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City may face lower sales tax collections on top of massive budget deficits

January 1, 2015 Kevin Whited

Likely mayoral candidate and former Chronicle columnist Bill King released a short note on City of Houston sales tax collections, the City’s budget assumptions, and the City’s looming budget deficits as the area economy is

Happy 2015! (and more than a few challenges that await…)

January 1, 2015 Kevin Whited

Thanks, as always, for checking in on the blog over the past year. Life intruded somewhat at the end of the year, so posting slowed down a bit (okay, more than a bit), but we

Remembering Bob Lanier

December 31, 2014 Neal Meyer

Greetings everyone! It’s been several months since I’ve posted at this little corner of the Internet universe, but I couldn’t let pass without commenting on former City of Houston mayor Bob Lanier, who passed away

Strange HPD stunt: Red-light cameras make appearance in flawed “study”

October 30, 2014 Kevin Whited

HPD went to City Hall this week with a strange message: Accidents are way up at intersections that used to have red-light cameras, but this “fact” (more on that below) should not be taken as

Dazed and confused: Parker Administration backtracks on religious subpoenas

October 29, 2014 Kevin Whited

Houston’s increasingly beleaguered mayor, Annise Parker, backtracked Wednesday on her administration’s efforts to intimidate her perceived political enemies in the clergy via the subpoena process. The move came only two weeks after she effectively doubled

Houston Chronicle editorial board endorses single-issue candidate for governor, commits major gaffe

October 18, 2014 Kevin Whited

The Houston Chronicle editorial board, led by diminutive former editor-in-chief Jeff Cohen, has endorsed Democratic candidate Wendy Davis for governor. It’s not particularly surprising that this irrelevant editorial board would endorse a largely unqualified candidate

Parker Administration goes after religious political enemies, then backtracks by blaming others

October 15, 2014 Kevin Whited

On Monday, the not-entirely-reliable site World Net Daily reported that the Annise Parker Administration had subpoenaed the sermons and other communications of certain pastors who have been critical of Mayor Annise Parker’s preoccupation with imposing

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