The Houston Business Journal‘s Christine Hall reports on several changes coming to the municipal channel currently seen on Houston cable television: The Municipal Channel, broadcasting on Comcast channel 16, has renamed itself HTV-Houston Television as
The editorial board of the Hearst-owned San Antonio Express-News takes aim at one Borris Miles over his shooting incident and opposition to recent “Castle doctrine” legislation: The Senate passed the new law by a vote
As the Chronicle reported yesterday, Houston has officially moved to electronic campaign finance reporting for municipal elections (thanks in large part to one Chronicle reporter’s efforts to move the city into the computer age). Today,
Anne Maria Kilday and Matt Stiles have the story for the Chronicle: The federal government will boost anti-terrorism funding for the Houston area this year by about 50 percent, providing $25 million locally, officials were
It is sales tax-reporting time: As part of the July disbursement of sales tax allocations, Houston received $36.3 million, up from $34.85 million a year ago — a 4.1 percent increase. But Sugar Land saw
KTRK’s Mike McGuff scored a lengthy interview with Chronicle columnist (and future KILE radio personality) Ken Hoffman, and has posted it to his blog. Hoffman carries on about local TV weathermen, his new radio show,
Kristen Mack’s Friday column was an entertaining read. Although a friend of ours is right to suggest the lede could use some editing (newspaper columns really should not begin with contractions), the conclusion sounded familiar:
The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee reports that diversity is somewhat lacking at METRO, but that President and CEO Frank Wilson is working on the problem: In 2005, the most recent estimate available, Hispanics made up 30
Claudia Feldman has written a piece today for the Chron, listing the Chronicle‘s picks for Houston’s Seven Wonders: The Astrodome, 8400 Kirby Beer Can House, 222 Malone Houston Ship Channel Interstate 10 and Beltway 8
This doesn’t happen very often, but things might be a little slow around here, as Kevin is already off on a (long) weekend adventure, and I’ll soon be heading off on a (long) weekend adventure.