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The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports today on Mayor White’s latest response to the massive underfunded liability in the municipal employees pension fund: Short of layoffs, the city won’t meet its full obligation to the municipal

The Chronicle‘s Maggie Galehouse reports that thieves have rendered one city landmark somewhat less than world class: The lights of Mecom Fountain, one of Houston’s showiest landmarks and a bright spot on the city’s grandest

Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William A Wolff have followed a March 2007 op-ed on crime with another op-ed on crime in today’s Chronicle. In this one, they advocate greater use of statistics and New

Mayor White and his rubber-stamp Council may not have any good answers regarding Houston’s surging crime or HPD’s manpower issues, but don’t let it be said they’re doing nothing. Just this week, they’ve cracked down

On Thursday, the Chronicle posted the following news from the Austin bureau’s Lisa Sandberg: Overall crime rates fell in Texas last year, although Houston’s rose slightly, marked by a spike in the number of homicides,