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KHOU-11 reports that the City will be adding more parking meters around town, starting this fall: The areas for the meters are east of downtown near the Museum District, Hermann Park, the Arts Warehouse District

THE CHRON HOUSTON POLITICS BLOG posts the latest on METRO’s ongoing “Buy America” problems.

METRO’S bloated PR department has lashed out at the Houston Press over Paul Knight’s fine print story about the rogue agency’s behavior in recent years. The Press posts the METRO letter and Knight’s capable rebuttal

CORY CROW highlights (lowlights?) the latest odd editorializing from America’s Worst Big City Daily.

YESTERDAY, THE CHRONICLE reported that Council would consider temporarily tightening the city’s property-use regulations, “long maligned as overly deferential to developers” (as the Chron lede characterized* the matter). The “temporary” tightening would go into effect

SWAMPLOT calls our attention to the news that any tar balls found along Texas shores at this point are almost certainly not from BP’s ongoing offshore environmental disaster.

CLEAR THINKER TOM KIRKENDALL comments on a New York Times piece on the government tactic of obfuscation, which frequently is used to hide/obscure the true cost of promises made today for benefits tomorrow. Kirkendall cites

KPRC-2 reports on the City’s shameful efforts to defend the recent water-rate hike by way of a pre-emptive lawsuit away from Houston: Former Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt said he takes issue with the

THE CHRON.COM HEADLINE on the “new” METRO settlement with Lloyd Kelley is succinct: Metro: Open-records suit settled, but secret for now How’s that for transparency and accountability? Reporter Renee C. Lee did determine that METRO

AS UBU ROI notes in the comments, the City’s drainage fee is back. Or a big tax increase (as Bill King notes at the end of the story). Or whatever euphemism one prefers for a