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KPRC-2 has a story posted about how METRO's "Three Strikes, You're Out" rule for bus drivers is just more hot air from the transit agency that could power its own wind farm: Motorists report...

Metro's sleight-of-hand (Houston's Clear Thinkers) Chronically Asinine (Lone Star Times) What's $10 Million among friends? (Lose an Eye, It's a Sport) Missing the point... (PubliusT...

Earlier in the week, both KUHF-88.7 and the Chronicle reported that University of Houston-Downtown officials would like to change the institution's name. Some ideas that have been tossed out include H...

KHOU-11's Lee McGuire reports on a drainage-fund proposal developed by Councilmember Khan and supported by Mayor White: A plan to create a special fund in the cityÂ’s budget to act as like a detent...

This curious blurb appeared on KHOU-11's website yesterday: Houston City Council approved a proposal to upgrade the lighting beneath the Pierce Elevated parking garage. They plan to spend almost half ...

Richard Vacar, who has been a proponent of an expensive renovation and expansion of Bush Intercontinental Airport despite significant planned capacity reduction by airlines, today is given a platform ...

Some new residents in Spring have just discovered what many of us have been railing against for a while now: The Grand Parkway F-2 segment is going to require the demolition of many homes (via the Ch...

Journalist Trent Seibert passes along word today that his new watchdog/news group Texas Watchdog is now up and running. Seibert is joined initially by former Dallas Observer staffer Matt Pulle. Texas ...

Consultant/advocate John Keeling, who's never seen a boondoggle that didn't merit a glowing feasibility study (so long as clients were paying), makes an appearance in a recent Nancy Sarnoff report for...

An interesting post on a Harris County Democratic Party site indicates that the local Dems are working with the local sorta-professional soccer franchise to raise money for the party: On Sunday, Septe...