Subject: Carol Alvarado

• A Grassroots Effort

  February 13, 2007

• Re: Making the Banned

  September 26, 2006

• Egg Man

  September 13, 2006

• A Grassroots Effort

  February 13, 2007

• Curiouser and Curiouser

  Ex-congressman Stockman is labeled a co-conspirator in prescription fraud

  June 7, 2001

• Best Politician

  Carol Alvarado

  September 26, 2002

• Letters

  June 1, 1995

• The Insider

  February 19, 1998

• The Insider

  June 11, 1998

• A Child Shall Lead Them

  Plus: Barrio Ballots, The Art of Accounting, Trolley Volley

  January 2, 2003

• Smackdown at City Hall

  Candidates clash in a castaway district, exes attack, and Bell wringers rumble for a final round with Brown. Voters, pick your fight.

  October 25, 2001

• All I Want for Christmas Is...

  Some pols count blessings; others keep on running

  December 20, 2001

• Return of the Boogie Man

  Can the Texas Ten "MoveOn" without him?

  September 11, 2003

• Running Mates

  Michael and Nandy Berry are world-class charmers. But what's really behind those two smiles?

  August 28, 2003

• Buckle Up

  February 23, 2006

• Thai Xuan Village

  The city is handing out grants to spruce up apartments near Hobby Airport. Unfortunately, a group of dilapidated Vietnamese condo units don't qualify

  March 29, 2007

• Irie iFest

  Finding the coolest runnings at this year's Jamaica-themed Houston International Festival

  April 20, 2006

• Got Your Health

  How much more can you cut?

  June 23, 2005

• Muchos Luchadores

  Mexican wrestlers take the ring in Angel Rodriguez-Diaz's new exhibit

  May 19, 2005

• An iFest Fan (and Former Music Programmer) Responds

  An open letter to Racket from Rick Mitchell, with Racket's reply

  April 28, 2005

• Do Not Enter

  Outside the gates of the Forbidden City

  January 13, 2005

• On Shaky Grounds

  HISD got more than it bargained for when it decided to develop the Fourth Ward

  December 30, 2004

• Ground Zero

  Houston's been the No. 1 city in America in the obesity crisis. But hype doesn't mean help.

  November 18, 2004

• The Mixmaster

  County Judge Bob Eckels, the Doc Ock of transportation, is busy planning more roads

  July 22, 2004

• Law? What Law?

  City Council proposed; City Hall didn't dispose

  July 1, 2004

• Double Bogey

  A young parks worker gets caught up in a contractor's sweetheart deal

  January 8, 2004

• Slipping into Darkness

  A lobbyist's last tango: politics, sex, drugs, death

  December 4, 2003

• A Little Jump to the Right

  Can a ballot triple shift win City Hall for the GOP?

  October 2, 2003

• Best Benefit to Living Downtown

  Sense of community

  September 25, 2003

• If He Could Turn Back Time...

  Sylvester Turner's second coming

  July 17, 2003

• Dueling Docs

  The city's top MDs collide, but the mayor sides with Shelley

  June 19, 2003

• Home from the War

  Midtown battles a plan to house vets

  March 20, 2003

• The Schmooze Returns to City Hall

  Facing an out-of-control council, Brown recalls a veteran vote saver

  December 12, 2002

• Oliver's Story

  Houston's former parks director tried to expand his résumé with a political job. He may have torched it instead.

  November 7, 2002

• Don't Rock My Boat!

  A port commission opening fuels a three-way Hispanic fight

  August 22, 2002

• Overdose

  Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

  August 22, 2002

• The War Within

  Mark Aguirre is an aggressive Houston cop who won civilian support by fighting crime. But the abrasive captain could lose his biggest battle: the one raging over him in HPD itself.

  June 27, 2002

• Draining the Main Vein

  Metro's plan to shut down NoDo's central nervous system has club workers begging for mercy

  June 6, 2002

• Going off the Rails

  A proposed line into the Bayport Industrial District has residents from Clear Lake to the East End vowing to stop the "toxic train" in its tracks

  April 18, 2002

• Best Politician

  Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

  September 20, 2001

• Cracking the Club

  Latinos find little sympathy from Commissioners Court

  August 30, 2001

• Cutting Through the Fog

  A heated debate in the back room of the City Council chambers

  August 16, 2001

• Brown's Diss-functional City Hall Family

  Drug testing and staff backstabbing have 'em dropping like flies

  March 22, 2001

• Back at the Trough

  The politics behind the new arena

  November 23, 2000

• Blowing Smoke

  December 26, 1996

• That Hyped Program To Fix Broadway Boulevard Apartments Didn't Fix Broadway Boulevard Apartments

  Photo courtesy GHCVB​Someone asked us the other day what happened to all that grant money that was supposed to renovate apartment complexes along Broadway Boulevard and give the area a much-needed face lift. He was driving down the street and said it looked like not a single property had been fixed up. He was right.  Turns out, one developer came in with a grant proposal for a Broadway complex -- the Woodlen Glen Apartments -- but the Glenbrook Valley Civic Club, led by retired school tea

  July 31, 2009