Chris Baker, our old friend and the Twin Cities’ hottest talker, passes along this interesting bit of news from his new home: Drivers nabbed by the now-outlawed photo-cop red-light enforcement program in Minneapolis will get
Houston’s other big Greek Orthodox Church is putting on its Greek Festival this weekend. If you’re in West Houston, be sure to check it out. Apparently there will even be a gyro-eating contest. In our
KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire has a story about how difficult one man has found it to get his guide dog’s license renewed every year. This prompted Mayor White to send a memo to all city departments:
The Chron’s Jennifer Friedberg reports that the Kirby Drive expansion has run into a problem: A design error could set back the start date for half of Segment 4 from Bissonnet to U.S. 59 by
Just what we need — crazy ants that are hard to kill: In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading
Yesterday, Mayor White rolled out his proposed 2009 budget: Mayor Bill White unveiled a record $4 billion budget proposal Tuesday, calling for a sharp increase in spending on public safety while cutting the property tax
Mayor White backs an exemption that would allow the Houston Pavilions to have bigger, brighter signs than current rules allow: Downtown boosters want the city to relax its sign rules for the Houston Pavilions, a
HPD has looked at its budget numbers and determined it needs to cut back on overtime until the end of the fiscal year: The temporary reduction amounts to slightly less than 10 percent of the
Matt Stiles continues investigating slum-like apartment buildings, and he found another one with a high-profile owner: Code enforcement inspectors have issued three misdemeanor citations against Justice of the Peace Jim Richard of Sugar Land, alleging
KHOU-11 reports that the City of Houston will decide whether or not to allocate $150,000 to defend Chief Hurtt’s no facial hair policy: The case centers around four Houston police officers who filed a federal