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Salaries soar at Harris County Housing Authority – Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle (11/20/2011) Harris County Housing Authority leaders have received steep salary increases and staggering bonuses in recent years, nearly tripling some executives’ pay since

Houston is poised to enact a new revenue stream which will regulate automotive repair shops: The Houston City Council is scheduled to consider a proposed ordinance to regulate the automotive repair and collision industry at

DA Pat Lykos launched examination of grand jury after ABC13 report – Ted Oberg, KTRK-13 News This all started the day after we broke the news a grand jury was investigating DA Pat Lykos’ office.

Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos: What investigator did is not an ‘investigation’ – Ted Oberg, KTRK-13 News Only after we told [DA Pat] Lykos what we learned today, she told us she didn’t order

Why Does the Sheriff’s Department Want to Censor Our Law Firm Website? – Steph Stradley Blog Ultimately, I am certain that running one of the busiest jails in the country isn’t easy. And at least,

An attentive reader called our attention to the page above from Friday’s Houston Chronicle (sometimes, there really is no substitute for the print edition). On the right side of the page, we have a story

Are Houston’s TV forecasters climate change skeptics? – Eric Berger, SciGuy/Chron.com This weekend the Chronicle ran a story I wrote on the Forecast the Facts campaign, a controversial initiative which essentially seeks to out TV

Last week Bill White pictured Rick Perry . . . – Unca Darrell [Former Mayor Bill] White … proposes “three simple actions” by which [Gov. Rick] Perry could restore his credibility with Texans. You can

An Example Of What’s Wrong With Journalism These Days – Lawrence Person’s Battleswarm Blog This Houston Chronicle piece by Joe Holley is an example of why so many people are dissatisfied with the job the

Harris County asst. attorney – ‘ethics watchdog for the county’ – urged judge to exercise leniency in Jerry Eversole case – Steve Miller, Texas Watchdog A letter to a federal judge from Harris County’s legal