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Employee Compensation

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Hunger Games Filmed in Appalachia, Music Recorded in Europe

    ​For most musicians who aren't playing in orchestras or as session musicians, a musicians' union is about as useful a roadie who can't lift anything over 20 pounds on doctor's orders. But, for the thousands of musicians who do work in the film, television and recording studio industry, they re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    HPD Kingwood Under Investigation for Alleged Overtime Abuses

    Bryan Bennett became the HPD Kingwood captain two years ago ​An anonymous source has chronicled to Hair Balls a recent history of overtime funding abuses by the Houston Police Department Kingwood Division. The first, according to the source, occurred on May 22 during a private benefit for Ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Joe Frank Garza: Pleads Guilty to Misusing Millions in Seized Drug Cash

    Joe Frank Garza, no relation to these guys​Joe Frank Garza, the Valley district attorney who for years has been loudly proclaiming his innocence on charges that he misused millions in seized drug money, changed his tune today. The Texas Attorney General's office, which has been prosecuting th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Feds Sue Kinder Morgan for $1 Million in Unpaid Overtime

    The Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Houston's Kinder Morgan that seeks more than $1 million in what it says is unpaid overtime owed to "4,500 current and former operators, technicians, maintenance workers, laborers and administrative nonexempt employees." Kinder Morgan provides serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    No Raises For HISD Employees

    That paycheck ain't changing next year​There won't be any raises for employees of the Houston ISD the next school year.Houston ISD trustees adopted a 2010-11 budget totaling  $1.613 billion Thursday night that Chief Financial Officer Melinda Garrett termed  a "survival" budget, adding th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Hey Houston!! You're Getting A Raise!! (Well, Some Of You Are)

    ​There's startling news out of a new survey by Hewitt Associates, a national human-resources firm: People are getting raises.In this day and age! Not only that, but Houston is at the top of the pack for this strange, more or less unheard-of phenomenon.Hewitt's survey shows that Houston workers can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    This Year's Rodeo Scandal: Diversity, Or The Lack Thereof. With Dueling Memos!

    This year's rodeo brouhaha -- there usually is one -- surrounds the alleged lack of diversity of the event's staff, vendors and performers.State Sen. Mario Gallegos has filed a bill calling on the rodeo to open its books and get better about being inclusionary; local ctivist ben Mendez has circulate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    Fox 26 News May Be Facing Some Big Job Cuts

    Difficult times may be coming for Channel 26, Fox's local news operation.A television-news website reports that Fox is planning big cutbacks at stations across the country. "Stations like New York's WNYW, Chicago's WFLD and Houston's KRIV are expected to be hit hard," reports TVNewserKRIV is an "own ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    You Local School Districts Are Paying Your Teachers Too Much!

    There's beeen plenty of drug talk when it comes to Houston schools lately, but what about some good news?Well, how about the fact that school districts are bitching that teachers down here are just getting paid too damn well?It's true. (We'll pause to give the teachers reading this a chance to stop ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Wanda Sykes

    The stand-up comedian weighs in on the Clinton/Obama race

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2006

    Can Ya Spare a Nickel?

    The stand-up comedian weighs in on the Clinton/Obama race

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Paying Their Way

    The stand-up comedian weighs in on the Clinton/Obama race

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Going Baroque

    Musicians and management of the Houston Symphony battle over a budget that won’t stay in the black

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    On the Defense

    Internal feuds and investigations cripple the agency representing accused convicts

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Bloody Monday

    For 14 workers of the struggling opera, the fat lady sings

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    What's Wrong with This Picture?

    MFA director Peter C. Marzio gets a bonus of $1.7 million while front-line museum employees say they have trouble paying their rent

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Awakening Giant

    Immigrant Hispanic workers at Quietflex spoke out. Now their struggle may reshape organized labor in Houston.

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    (Pay)checks and (Im)balances

    Fat starting salaries! Hefty raises! HISD says its administrators deserve them.

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    The Incredible Expanding Contract

    Fat starting salaries! Hefty raises! HISD says its administrators deserve them.

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    The Insider

    Fat starting salaries! Hefty raises! HISD says its administrators deserve them.

  • Music

    August 14, 1997

    Static

    Fat starting salaries! Hefty raises! HISD says its administrators deserve them.

  • News

    January 16, 1997

    Minimal Theories

    Despite the rhetoric, evidence on the minimum wage initiative isn't conclusive either way

  • News

    January 18, 1996

    Selective Ethics

    Lloyd Kelley skates on a conflict-of-interest complaint, leaving plenty of unanswered questions in his wake

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