The Chronicle‘s Carolyn Feibel alerts us this morning to an interesting item on the City Council agenda. We’ll turn to the item first, then Feibel’s reporting: 21. ORDINANCE deappropriating $444,064.90 from the TIRZ Affordable Housing
The Chronicle‘s six-days-per-week Austin bureau chief and one-day-per-week lefty editorialist offered this snippet in his latest opinion column: Although a lifelong Republican of the traditional, country club genre (as opposed to the more-rabid social conservatives
Two months ago, without any mention in the media at all, Harris County bailed the City of Houston out of a bad deal by loaning it $118 million. As reported on the Chronicle’s website on
Yesterday Cory Crow highlighted a yet another great moment for METRO PD’s Chief Lambert: The Kingwood Park and Pillage was…pillaged: Commuters were in for a nasty surprise when they got off the bus at the
When last we checked in with KPRC-2’s Ask Amy, she was helping a wrongly ticketed red light runner clear her name. At that time, we noted the moral of the story was to call local
Mike McGuff and the Radio-Info boards both posted an interesting press release from Clear Channel, which we’ll post in its entirety and comment afterwards: Houston gets a Morning Cup of Joe and a Good Baker
The Chronicle has run another story on BARC, the city’s long-problematic animal shelter that hasn’t shown much improvement under our seemingly disinterested mayor. Here’s an excerpt, from the top of the story: In 2005, Mayor
We’re in the midst of an economic downturn. People are losing jobs and homes. The credit market is tight. And there is a great deal of uncertainty (malaise, even). Naturally, it’s time for the area’s
The Chronicle may be in the midst of its latest downsizing, but not everybody in the news biz is shrinking. Texas Watchdog, the local watchdog journalism outfit, is looking to add a metro reporter. Here’s
Matt Stiles passes along word via twitter that Terry Hayes, the Chronicle‘s “Cancer Diva” blogger, has passed away from the disease. Chron.com has posted the unfortunate news here. The Cancer Diva blog was a real