Hopefully, a transcript of this speech by Mayor White will be available tomorrow: In an appearance that should boost his environmental credentials, Mayor Bill White will join activist and lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on
Rick Casey uses the recent BP explosion to take a trip down memory lane, recounting a tale of OSHA violations by a Houston company headed by Erik K. Ho in the 1990s. Casey contends that
KTRK-13 is running an AP story about the increasing problem of traffic congestion in Texas. One congestion-reducing idea included in the story is Houston’s SAFEClear program: “The traffic on our freeways tends to move when
Chronicle editorial page editor and Platonic idealist James Howard Gibbons has another of his Editorial LiveJournals in today’s newspaper. Here’s a sample: The summer day had set in with its usual severity when I set
Some north Houston residents are not thrilled with the MetroRail’s proposed route through their neighborhood: The route would extend from downtown to Greenspoint Mall and beyond. But people along one section of the proposed line
Remember when Mayor White got approval to spend $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to have Proposition 2 declared illegal, even though Prop. 2 was passed with 56 percent of the vote? Well, the residents of one
I see the Chronicle is reporting HISD’s results from the second round of fifth-grade TAKS testing: Results released Friday by HISD show that 81 percent of fifth-graders have passed the math portion of the test
The Houston Emergency Center has been dealing with a new problem: An air conditioning problem at the Houston Emergency Center has at least one police officer concerned that dispatch calls could be delayed, Local 2
The weekend is upon us, and it’s time for a quick and easy (not to mention timely) food and drink roundup. Alison Cook does tapas at Rioja Spanish Tapas…and does them…and does them. Robb Walsh
Michael Reed of the West University Examiner reports that the fifty thousand or so drivers who use Kirby Dr. each day are in for a bit of change, come the end of the year: Sometime