This is what quasi-governmental agencies with unelected officials do: The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted Thursday to give President and CEO Frank Wilson a raise. But they wouldn’t say how much. [snip] After the meeting,
Since the life-denying power of Houston hospitals has been a topic of discussion from time to time, it’s nice to see a story on the life-saving power of those hospitals. Here’s an excerpt from Eric
In the forum here, Neal Meyer comments on something that’s been bugging me for awhile now: public meetings. What good are they, really? We’ve all watched Metro go through the motions of public meetings, but
Yesterday Metro held a public meeting for its proposed North Corridor rail line, and not unlike the other proposed rail lines, there were protesters who are unhappy with Metro’s New and Improved Metro Solutions. Let’s
The city’s news outlets have all been covering the story of a possible serial killer in the Acres Homes area, but KHOU-11 posted a particularly informative report on Friday: During a press conference Friday authorities
On Friday, law-enforcement officers from several jurisdictions were involved in a high-speed chase that finally ended when officers took out the vehicle’s tires with a spike strip, and the vehicle eventually went off the road
The Chronicle‘s Lisa Gray reports that several landmark buildings in the Shepherd/River Oaks area have been placed on a local preservation group’s endangered list: Three Houston landmarks, including the Landmark River Oaks Theatre and the
The Editorial LiveJournalists today argue that great cities must have great symphony orchestras, lest we all lapse into sloth: To compete against movies, television, video games and other forms of popular entertainment, the Houston Symphony
The crew at Houstonist wants to buy readers a beer: We’re working under the assumption that you haven’t made plans for after work Wednesday, Aug. 2, yet (and that if you have, you’re about to
The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists, who never shy away from offering an opinion on constitutional law (and sometimes create new treaties!), today have decided that it’s wholly inappropriate for area Republicans to offer their opinion on