Commentary

KTRK-13 UNDERCOVER MAN WAYNE DOLCEFINO offers Part Three of his investigation into allegedly wasteful spending by Spring ISD administrators. This time, he looks at more travel boondoggles and an expensive consultant named Spence Rogers (no

ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS FIRE occurred this morning in the Heights (KTRK-13, Chronicle). Maybe the crack HPD leadership should deploy its new Plainclothes/Vagrant Battalion to hold up “Please don’t burn buildings” signs in the neighborhood?

WHICH OF HOUSTON’S MAYORAL CANDIDATES promises magic? Slampo has the answer.

STATE OF METRO: METRO’s expensive blogger notes that Chairman David Wolff will be speaking at the Greater Houston Partnership next week: If you want to find out exactly what’s going on at METRO, our current

THE AUSTIN-BASED LIBERAL BLOG BURNT ORANGE REPORT (which recently endorsed Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker, lately the hot pick of liberal bloggers) has posted a scorching critique of the Harris County Tax Office, contending the

CORY CROW mocks this ongoing waste of tax dollars. Chron.com’s whimsical opinion-section linkblog also linked it, sans mockery.

ASTROS OWNER DRAYTON MCLANE’S REPUTATION has been taking a justified hit of late, over everything from front-office/coaching instability to high concession prices to incessant meddling to poor results on the field to the bungled attempt

CHRON METRO/STATE COLUMNIST RICK CASEY follows up today with more discussion of area black churches and campaign finance, raising questions about various candidates’ donations to black churches and how campaigns/individuals account for the same (the

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reports on an increasingly important topic in Houston, Texas: Flood control. As the subheadline notes, it’s “an issue with no cheap solution.” And as Houston continues to grow, our flood-control issues

KTRK-13 reports that HPD is rolling out a new program “to crack down on aggressive drivers.” One element of the program will involve plainclothes police officers standing on the sides of surface streets, creating a