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Kristen Mack reports on the latest idea to help developers of the Astrodome Hotel get financing for the boondoggle: Sen. Kyle Janek, R-Houston, amended a House bill to qualify the project for hotel and sales

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel ran a story yesterday that will probably get him a scolding phone call or two from the usual downtown booster types. Here are some choice excerpts: There was a time Main Street

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports on an unusual protest that took place downtown yesterday and forced a (temporary) suspension of a previously approved change in security screening of airport cab drivers: Mayor Bill White held

KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey has an interesting post up about community activists allegedly arranging media coverage for their constituents/clients — for a few grand a pop. Here’s Carey’s advice to anyone approached by a community activist/shakedown

KPRC-2 reports on five brazen smash-and-grab burglaries that occurred overnight: Five southwest Houston restaurants were broken into within a 30-minute span early Monday, officials told KPRC Local 2. Houston police said a Hispanic man broke