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MIKE MCGUFF highlights the latest “improvements” coming from the Hearst Newspapers in Texas. Much like METRO’s “service improvements,” it’s probably safe to expect much less from the “improved” product. As has become the case when

THE CONSULTANT hired by David Wolff and limited in scope to deliver just the message Wolff wanted to hear about Frank Wilson cost METRO (us, really) just under $100,000, according to the Houston Politics blog.

VARIOUS MEDIA REPORTS continue to indicate that the end is nearing for METRO CEO Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson. Lisa Falkenberg’s most recent column for the Chronicle reports the sharpest criticism yet from Mayor Annise Parker

BECAUSE SLAMPO is temporarily unavailable, we feel obliged to bring you this Bob Stein update.

JESUS ORTIZ dons the pom poms for America’s Worst Big City Daily re the Dynamo Stadium boondoggle. Who ever saw that coming from that reporter or that newspaper? *eyeroll* BLOGVERSATION: Houston’s Clear Thinkers, Harris County

THE HOUSTON POLITICS BLOG reports that METRO chief Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson may finally be going away this Friday. Of course, the last time a journalist reported that Wilson could be gone on a Friday,

The good news about United’s deal to buy Continental: We will never again have to watch other newspapers blow away the Chron‘s pitiful coverage and analysis* of the hometown airline through the decision to sell

CORY CROW suggests that Houston “needs to get its pro-business, pro-jobs mojo back.”

THE TRANSIT ORGANIZATION in Dallas is sometimes touted by the local rail-everywhere crowd as a model for Houston, but as the Dallas Morning News reports today, financial woes have put the brakes on DART’s grand

ANDREA LUCIA AT KHOU-11 reports that the Houston Police Department is reducing the number of academy classes from seven per year to just two. More than likely it won’t be anytime soon that the citizens