Various media outlets are reporting that a jury has acquitted former Rockets star and broadcaster Calvin Murphy of all charges accusing him of sexual abuse. It took jurors just over two hours to reach their
Metro’s late-night, weekend light rail service is in the news: Metro is reviewing whether to continue late rail service on Friday and Saturday nights. The extended weekend hours began in June at the request of
Clay Robison penned an unintentionally amusing column about Governor Rick Perry today. By the usual weekend editorial standards of the hyperpartisan Austin news bureau chief, it was relatively tame stuff, much less incendiary than his
Chronicle transportation columnist Lucas Wall notes that the city is still having problems maintaining its downtown traffic/pedestrian signals: The public works department, citing Houston’s financial woes, still doesn’t have a comprehensive system for maintaining traffic
KHOU-11 is reporting that ChevronTexaco is donating $1 million toward HISD’s high school dropout prevention efforts: ChevronTexaco will help increase the number of Houston students graduating from high school with a $500,000 donation to HISD
With the utterly unconvincing “criticism” of Tilman Fertitta appearing as a house editorial a few days ago, the Chronicle can get right back to unabashedly promoting the playpen of one of the darlings of the
Today’s Chronicle has an editorial addressing prenatal care in Houston: As the Chronicle’s Melanie Markley reported last week, the combination of inaccessible preventive health services and rising infant mortality rates has local health providers worried.
Who would have guessed an explosion in H-town would attract the attention of the big boys? It’s good that Reynolds is on terror alert for our city, I guess. But it’s better that it prompted
I’m cleaning up some old links and bookmarks, and ran across a feature on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) that ran in the Fort Bend/Southwest Sun after DeLay paid a visit to the Fort
A statue of former President Bush (41) was unveiled yesterday. According to KHOU-11, the statue was a surprise for Bush: The George Bush Presidential Monument at Preston and Main was a well-kept secret from the