On Friday, KTRK-13’s Miya Shay posted news that Richard Vacar, the powerful head of the Houston Airport System, had retired, effective the day before. Bradley Olson followed up with a lengthy story on the “retirement”
In one of his last stories for the Chronicle, Alan Bernstein reports that mayoral candidate Roy Morales seems to have problems describing his experience accurately: Houston mayoral candidate Roy Morales told a group of voters
The Chronicle’s indispensable Metro columnist Rick Casey is unhappy because a local citizen ran for commissioner of Harris County Emergency Services District No. 9, and won the seat. Casey’s unhappiness stems from low election turnout,
News reaches us from the Hearst newspaper in San Francisco that HPD Chief Harold Hurtt is in the running for a position there: The field of candidates for San Francisco’s new police chief has been
Kyrie “Memo” O’Connor, the Chronicle‘s erratic features editor, recently offered this perspective on the Supreme Court vacancy: If Obama appoints a woman to the Supreme Court, everyone will be happy. Two-ninths of the court will
Via KHOU-11, one of the developers of Houston Pavilions is optimistic the project can attain 60% occupancy by this summer: Geoffrey Jones is the co-developer of Houston Pavilions. It’s a three block project near Dallas
On Monday, Texas Watchdog reported on the roadblocks they have faced recently in obtaining full ethics disclosure forms from city and county officials. Area officials have redacted information related to spouses reported on those forms.
Roughly four years ago, the Chron‘s transit columnist at the time was asked about downtown HOV/”Diamond” bus and carpool lanes, and basically told readers that the regulations are not enforced, and indeed would be nearly
On Monday, the Chronicle ran a followup on the Rivercrest street-closing issue (“Debate reopens over Rivercrest street closures“). In the story, reporter Bradley Olson notes that the debate continues over the closing of the street,
Yesterday, Unca Darrell posted the news that veteran political reporter Alan Bernstein will soon be leaving the Chronicle, to go to work for Sheriff Adrian Garcia. We’ve since confirmed the news with another knowledgeable source.