Subject: Galveston County

• Heavy Lifting

  February 12, 2007

• I Do, I Do!

  January 9, 2007

• Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

  April 11, 2008

• "Disgruntled" BP Workers Sue

  July 17, 2008

• The Worrisome List Of The Missing

  September 23, 2008

• ACLU Wants Galveston Jail Evacuated Next Time

  September 30, 2008

• Treated Like a Dog

  Galveston County charged Roy Pike with cruelty to animals - and then let his chow die in custody

  September 30, 1999

• Raw Deal

  Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

  December 9, 1999

• Dimitri's Last Stand

  Will naturalists rid the wetlands of a wily immigrant's sex clubs?

  May 11, 2000

• Tale of the Tape

  KHOU gets defensive about airing a blurry spring break tape

  April 12, 2001

• Comcast Didn't Mean To Sic A Collection Agency On Ike Victims

  October 24, 2008

• Six Feet Blunder

  Bring out your dead -- and wait

  September 9, 2004

• Evacuate From Ike? Let's See, Go To A Hotel Or A Nursing Home Shut Down For Code Violations?

  Hurricane Ike was a time of coming together, where folks dug deep to lend a helping hand and neighbors acted, well ... neighborly.But not everyone, according to one Galveston County woman.Estelle Reeves is suing her former employer for allegedly firing her following the storm after she says she discovered her bosses at an Island nursing home stuck patients in a building that had been shut down because of code violations as a way to save a few bucks.

  November 24, 2008

• Searching for Hurricane Ike Victims

  April 2, 2009

• Galveston's Grand Opera House Is Back, Baby

  The 1894 Grand Opera House, socked with eight feet of water by that bastard Ike, is back.The facility officially reopens tomorrow with a free party featuring tours, sing-alongs and people reading from the best Ike survival stories. Then Jerry Jeff Walker will bring the place back for paying customers with a concert that night.Cake and punch will also be served. Maureen Patton, executive director of The Grand, tells The Galveston County Daily News that she hopes people "come down to the theater a

  January 2, 2009

• Diner's Notebook

  June 1, 1995

• People Rich Enough To Own Boats Find It Easy To Evade Taxes

  Galveston County is getting screwed out of about $33,000 in property taxes from a League City marina. The county knows about it, but doesn't seem to care. On the Wharf Marina web site, it says plain as day (if you don't take into account spelling and grammatical errors) that wet slip owners "must pay property tax on there respective slip (Galveston County tax; League City tax; Clear Lake School [District] tax) it's about 100.00 a year." After hearing some rumors around the docks, one marina resi

  January 21, 2009

• A Second Mistrial For Dymond Milburn, The 12-year-Old "Hooker" Arrested By Galveston Cops

  A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial for Dymond Milburn, the black girl who -- when she was 12 years old -- was charged with assaulting police officers who tried to arrest her in her front yard.The cops had been looking for three white hookers. Milburn was hospitalized and later arrested at her school.The Galveston County Daily News reports that she won't be tried again: After eight hours of deliberation, a jury of three men and three women told Judge Roy Quintanilla they were hopelessly dea

  February 10, 2009

• The Search For Ike Victims In Galveston County Ends

  The job of looking for Ike victims in the debris piles and swamps of Galveston County -- a nasty, brutal job that drained the searchers both physically and emotionally -- is over.The county's second and final search for missing Ike victims ended recently with eight people from the Bolivar area still missing. Some of them are more than likely among the five badly decomposed, still-unidentified bodies in the Galveston County morgue, Colin Rizzo, Human Remains Search Coordinator for the Galveston C

  February 11, 2009

• Don't Get A Toothache If You've Got Jury Duty In Galveston County

  A League City woman has been found in contempt of court and fined $100 because she got a toothache during a trial on which she was a juror, the Galveston County Daily News  reports.It wasn't so much she got the toothache and needed surgery; it was more that she told some people (including a reporter) about it.Sandra Harvey was selected as a juror in a stalking case, but then came down with tooth trouble. Her dentist called the court to say she might need a root canal, but she was told to co

  February 12, 2009

• Besieged by the Bay

  June 26, 1997

• Changing the Channel

  December 25, 1997

• Night & Day

  July 16, 1998

• They're Still Arresting People Who Curse In Galveston County, Gosh Darn It

  Photo by Joe ShlabotnikLast year Kristi Fridge garnered nationwide publicity after being arrested in a La Marque Wal-Mart for cursing. Reasonable people thought that if a vengeful God had somehow decided to mess with you enough to place you in a Wal-Mart in LaMarque, then cursing would be a viable response.The whole thing petered out eventually, and life returned to normal in Galveston County.Until yesterday. When someone cursed again. Authorities did what they had to, and arrested the man.Since

  March 11, 2009

• Brandon Backe's Case Goes To A Grand Jury, If The DA's Office Comes In To Work

  Photo by JasoonThe whole Brandon Backe fracas, where a wedding brawl has led to nothing but confusion, is headed to a grand jury.Galveston County DA Kurt Sistrunk says he is not recommending any charges be filed against the cops in the case, but he will present it to a grand jury for their consideration.We learned this from the Houston Chronicle, which said Sistrunk had released a statement on the issue.Naturally enough, we wanted to get our own copy of the statement and maybe ask some questions

  March 20, 2009

• News Hostage

  July 1, 1999

• WTF Is Up With All The Cursing Arrests In Galveston County?

