Commentary

IN A RECENT OP-ED, COUNCILMEMBER CLARENCE BRADFORD offered some smart suggestions for City of Houston budget planning and prioritization. The blog has given Bradford some grief over the years, so it’s only fair to call

KTRK-13 ran a news blurb last week indicating that METRO rail work on the East End had begun. The blurb did not report that METRO and the City will be closing 28 of 40 intersecting

LAST WEEK’S NEWS that food writer extraordinaire Robb Walsh was leaving the Houston Press prompted this prediction: We presume the tired corporate alt-weekly will take this “opportunity” to build on the Village Voice strategy of

CHRON.COM’S WHIMSICAL LINK BLOG box has been quiet for about a week now. That must mean that the only guy (apparently) in the Hearst empire who can update the thing is on vacation or otherwise

SLAMPO checks in on the latest antics of favorite councilmember Al(oysius) Hoang.

CORY CROW posts two perspectives on the Summit/Compaq Center sale (three, actually, counting his).

AMERICA’S WORST BIG CITY DAILY was forced to run a correction today after a joke* in MeMo‘s Star section missed the mark: AS April Fools’ Day approaches, we called psychologist Muriel Meicler to see if

ROUGHLY TWO WEEKS AGO, Bill White appointee Richard Celli resigned from the City of Houston’s Housing and Community Development Department (seemingly under pressure). Last week, Mayor Annise Parker quietly appointed former councilmember Ada Edwards to

KUHF’S JACK WILLIAMS runs an interesting perspective on the economic impact of sports stadiums: Andrew Zimbalist, a noted sports economist, says you can’t just plop a stadium downtown and expect the area around it to

KTRK-13 just reported that METRO, unlike some American transit agencies, will not be increasing security in response to the Russian bombings, but will be monitoring the situation closely. Two quick thoughts: 1) All those broken