Carol Alvarado

A Grassroots Effort

Re: Making the Banned

Egg Man

A Grassroots Effort

Curiouser and Curiouser

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

Best Politician

Carol Alvarado

Letters

Carol Alvarado

The Insider

Carol Alvarado

The Insider

Carol Alvarado

A Child Shall Lead Them

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

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.

All I Want for Christmas Is...

Some pols count blessings; others keep on running

Return of the Boogie Man

Can the Texas Ten "MoveOn" without him?

Running Mates

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

Buckle Up

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

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

Irie iFest

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

Got Your Health

How much more can you cut?

Muchos Luchadores

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

An iFest Fan (and Former Music Programmer) Responds

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

Do Not Enter

Outside the gates of the Forbidden City

On Shaky Grounds

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

Ground Zero

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

The Mixmaster

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

Law? What Law?

City Council proposed; City Hall didn't dispose

Double Bogey

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

Slipping into Darkness

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

A Little Jump to the Right

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

Best Benefit to Living Downtown

Sense of community

If He Could Turn Back Time...

Sylvester Turner's second coming

Dueling Docs

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

Home from the War

Midtown battles a plan to house vets

The Schmooze Returns to City Hall

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

Oliver's Story

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

Don't Rock My Boat!

A port commission opening fuels a three-way Hispanic fight

Overdose

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

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.

Draining the Main Vein

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

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

Best Politician

Gabriel Vasquez, Houston city councilmember, District H

Cracking the Club

Latinos find little sympathy from Commissioners Court

Cutting Through the Fog

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

Brown's Diss-functional City Hall Family

Drug testing and staff backstabbing have 'em dropping like flies

Back at the Trough

The politics behind the new arena

Blowing Smoke

The politics behind the new arena

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 fixe ... More >>

Hitting the Bricks

Preservationists try to keep the pavers from a Fourth Ward legacy -- brick streets

Jessica Tata: Legislature Acts to Help Increase Daycare Inspections

Jessica Tata spurs lege to act​Blink once and you might have missed state rep Carol Alvarado's bill in the House Urban Affairs last week that offered at least one more stopgap measure to prevent the West Houston daycare fire that took the lives of four small children. Former day care operator ... More >>

Jesse James Alred: Raunchy Texts to Local Politico Land Former HISD Teacher In Jail

Examiner.comJesse Alred: Says he was too distracted to finish his book.​A former Milby High School teacher was arrested Saturday. Police say that Jesse James Alred, 50, repeatedly sent raunchy text messages to Texas State Representative Carol Alvarado. Alred has been charged with misdemeanor ... More >>