Gene Green

Healthcare for Homeless Head Meets Michelle Obama, Gets Big Surprise Check

As founder and president of Healthcare for the Homeless -- Houston (HHH), Dr. David Buck is a busy man. So busy, in fact, he was taken aback when his office got a voice message from U.S. Representative Gene Green's wife Helen saying that she would like Dr. Buck to attend the Centennial First Lady's ... More >>

Houston's Nine Members of Congress: Net Worth of Almost $400 Million

​Welcome to Congress!​The Center for Responsive Politics has put out its list of the net worth of every member of Congress, and the Houston delegation are no slackers. The nine representatives have a net worth estimated to be $392.4 million, which is a pretty impressive figure. Actually, m ... More >>

Entitled to What?

The Ochoas are hardworking, taxpaying U.S. citizens who have taught their kids English. Why, they ask, should they be penalized for that?

Tommy Lee Jones For Senate: Congressman Gene Green Says Why the Hell Not?

Senator Tommy Lee Jones?​Geoff Berg, host of KPFT's Partisan Gridlock show is leading the improbable battle to draft Tommy Lee Jones as a Democratic candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. They've got a Facebook page and everything, including a petition with an op ... More >>

Gene Green: He's Got Everyone Wondering What He'll Do About Latest Clean-Air Bill

Gene Green: Which way will he go?​Health and safety advocates will be watching U.S. Congressman Gene Green closely tomorrow, when his colleagues on the House Energy & Commerce committee are expected to introduce a bill intended to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products, such as ... More >>

GHASP Takes On Toxic Chemicals In...Well, Just About Everything

Photo courtesy GHASPThat is, indeed, a large duck​Standing in front of an 20-foot-tall pseudo-rubber ducky, local public health advocates on Friday morning threw their support behind recently proposed federal legislation to update and upgrade the laws governing toxic chemicals used in consumer pro ... More >>

Hey Texans -- You Can't Disappoint Us If We Don't Have High Hopes

​In our cover story this week, we take a look at the Houston Texans' brief-but-tangled history of breaking our hearts. A franchise that seems to begin each year riding on seemingly reasonable hopes of improvement consistently ends it with waves of disappointment.We also rounded up some predictions ... More >>

Gene Green And The Town Halls

​Among the local Congressional delegation, probably no one's run into more rambunctious Town Hall madness than Gene Green. Sheila Jackson Lee has had some of it, of course, but as long as the cameras are running she's happy.Green's town halls, which usually attract a couple of dozen people, are no ... More >>

Want To Attend A Gene Green Town Hall? Bring A Photo ID

​Town Hall meetings for members of congress have gotten pretty heated lately, as the president's health-care proposal has, it's safe to say, riled up some on the right. Houston congressman Gene Green's office is doing something about it -- they're requiring that people present a photo ID proving t ... More >>

Obama Inauguration Tickets -- Hotter Than Hannah Montana and The Jonas Brothers Combined

Feds Uncover Reason For Plant Explosion

East End Doesn't "Explode" Metro

Texas Air National Guard Boots Sick Soldier

Jason Franco now struggling in civilian life

Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

The DA doesn't make deals. And that's why Jesus Salazar is living the free life in Venezuela while a teenage girl lies dead, stabbed 26 times.

Random Checks at the Bolivar Ferry, Up Close Communications, Ted Poe, Gene Green and Mac Haik

Galveston escapes with a close call

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Houston Public Library, energy policy, Houston Chronicle, blogging

Fondren Southwest gets a mini-library

Too Late, Baby

The zoo waited too long to feed at the trough

A Moon Swoon

One Houston preacher gave up the cross for the cult

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Eckels: The Son Also Rises

The county judge comes into his own on Commissioners Court

Moving Target

The city is rolling out the welcome mat for CITGO. But many workers want the company to get lost.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Houston's sweet-and-sour inaugural

Fresh Starts

For two Houston politicos, 2003 brings big changes

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

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.

Austin Shocker

Congressional redistricting: Dem disaster or Trojan horse?

Paying the Price

Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

Gene Green

U.S. representative from the 29th Congressional District of Texas

Cracking the Club

Latinos find little sympathy from Commissioners Court

La Revolución Will Not Be Covered

Shaping the Council to Come

Time to pull out those election wish lists

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Going Through These Things Twice

tuck inside of Hotel Six with the Houston blues again

Horror Show

Ruben Guerrero's plans to be a judge again are dashed, as local Democrats continue their inept ways

A Family Affair

Roland Garcia has the political backing to be the U.S. Attorney for South Texas. He also has a brother imprisoned for murder and drug trafficking -- a fact he somehow forgot to tell his congressional sponsors. That may not be enough to disqualify him, but

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What's Driving Miss Shelia?

With her frenetic grandstanding, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has irritated her staff, her colleagues, and even the president. she says she speaks for her constituents. But will anyone listen?

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Unembraceable You

When it comes to AIDS funding, process takes precedence over children in Harris County

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Coffee with Betti and the FBI

Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

In Denial

As HIV spreads among blacks and Hispanics, agencies that serve those communities say they're being shortchanged

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John Whitmire was on a roll coming into the 1995 Legislature. But how the mighty have fallen. Tim Fleck examines the mounting troubles of the state senator known as "Boogie."

Twilight of El Jefe

Party of Insiders

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?