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NEW TEXAS WATCHDOGGER LYNN WALSH reports on HISD chief Terry Grier’s “state of the schools” talk, and the $80 price tag for what was described as a fundraiser. Here’s our quaint notion: “State Of” speeches

NOT-QUITE-RETIRED BLOGGER UNCA DARRELL mocks the Chron editorial board for the lesson they took from Scott Brown’s election.

THE CHRONICLE’S CHRIS MORAN writes about Steve Radack’s new $2.3 million soap box derby park. We are fairly green conservative types here at the little blog, and we like public parks, but I can’t come

THIS POST AND THE COMMENTS illustrate the ongoing amateurization of what was once a compelling alt-weekly better than anything we might compose tonight.

SLAMPO blogs about the new book from anti-death penalty crusader David Dow. If any professional publication in town had any sense, it would be paying this guy whatever he wants to write as many words

MURRAY NEWMAN blogs on the Vileness of Republican “activist” Terry Lowry. David Jennings has also blogged about Lowry. We’re curious how the folks competing to be HCRP chair feel about the vileness of Mr. Lowry.

CHARLES KUFFNER, one of 35 people who will shape the future of Texas according to Texas Monthly, restates his notion that you Texans* among our readership are undertaxed. A Future of higher taxes and greater

WILLIAM DYER blogs about the latest developments in the Sharon Keller judicial proceedings. The substantive posts at the Beldar Blog on this subject so far have treated the legal/judicial issues with much greater precision than

THE CHRONICLE’S PRIME PROPERTY BLOG had an interesting post just before Valentine’s Day on the Fannin Street “flower district,” long one of Houston’s cheapest places to pick up fresh flowers. Mike Snyder reports that where

CORY CROW notes an unscientific online poll about METRO that the Houston Business Journal posted for its readers: Houston Business Journal … asked readers if Metro eliminated fares, would they consider riding the bus? More