Commentary

MIKE MCGUFF explains why you might have had reception problems with Houston radio stations last weekend.

LIVE OAKS follows up on a couple of points in The Mighty Wizard’s recent post on METRO.

TEXAS LIBERAL concedes that those “non-partisan” claims from Houston Votes look a little bit shaky. That conclusion is so obvious that one may have to be a staffer for Texas Tribune to miss it.

SWAMPLOT reports that Mayor Parker and her Council nixed small jitneys today. Yellow Cab doesn’t especially like competition, you see, and as we’ve noted before, what Yellow Cab wants from Houston’s pols, it usually is

METRO’S EXPENSIVE BLOGGER cheers the METRO police department’s recognition as a “prestigious ‘Flagship Agency.’” She did not include Tom Bazan’s classic snapshot of a METRO police officer snoozing in her car during work hours. UPDATE:

HOUSTON is somewhat unique in that it has long maintained a Crime Victims Assistance unit as a branch of the mayor’s office. KTRK-13’s Andy Cerota follows up on earlier reporting that current Mayor Annise Parker

THE MIGHTY WIZARD posts a very informative roundup of recent events concerning METRO.

CORY CROW links to this KTRK-13 story on an interest group’s proposed drainage tax, noting properly that “it’s not a drainage plan, it’s a funding plan with the promise that, if passed, a plan will

THE EDITORIAL BOARD at America’s worst big-city daily weighed in today on the HISD story that Texas Watchdog reported on 20 July, and their own newspaper finally covered on 27 July. Way to stay timely,