Commentary

THE ANTI RED-LIGHT CAMERA FOLKS have submitted their referendum petitions to the City of Houston, and Mayor Annise Parker is signaling that she’s not going to make it easy for them to get on the

TODAY, THE CHRONICLE finally got around to covering Mayor Annise Parker’s decision to de-emphasize Andy Kahan’s victim’s rights office by moving it from the mayor’s office (where it was placed by Mayor Bob Lanier as

UNCA DARRELL wonders why the Chron editorials have been a little less offensive than usual… and figures out that one editorialist is apparently on vacation. It’s still bad. Shutter it, we say, and redeploy the

LAST NIGHT, a METRO bus driver crashed into an empty building to avoid a car running a red light. Neal Meyer noticed an interesting fact in the reporting: No passengers were on the bus or

WE don’t comment much here on professional food writing in Houston these days, since we’re still somewhat in denial over the fact that our big and diverse restaurant town is pretty much covered by one

KTRK-13’S WAYNE DOLCEFINO says that ethics questions are swirling around Councilmember Jarvis Johnson’s office.

THE CHRON’S JAMES PINKERTON AND YANG WANG turned in some excellent watchdog reporting today on the city’s fairly lax (and costly) take-home vehicle policy. Here’s a teaser: [A] Houston Chronicle analysis shows hundreds of municipal

THE NEW YORK TIMES posts a blurb on Washington Avenue and Houston’s Washington Wave jitney service. Will such “world-class” acclaim hold off Yellow Cab (which surely would still like to put jitneys fully out of

THIS may have been the best local news headline of the week: Women at Houston Port Win a Round in Potty Wars Definitely go read, then come back to comment!

ISIAH CAREY asks, Are black newspaper owners going to blackball Bill White?