Commentary

WE’VE GROWN USED TO POLITICIANS (and their consultants) abusing the language, but two current news items are still good enough for a laugh. We have the recent announcement (from the Begala/McGrath consulting firm) that Mattress

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER has posted a story detailing the ridiculous car allowances provided to various senior METRO officials. The widespread, exorbitant car allowances at a transit organization are bad enough, but they are even

KPRC-2 is reporting that METRO’s offices were raided by officials from the Harris County District Attorney’s investigators today, apparently to collect information related to Shreddergate. In other negative news, a METRO bus and SUV collided

THE CHRON EDITORIAL BOARD took on the issue of predatory lending in a recent editorial. As Matt Bramanti pointed out to us, their main example of the evil Big Banking interests in action is…. lattes,

VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS report that the Parker Administration is planning large increases in water/sewer rates to offset ongoing deficits in the city’s Combined Utility System. The Chronicle ran this telling exchange: Councilman Oliver Pennington asked

KPRC-2 investigated City of Houston pothole repair and discovered…. more potholes are repaired in west Houston than any other part of the city. They also discovered that more potholes are reported to 311 in west

TEXAS WATCHDOG has been busy today. Steve Miller has broken an important story on voter fraud in south Texas. Obviously, that’s a bit outside our usual coverage area, but we thought it would be helpful

BELATED CONGRATS GO OUT TO THE KHOU-11 DEFENDERS for winning a Peabody award for their work on the Texas National Guard. As Mike McGuff wrote nearly a week ago, this is a really big deal!

THE BLOGHOUSTON CREW unplugged and fully enjoyed this beautiful weekend…. Thankfully, two bloggers whose posts regularly exceed the quality of the output from the Chron‘s paid metro/state columnists put out some good stuff. In particular….

ONE REASON we don’t take some MSM journos seriously when they engage in “fact-checking” and “analysis” is that too often the end product just appears to be editorializing posing as something more objective. Quaintly (it