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A most curious omission in the news

_@_ (Ubu Roi) — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:40:40 -0500

Friday afternoon, Rorschach, Royko, and I, plus who knows how many other blogHOUSTON regulars made our way, singly or in groups, to a little park near the George R. Brown Convention Center. Nary a hobo was in sight, but there were thousands of ot...

Stimulus money for local projects

_@_ (Anne Linehan) — Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:07:37 -0500

Hope everyone is having a great Independence Day weekend. The blogHOUSTON crew is still in slow-posting mode, but this caught my eye: The Chron's Carolyn Feibel writes on local road-building projects that are receiving stimulus funds: A little-k...

Mayor White: If HPOU wants more cadet classes, HPD officers can take a pay cut to pay for it

_@_ (Anne Linehan) — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:15:57 -0500

This is NOT senate-candidate White talking: Houston�s largest police union, citing the death of six officers during Mayor Bill White�s tenure, called on the mayor and City Council this week to hire more officers, restore $14 million in overtime pa...

Linkpost: 07/02/09

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:24:06 -0500

Here's our latest local blog reading. Enjoy! Annise Parker releases BARC clean up plan (Lose an Eye, it's a Sport) Mayoral candidate Annise Parker tries to grab the BARC issue. Annise Parker was NOT on the Mayor's Task Force (Noah's ...

Chron: Federal agents investigate Houston gun owners

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:53:50 -0500

The Chronicle ran an interesting story by Dane Schiller today that got priority treatment by Drudge for much of the day. Here is an excerpt: All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms ...

HPD overtime cut; HPOU head warns of more crime

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:35:56 -0500

KRIV-26's Isiah Carey reports that the city's new fiscal year began today, and that means the end of significant HPD overtime spending that helped mask the department's ongoing understaffing issues: And the head of the police union says it could a...

Linkpost: 06/30/09

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:14 -0500

We refuse to link to any blogs offering the non-news that Sylvester Turner isn't running for mayor (when we checked yesterday, he wasn't running either), but there are all sorts of other local blog goodness that you should click on. Pictures of B...

KTRK: Council tackles pressing problem of.... electronic signs?

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:01:58 -0500

KTRK-13's Miya Shay reports that your City Council today passed an ordinance to regulate the pressing problem of.... electronic signs. The ordinance could potentially affect schools and churches as well as businesses, but one busybody says that's ...

Council set to renew $11 million arts contract

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:08:38 -0500

The Chronicle's Bradley Olson reports that City Council is about to renew an $11 million contract with the Houston Arts Alliance, a local arts organization that has had its trouble delivering projects on time, not to mention providing a public acc...

City official who approved HASDC activities now auditing them

_@_ (Kevin Whited) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:52:52 -0500

In a flurry of reporting last week on the mysterious departure of Richard Vacar, Texas Watchdog reminded us of the city's ongoing review of the Houston Airport System Development Corp.: The mayor�s office announced a review last month of the Houst...