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METRO’S EXPENSIVE BLOGGER cheers the METRO police department’s recognition as a “prestigious ‘Flagship Agency.’” She did not include Tom Bazan’s classic snapshot of a METRO police officer snoozing in her car during work hours. UPDATE:

HOUSTON is somewhat unique in that it has long maintained a Crime Victims Assistance unit as a branch of the mayor’s office. KTRK-13’s Andy Cerota follows up on earlier reporting that current Mayor Annise Parker

THE MIGHTY WIZARD posts a very informative roundup of recent events concerning METRO.

CORY CROW links to this KTRK-13 story on an interest group’s proposed drainage tax, noting properly that “it’s not a drainage plan, it’s a funding plan with the promise that, if passed, a plan will

THE EDITORIAL BOARD at America’s worst big-city daily weighed in today on the HISD story that Texas Watchdog reported on 20 July, and their own newspaper finally covered on 27 July. Way to stay timely,

Judging by the amount of media coverage in the three weeks we’ve been on hiatus, apparently the only significant news we missed was the corpse flower. In all seriousness, why do Houston news organizations do

THE BLOG will be on hiatus for a short time due to a personal matter. Please feel free to discuss any newsworthy items in the forum!

THE CHRONICLE reports* that former Mayor Bill White’s prized SAFEclear program just cost the city about $4.2 million. To quote Cory Crow, that would be the same “program that was touted as being revenue neutral

HERE’S A QUICK ROUNDUP of news tidbits that caught my eye after the too-short vacation. Councilmember Jarvis Johnson told police he didn’t pull over immediately a few nights ago when he was arrested because he