David Kaplan has an enlightening and entertaining article filled with predictions from Houston area business folks. Some of it’s serious: Dan Pickering, president, Pickering Energy Partners The city will enjoy a slowly improving economy. Employment
As promised in recent posts, the blogHOUSTON bloggers have been doing some brainstorming to come up with a list of suggestions to improve the Houston Chronicle — because this great city deserves a much better
Yesterday’s editorial page featured two fun house editorials. The first was a celebration of light rail’s first year in Houston, and praise for Metro in reducing accidents along the line. One expects no less from
The Chronicle editorializes today on Continental’s purchase of Boeing’s new 7E7 aircraft. The editorial is much weaker than the blog post that Tom Kirkendall wrote two days ago on the topic. It’s good to see
We’ve taken to referring to the Chronicle editorial page as a wasteland, for reasons described in this post (among others). Later, we’ll be offering up our 2005 suggestions for improving the city’s only newspaper (we’re
The Houston Architecture.Info Forum has an interesting discussion going about neighborhoods in the near southwest of Houston (and of other development more broadly). I added the website to the blogroll on the sidebar a while
In a Chronicle story by Ron Nissimov on the expansion progress at Bush Intercontinental and Hobby airports, there’s a bit of misinformation toward the end. Here’s the relevant part: Airport expansion became a talking point
The Dallas Morning News has another exclusive on the TAKS cheating scandal story: Houston’s Wesley Elementary may be the most celebrated school in Texas. When George W. Bush, running for governor in 1994, wanted to
We skipped the food and drink roundup last Thursday, with Christmas approaching. With a New Year’s weekend coming, this seems like the right time for a double dose of food and drink reviews. Robb Walsh
The state of Texas is scheduled to execute confessed murderer James Scott Porter on January 4, 2005. There still has been no installment of the Chron Eye For The Death Row Killer Guy devoted to