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KHOU-11’S MARK GREENBLATT reports that METRO, when faced with declining sales tax estimates that might have jeopardized its application for federal funding to build more glorified streetcars down busy streets, simply provided the feds with

THE COUNTY SEAT comments on “the political red light district that has built up within the organization of the Harris County Republican Party.”

MAYOR ANNISE PARKER yesterday announced her choice to head the Houston Airport System: Mario C. Diaz, who comes to Houston from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, where he served as deputy general manager. Before that, Diaz worked

SLAMPO addresses Bill White’s Big Dropout Problem.

OUR FRIENDS IN WEST U apparently have decided to try The Houston Way on for size. Sort of. The Houston Way tends to be a little more subtle, and only to smell years later.

THE CHRONICLE’S CHRIS MORAN revisits the topic of the moneypit once called the Eight Wonder of the World, reporting that the soccer stadium deal to be taken up by Commissioners Court today includes a redevelopment

CHRON.COM posts that Texas Children’s Hospital is building a bridge that will require closing a part of Fannin this weekend. Apparently, this will shut down the entire Main Street streetcar line that METRO has, at

WE’VE GROWN USED TO POLITICIANS (and their consultants) abusing the language, but two current news items are still good enough for a laugh. We have the recent announcement (from the Begala/McGrath consulting firm) that Mattress

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER has posted a story detailing the ridiculous car allowances provided to various senior METRO officials. The widespread, exorbitant car allowances at a transit organization are bad enough, but they are even

KPRC-2 is reporting that METRO’s offices were raided by officials from the Harris County District Attorney’s investigators today, apparently to collect information related to Shreddergate. In other negative news, a METRO bus and SUV collided