The Houston Business Journal reports: Greg Ortale will return to Houston on Dec. 3 as president and chief executive of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Ortale served as general manager and executive vice
Houston is installing signals that tell pedestrians how long they have to safely cross the street. In addition to promoting safety, it will save the city money according to a Chron Wrap Up story, but
The Associated Press reports that compliance with City of Houston legislation aimed at breeders is nonexistent: Three months after the city of Houston passed an ordinance requiring a permit to sell cats or dogs that
Given my recent travels, this KPRC-2 story from September caught my eye: Several air travelers have come home from their trips to find they cannot drive their cars, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. Houston police
The opening of a 4 October Chronicle story by Mike Snyder and Nancy Sarnoff on the fight over a proposed high-rise in an affluent neighborhood provides some entertainment: Two days after Mayor Bill White pledged
The Chronicle runs an op-ed by Roy Reynolds that takes aim at two candidates for City Council for being residents of Houston in name only. Here is an excerpt: It didn’t take long past the
As we noted earlier this summer, HPOU’s publication Badge & Gun ran an article by Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William A Wolff, who have been pushing for the adoption of CompStat, the statistical tool
We noted at the start of summer that a dark Mecom Fountain — and the fact that the city could manage neither to prevent the vandalism that darkened it or to effect repairs of the
KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan reports that the installation of downtown surveillance cameras will be complete by the end of this week: After a lot of red tape and a lot of talk about privacy, the day
Callie and I have returned from Greece just in time for the 41st annual Greek Festival (put on by Annunciation Orthodox Church). The Festival opens Thursday and continues through Sunday. It is consistently one of