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Four Chronicle reporters update us on the impact of the big janitors strike today: The Service Employees International Union says 1,700 janitors are on strike, no longer picking up the trash, cleaning the toilets and

Matt Stiles reports that the DA’s office has asked Houston controller Annise Parker to begin an audit of all incentive bonuses handed out to city employees, because the bonuses could violate state law: At the

We’ve often noted the fact that Metro has done a great disservice to the public it supposedly serves by drastically cutting and altering bus routes over the past several years. Reason’s Out of Control blog

The Chron‘s Jeannie Kever has the fascinating story of how some folks from the Houston Zoo are aiding efforts to save endangered frogs in Panama from a fatal virus. Room service for frogs — what

The Chronicle‘s Alexis Grant reports that METRO is about to enter the local blogosphere: The Metropolitan Transit Authority is hoping for heavy traffic — to its blog. The agency plans to unveil a Web site

The Associated Press is running a story on Andy Kahan, director of the Mayor’s crime victims’ office. Kahan recently convinced the Texas Department of Public Safety to change a policy under which it removed names

The Chronicle‘s Eric Berger reports that “Lucy,” the famous fossil, will be visiting Houston next year: After four years of negotiations, officials with the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Ethiopia signed an agreement Tuesday