  Photo by GuerrettoBelieve it or not, a third person has been ticketed for cursing in public in Galveston County.First it was Kathryn Fridge, arrested for dropping an F-bomb in a La Marque Wal-Mart. Then it was the guy from Queens, ticketed for talking like a guy from Queens, in a Galveston diner.Now it's a Texas City man, who neighbors say constantly "used the S-word" in discussing how he didn't like their cats defecating in his yard.Joesph Loflin was cited for disorderly conduct by Texas City p

  April 13, 2009

• Slip-Up on Taxes

  Boat owners get to evade

  January 29, 2009

• Gangsters in Bacliff

  September 11, 2008

• Another Galveston County Cursing Arrest Ends In A F***ing Whimper

  Photo by GuerrettoThat bizarre streak of cursing arrests in Galveston County is having trouble standing up in court.One guy -- the guy from Queens who used the f-word -- pleaded guilty to his charge, but we're guessing he did it just to avoid having to come back down to "fuckin' Galveston" to fight it.The first person to be arrested, a La Marque woman who cursed in a Wal-Mart during a hurricane panic, had the charges dropped against her.And now the third in the trio, a Texas City man who cursed

  June 3, 2009

• Candidate of the Year

  Practical solutions, involving liquor and guns

  November 2, 2006

• Time Out, Mack

  Rewarding bad behavior by underachievers

  December 16, 2004

• Globe Theater

  East meets West at the Houston Shakespeare Festival

  July 29, 2004

• The Last Word

  They've fought for justice for nine years, but time is running out

  July 8, 2004

• Ruffled Feathers

  The Audubon Society wants some killer birds to stay off its land

  March 18, 2004

• Hotel Envy

  Greenspoint says it's just as good as the Galleria, darn it

  January 15, 2004

• The Breakfast Club

  In Galveston, it's coffee, a newspaper and a blow job on the way to work

  December 11, 2003

• Bridging the Gap

  Birders and the port are new buds seeking to block the proposed toll span at Bolivar

  November 27, 2003

• Letters

  July 17, 2003

• Kitty Litter

  Toyya Braskey lives with 100 cats. They are her life. Now the city says they have to go.

  July 3, 2003

• Catfight

  The fur flies with the fuzz when feral felines keep getting fed

  June 19, 2003

• Wall Brawl Truce

  A fragile détente settles over Kemah and Clear Lake Shores

  December 26, 2002

• Showdown at the Shore

  Thrill to the battle of the boardwalk brawlers of Kemah versus the maulers of Clear Lake Shores. Sales-tax slugfests, counterpunches to kayo streets and a flurry of jabs have jolted city services in a municipal grudge match yet to end.

  July 18, 2002

• Sand in Your Craw?

  Make yourself heard

  July 13, 2000

• A Yenne for Your Thoughts

  Brazoria's D.A. raises privacy issues over DPS emissions tests

  June 29, 2000

• Brandon Backe Is A Free Man!! But He Still Can't Pitch, For Crying Out Loud

  A Galveston County grand jury has refused to indict Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe on any charges stemming from what sounds like a fun wedding in the off-season that involved a brawl with cops. (As many good weddings do.)The Houston Chronicle reports the decision came today.Thirteen cops were disciplined for their part in the fight, which sounds impressive, until you learn that the violations they were cited for all included paperwork stuff.The grand jury also apparently declined to indict

  May 26, 2009

• Galveston's Flagship Hotel: Going Once, Going Twice.....

  The Flagship Hotel, that iconic building on a pier in Galveston, seems to forever be endangered. It now looks like it's more endangered than ever.The strange, twisty tale of the now semi-battered building might be coming to a conclusion, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Landry's Restaurants, Inc., which owns the building, is looking to sell it or demolish it, the paper says.In its place would be....another Kemah Boardwalk-like "attraction," with restaurants and overpriced rides.The compa

  June 30, 2009

• You've Heard It Effin' Before: Cops Wash Out With Soap Another Galveston County Potty-Mouth

  ​We really thought we wouldn't be writing again about people getting into trouble with the law in Galveston County because they cursed. But goshdarnit, it just keeps popping up.Whether it's a frustrated woman in a Wal-Mart, a guy arguing over his neighbor's dog poop, or even a guy from fuckin' Queens (the official name of the NYC borough), cops keep handing out tickets for potty mouths in the priggish county.Now they've done it again.The Galveston County Daily News reports on four yutes who we

  August 20, 2009

• An Abuse of Power?

  August 27, 2009

• Life, Post-Ike: The Comeback Kid

  September 10, 2009