Daily Archives: September 18, 2007

Food fight upcoming

The Chron has another article on the upcoming City Council food fight over airport concessions. Mayor Bill White called the food service at Bush Intercontinental Airport’s Terminal C inferior to that of other airports and said the fastest way to … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Local politics | Comments Off on Food fight upcoming

HISD bond proposal changes: Too little, too late?

HISD has announced it will make changes to its bond proposal in response to community feedback. The question is, will that be enough? The concessions include renovating, rather than replacing, a few campuses and abandoning plans to create prekindergarten- through … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Election 2007 | Comments Off on HISD bond proposal changes: Too little, too late?

State Rep. Fred Hill will not seek re-election

This is a surprise – State Rep. Fred Hill, who a few months ago had announced his candidacy for House Speaker, has decided to retire instead. This is bad news on a couple of levels: Hill had developed into a … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in That's our Lege | 1 Comment

Preservation: It isn’t just for Houston

Bad preservation news, I’m sad to say, is everywhere: The town of Denison is about to raze one of the grandest old buildings in North Texas reportedly to clear the way for a Walgreens. It doesn’t take a history geek … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in The great state of Texas | Comments Off on Preservation: It isn’t just for Houston

S-CHIP is back

Congress will try again to pass an S-CHIP bill that can make it past the President, one way or another. Senate and House negotiators said Sunday that they had agreed on a framework for a compromise bill that would provide … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Budget ballyhoo | Comments Off on S-CHIP is back

Rail on Westheimer?

Rad Sallee points me to this interesting website that makes the case for the Universities line to be built on Westheimer instead of Richmond or Westpark. I’m not sure what the point is of bringing out such a website this … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | 2 Comments

Miya steps on toes

Miya Shay connects a few dots in the airport concessions food fight, and calls out one of the principles for calling her out: Seems like Jason Yoo is not too happy with the recent coverage by the Chronicle and this … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Local politics | 1 Comment

Texas blog roundup for the week of September 17

Another week, another roundup. You know the drill, so click on for more. Continue reading

Posted in Blog stuff | Comments Off on Texas blog roundup for the week of September 17