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Today’s news and views roundup comes late…. Major ReNew Houston/Prop 1 Contributor Steps in it – Again (Big Jolly Politics) Conflict of Interest on Red Light Cameras (Ed Schipul, Chron.com) City of Houston shopping for

The first two days of early voting are done, and the Big Story so far, if we follow the Lazy MSM Narrative ™, is that a bunch of thug pollwatchers from a local Tea Party

A nasty head cold derailed yesterday’s news and views roundup, but we’re turning the corner today: Houston’s drainage fee campaign largely funded by engineers (Gabe Gutierrez, KHOU-11 News) The headline did not add, one of

The Chron Houston Politics blog passes along today’s press-release news that the Texas Democratic Party has amended its lawsuit against the Green Party to include local grassroots tea-party group King Street Patriots. The King Street

It’s the two-week-vacation catchup edition of the roundup: City officials seem dismissive in Heights Walmart e-mails (Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle) What, folks expect professionalism and objectivity from their ostensibly technocratic city departments? As we’ve detailed

THE LITTLE BLOG is going on vacation for a couple of weeks. Unlike earlier this summer, it’s an actual vacation. Feel free to discuss local news of note in the open-comments section of the forum.

HERE is the day’s news and views roundup (the “on-the-cusp-of-a-vacation” edition): Metro's Greanias Forcing His Top Execs To Take The Bus Or Rail (Hair Balls) We’ve LONG criticized the arrogance and waste of so many

WELCOME to the “CB/LST alumni” edition of news and views: Texas State Sen. Rodney Ellis' firm profits from bond business with local public agencies, including many he represents in Austin (Jennifer Peebles and Steve Miller,

HERE is a lazy-weekend edition of news and views: Reimbursing HUD may cost Houston millions (Bradley Olson, Houston Chronicle) City officials characterized HUD’s challenges to its use of federal money as old news, but sources

IT’S just another Friday at a newspaper without enough editors: Hosuton Chronicle? Ummm… This is good too (from the FRONT PAGE of the little print edition): We think the right verb is “elicit” (hat tip