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Several days ago, the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reported on Mayor White’s latest, greatest effort to make downtown world class: Houston is poised to provide a $9.6 million tax subsidy for an Embassy Suites downtown, part

Today’s Chron carries an op-ed by Asmara Tekle-Johnson and Hugh Rice Kelly on the Texas Medical Center’s power to condemn private property, and how it is using that power. Here’s an excerpt: The Texas Medical

KUHF-88.7’s Rod Rice has a story on a topic that seems altogether rare these days: government showing some initiative and getting something right. Here’s an excerpt: It is not a requirement in Harris County, but

Here is the headline and lede from Chronicle reporter Mike Snyder: City to repair whistleblower’s home Mayor Bill White has decided to spend $53,000 in local funds to repair the northwest Houston home of Marsha

KPRC-2’s Robert Arnold checked in last week with a report on possible uses for the decrepit Astrodome. County Judge Ed Emmett sounds realistic about the poor prospects of an Astrodome hotel these days, but suggested

Texas Watchdog reporter Rosanna Ruiz (formerly of the Chronicle) has posted her first story for the online news organization, on Mayor White’s recent effort to shield his calendar and certain correspondence from the public: Mayor

A reader emailed earlier asking if we knew why the Chron removed blogHOUSTON from the “Blogs we’ve linked to” section on the Chron.com editorial page. The reader claimed Dwight Silverman had not answered several email

KHOU-11’s Rosa Flores reports on more vandalism at METRO’s Park-and-Pillage lots: A vandal was at it again in Kingwood on Monday. Police say several cars were broken into at the Kingwood Park & Ride

Commenter kjb434 passed along an interesting Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins to us on red-light cameras, entitled “The war on short yellows.” As Jenkins notes, voters don’t much like red-light cameras, although pols