Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Houston Leadership Vacuum: Of Parklets and S'MORES!

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(Note: I found this while looking at the Pinboard feed of PubliusTX) So this is a real thing: Houston's first official "parklet...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Houston Leadership Vacuum: 20,000 criminal cases not investigated in 2013, revenue cap to be blamed.

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The old adage in politics, attributed to Rahm Emanuel, is that you never let a serious crisis go to waste. Since first uttering these words...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Kayaking Houston's Bayous: Good idea, shoddy reasoning.

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Today the New Mrs. White waxed poetic about the increasing trend of kayaking Houston's bayou system. Our Bayous. Mrs. White, ChronBl...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Houston's New Urbanists cry foul. Angry that New Urbanism is happening in the wrong places.

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As a start, I like urban development and I think Houston should have more of it. I especially like urban development when coupled with a rob...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Houston's White Whale

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It's a sad time in Houston as the city was omitted from consideration by USA Today as America's Best Convention City. Despite amaz...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Why do Newspapers still pen endorsements?

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It's endorsement season, that mystical time when newspaper editorial boards across the land feel an undying need to 'educate' vo...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Sky is Falling! (Psst, and so is our paywall *Temporarily*)

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Posted under the Orange Box News items: Weather Alerts! on the front page of Chron.com was this nugget: Access HoustonChronicle.com/E-edi...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Houston Bicycling: You can't fix a problem when no one accepts their part of the blame.

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Three people died in hit-and-run accidents involving motor vehicles and bicycles over a 45-day span in Houston and that's got those of a...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Houston: An unevenly regulated mess whose elected leaders have forgotten basic services

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On a recent business trip to Denver the rental car company messed up and assigned me a minivan with no GPS system to guide me around town. A...
Friday, December 06, 2013

Quick Houston Aside: Perhaps the problem lies not with the masses, but with the mass transportation itself?

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I found today's story by ChronBlog Transportation reporter Dug Begley (hidden behind the Chron's pay wall) to be interesting solely ...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Why Government doesn't always work (St. Thomas Example)

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Having spent the last week in "Paradise" (more on that in a future post) I'm now back firmly in the lower 48 and, after catchi...
Monday, October 05, 2009

At least they didn't spike themselves

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That's the new upside for the Raiders , the new benchmark for NFL futility now that the Lions are off the schneid. Not surprisingly, Chr...