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The blog is likely to be quiet over the next few days. We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving break with plenty of quality time with family and friends.

Here’s a final pre-Turkey Day roundup: Movie studio plan for Dome still lives (Chron Houston Politics) Are we STILL doing this? Blow the thing up and turn it into a parking lot already. Controversy bubbling

Time to clear out the weekend links: Ex-Port VP’s severance raises eyebrows (Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle) Clearly, this is an organization that desperately needs some oversight (and maybe more media coverage). HUD probe forces projects

A NEW ROUND OF METRO SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS: If you have any interest in giving METRO your opinion on the proposed “improvements,” December 1st at noon is your time. If you can’t be at METRO’s under-utilized

IRRITATING ATTITUDE OF THOSE WHO HAVE TAX DOLLARS AT THEIR DISPOSAL: Sports Authority Chairman J. Kent Friedman on having to use reserves to cover a debt payment: “It doesn’t cause me any concern at all,”

It’s your Thursday night edition of news and views: Parker loses fight to appoint union leader to port authority (Bradley Olson, Houston Chronicle) The sense of entitlement from all parties was off-putting, but Mayor Parker’s

The seemingly unfocused Parker Administration hits political turbulence in today’s edition of news and views: Radiation in Houston’s tap water, long history of contamination (Mark Greenblatt, KHOU-11 News) That old Chris Bell/Dan Jones plan to

It’s your “busybodies, fibbers, and hypocrites” edition of news and views: Few come to UH summit offering tools to fight bullying (Safiya Ravat, Houston Chronicle) Could it be that this “problem” really wasn’t such a

A friend requested we do SOMETHING to get that Chron.com “unicorn vomit” Disney screen to scroll down the page, so here’s a weekend roundup: Company: Houston red light cameras to go dark on Monday (Andy

WHERE HOUSTON LIVES* may not yet be A Place Called Perfect, but, well, we’ll just let this screencap from yesterday speak for itself: * Chron.com’s nifty little motto.