missing on Monday. The family files a missing person complaint with HPD that day. Tuesday night, Precinct 5 constables find the vehicle in an apartment complex. There are two juveniles inside, the

The mayor is back today with a new letter released to the city employees (and one presumes, the Chronicle) about his plans to continue underfunding the civilian employee pensions. May 23, 2007 To: City of

Events have conspired to keep me from doing a full post on the agenda for the second week in a row, but I managed the time for a brief post. Thanks to Matt Stiles of

As noted by Matt Stiles in the Chronicle’s City Watch Blog, I review the council agendas each week for items of interest and post here. The reason he said I do this “occasionally” is because