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WELCOME to the “CB/LST alumni” edition of news and views: Texas State Sen. Rodney Ellis' firm profits from bond business with local public agencies, including many he represents in Austin (Jennifer Peebles and Steve Miller,

HERE is a lazy-weekend edition of news and views: Reimbursing HUD may cost Houston millions (Bradley Olson, Houston Chronicle) City officials characterized HUD’s challenges to its use of federal money as old news, but sources

IT’S just another Friday at a newspaper without enough editors: Hosuton Chronicle? Ummm… This is good too (from the FRONT PAGE of the little print edition): We think the right verb is “elicit” (hat tip

IT’S THURSDAY EVENING, and we thankfully haven’t been subpoenaed by anyone for exercising our First Amendment rights, so here’s a quick news and views roundup: Metro finally faces facts about its financial straits (Bill King,

THE DAILY DOSE of local news and views (99.95% guaranteed to offend some Sensitive, somewhere, for some reason): Cities and Democracy vs. Freedom (Houston Strategies) Some communities – like Portland or Austin – want to

TEXAS WATCHDOG reports tonight that several members of its staff have been subpoenaed by mega-rich trial lawyer and bigtime Texas political donor Steve Mostyn. Mostyn’s gambit — seemingly the filthy-rich-trial-lawyer version of a temper tantrum

IT’S THE GRAY TUESDAY edition of local news and views: Chron Arts Writer Sends 1,400-Word Email on How to Communicate Efficiently (Gawker) Words fail, so we’ll turn it over to Culture Map…. The CultureMap guide

IT’S a catchup edition of the news and views roundup after a weekend of travel: Harris County kicks in $2 million more in stadium bailout (Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle) As Cory Crow notes, the decision

CHRON.COM is now touting (not taunting*) the latest big weekend “exclusive” designed to get you to purchase the shrinking, declining print product: We think they meant “flouting” of rules, but whatever. Obviously, the White/Wolff/Wilson-era METRO’s

THE “fall is coming, really” news and views edition: Metro tied bonds to fare hikes in early ’10 (Michael Reed, Examiner News) More detailed, adult reporting on METRO finances. Reed and the Examiner have become