The Chronicle reports that the city’s bikeway plan is about to get an update: With continuing construction by the Texas Department of Transportation on three bike trails in the Heights, west Houston and the Texas
Over the weekend, the Chronicle used one of its two house editorials to question the recent revisions to the city’s parking ordinance: Although the measure sailed through council without opposition, the Chronicle’s Bradley Olson and
Back in December, Swamplot reported that Weingarten’s new project at the site of the old River Oaks Shopping Center had run into a little problem: Apparently some of the new construction violated certain setback provisions.
The Chron corrections page recently noted the following: The capiton of a photograph that ran on B4 of Thursday’s paper misspelled the name of philanthropist Harry Bovay. Will there be a correction noting the misspelled
After Hurricane Ike, Mayor White unveiled a new program called “Million Trees + Houston.” I haven’t heard anything about it since then, but KUHF-88.7 has a nice story on the Harris County Flood Control District’s
Texas Watchdog, the relatively new local watchdog group, is planning to host a blogger/citizen-journalist/activist meetup of sorts at the Stag’s Head Pub at 2:00 pm on January 17. Here’s a blurb from their earlier blog-post
From the Department of Conflicting Messages comes this report by KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan on downtown crime. On the one hand, downtown sounds a little scary: A Houston security guard said he was making his rounds
The Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reports that Mayor White and his Council today took on the pressing matter of … downtown parking meter limits: Bolstered by an update to Houston parking laws that sailed through City
Tom Kirkendall noticed something interesting in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent Skilling decision: The Court clearly is not impressed by the objectivity of the Houston Chronicle, citing the newspaper’s highly inflammatory coverage of
The Chronicle‘s reader representative has resurfaced in 2009, and offers this look into the inner workings of the newspaper’s Star section, courtesy of a reader email and the reader rep’s followup: Sent: Sunday, January 04,