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THE CHRON EDITORIAL BOARD took on the issue of predatory lending in a recent editorial. As Matt Bramanti pointed out to us, their main example of the evil Big Banking interests in action is…. lattes,

VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS report that the Parker Administration is planning large increases in water/sewer rates to offset ongoing deficits in the city’s Combined Utility System. The Chronicle ran this telling exchange: Councilman Oliver Pennington asked

KPRC-2 investigated City of Houston pothole repair and discovered…. more potholes are repaired in west Houston than any other part of the city. They also discovered that more potholes are reported to 311 in west

TEXAS WATCHDOG has been busy today. Steve Miller has broken an important story on voter fraud in south Texas. Obviously, that’s a bit outside our usual coverage area, but we thought it would be helpful

BELATED CONGRATS GO OUT TO THE KHOU-11 DEFENDERS for winning a Peabody award for their work on the Texas National Guard. As Mike McGuff wrote nearly a week ago, this is a really big deal!

THE BLOGHOUSTON CREW unplugged and fully enjoyed this beautiful weekend…. Thankfully, two bloggers whose posts regularly exceed the quality of the output from the Chron‘s paid metro/state columnists put out some good stuff. In particular….

ONE REASON we don’t take some MSM journos seriously when they engage in “fact-checking” and “analysis” is that too often the end product just appears to be editorializing posing as something more objective. Quaintly (it

IN A RECENT OP-ED, COUNCILMEMBER CLARENCE BRADFORD offered some smart suggestions for City of Houston budget planning and prioritization. The blog has given Bradford some grief over the years, so it’s only fair to call

KTRK-13 ran a news blurb last week indicating that METRO rail work on the East End had begun. The blurb did not report that METRO and the City will be closing 28 of 40 intersecting

LAST WEEK’S NEWS that food writer extraordinaire Robb Walsh was leaving the Houston Press prompted this prediction: We presume the tired corporate alt-weekly will take this “opportunity” to build on the Village Voice strategy of