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LAST WEEK, KHOU-11’S MARK GREENBLATT reported some disturbing news about a METRO application for federal funding for its rail lines. METRO, according to Greenblatt, submitted overly optimistic economic projections to the transit organization, when more

MURRAY NEWMAN recreates *ahem* a conversation between Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos and assistants Jim Leitner and Scott Durfee.

KHOU-11’s JEREMY DESEL reports that the case backlog at HPD’s beleaguered crime lab “is still out of control.”

AN EXECUTION is looming, so that means it’s time for a new Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy.

NEW AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS numbers are out, and as usual the picture isn’t pretty for the Houston Chronicle. America’s Worst Big City Daily posted a staggering 13.77% decline in daily circulation, and a 9.76%

THE MASSIVE WATER RATE INCREASES approved by Mayor Annise Parker and her Council have been touted by the administration as spreading the real costs of the water/sewer system to all users of the system —

THE CHRON’S JUNIOR METRO/STATE DIARIST LISA FALKENBERG surely surprised some readers (and perhaps some colleagues!) today with what was, so far as we can tell, the newspaper’s first reference to the ethical cloud that current

HAIR BALLS mocks the most recent efforts at spin coming from METRO’s bloated PR department.

THE EXAMINER’S MICHAEL REED reports that Frank Wilson is still METRO’s chief (for now) after the big board meeting today. The board also released the report commissioned by Wilson booster David Wolff. Unsurprisingly, the report