KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey broke a story last night on a HUD audit of a City of Houston housing program: The audit is best described as explosive. It targets the City of Houston’s Housing Department. It
A sign of the times (via HBJ): During the month, the state collected $1.58 billion in sales tax revenue, 3.8 percent less than in March 2008. In February, sales tax revenue was down 2.6 percent
Craig Malisow continues his diligent reporting for the Houston Press on the deplorable conditions at BARC. Here is the lede from today’s post: A faulty anesthesia machine, a dog that nearly escaped during euthanasia, poor
Richard Connelly, who once had a serious media-criticism column for the Houston Press, lately has been reduced to lamenting all the conservative talk on KTRH-740 on the publication’s Hair Balls blog (as an aside, some
KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel has been examining what METRO is telling the public about the costs of rail expansion versus what METRO is telling the federal government about the costs of rail expansion, and — shock!
Today’s Chronicle has a feature by Matt Stiles on state Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston. Here’s an excerpt: If he were a baseball player, state Sen. Rodney Ellis would be flirting with the Mendoza Line,
The County Seat blog updates us on the activities of Chronicle metro/state/teen diarist Lisa Falkenberg, who apparently spoke recently to the grownups at a Democratic Party event that reportedly later involved serious discussion about candidates
A commenter on the Chron’s reader rep blog (an oxymoron in its current form) offers this: The only things I have noticed since the Chronicle’s re-organization are: 1) The blogs are updated less frequently 2)
Chron.com reports that METRO is unveiling a Park and Pillage, er, Ride, in Pasadena on Monday: The city of Pasadena does not contribute sales tax revenue to Metro, so Harris County is using federal transportation
KTRK-13 reports that local electricity provider Gexa Energy suffered a security breach that compromised personal information of customers: If you are a customer of Gexa Energy, your personal information may have been compromised. The personal