Commentary

THE CHRON’S DAVID KAPLAN takes a look at Houston’s highly successful downtown tunnel system, which continues to evolve nicely without the help of urban planners or bloated bureaucracies.

IN RESPONSE TO RECENT NEGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE FROM THE CHRONICLE AND BLOOMBERG, Sports Authority Chief J. Kent Friedman took to the Chron editorial page today to repeat, again, that taxpayers won’t be on the hook

THEY’RE MORE WHAT YOU’D CALL “GUIDELINES” THAN ACTUAL RULES: The Examiner‘s Rusty Graham notes that a Houston councilmember and local residents are questioning how TIRZ 17 operates. Councilwoman Jolanda Jones thinks there’s a contract involved,

THE CHRON reports what many of us learned via social networking sites yesterday: Embattled Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole will be running for re-election. The Chron version does offer comment from the usual go-to sources

CONTROLLER CANDIDATE PAM HOLM has purchased a 30-minute block on KCOH-1430 to allow opponent Ron Green “to explain his more than $120,000 federal income tax debt to you and to Houston voters.” We don’t expect

FOR SOME REASON, THE NEW YORK TIMES decided Houston’s mayoral race merited a story. To summarize: There’s not much difference among the three major candidates, one of them is a lesbian but it’s not that

YESTERDAY KEVIN WHITED NOTED that METRO VP Raequel “9-volt battery” Roberts gave a snippy response to Texas Watchdog’s Jennifer Peebles who was inquiring about media access to METRO Chairman David Wolff’s upcoming speech to the

AT LEAST ONE COLLEAGUE of Chron baseball reporter/McLane PR man Jesus Ortiz apparently isn’t impressed with his work either. Astros County posts the details.

SO THE CITY OF HOUSTON wants Harris County to go after vehicle owners who haven’t paid red light camera tickets, but the city is unwilling to pay county toll fines incurred by drivers of city

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER reports that over a thousand HISD employees have been issued district credit cards, despite the fact that some of those cardholders have serious credit issues. Perhaps it’s time for HISD’s new