Commentary

TOM KIRKENDALL posts that Tilman Fertitta’s “wild Landry’s ride continues.”

DEM BLOGGER CHARLES KUFFNER calls out the Texas GOP for possible copyright abuse involving a political video. We had no idea Kuffner had become such a copyright puritan, given his own abuse of copyright laws

The Chron’s editorial board has some suggestions, a wish list if you will, for Mayor-elect Annise Parker. Here are a couple of tidbits worth noting: The Houston Police Department’s layered command structure will allow the

SLAMPO notes that the campaign finance filings of newly elected District F carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang “make a mockery of the notion of ‘disclosure’ and hardly conform to the spirit of the law, much less

ACCORDING TO AN AP STORY, outgoing HPD Chief Harold Hurtt gives himself a grade of A- for his tenure in Houston. We liked Marc Campos’s take: “Of course, the Mayor-Elect’s grade is the only one

WHAT’S THE STATUS OF THE CITY’S SORELY NEEDED NEW EMERGENCY RADIO NETWORK? 2005: “It’s not a problem that’s going to be solved in one day. It will be over a period of years,” said Mayor

CITY OF HOUSTON TO HARRIS COUNTY: Never mind, we’ll sign the property tax collection contract. Thuggish behavior doesn’t play well when one is running for higher office.

THE BIG SPORTS NEWS IN RECENT DAYS is that Drayton McLane recently nearly sold the Astros. The Chron‘s Drayton PR (er, baseball) section didn’t break that big story, as John Royal notes: Oh, and EPIC

SLAMPO welcomes new carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang to District F.

CHRON BASEBALL WRITER JESUS ORTIZ had this odd graf in a recent blog post: A lot has happened since my last blog, and I have even been told by a loyal reader that somebody spread