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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Bragging Time for Mayor Annise Parker and Houston

    Read all about it​As Hair Balls let you know last week, the New York City-based business and innovation magazine Fast Company picked Houston as its No. 1 City of the Year for 2011. In case you can't find a copy, the interview with Annise Parker by Jeff Chu, articles editor for Fast Company, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    NYC Mag Fast Company Sends Houston Some Monster Love

    Note the yellow sticker​Houston is Number One and I am finally contracturally unbound and able to tell the world. Several months ago, an e-mail out of netherspace arrived in my inbox from one Jeff Chu from Fast Company magazine asking if I'd like to write a story for them about living in Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Bullet Train Between Dallas And Houston: It's Coming (Maybe)

    How about a Lone Star flag on the front of that thing?​Houston business leaders got briefed yesterday by a Japanese company looking to build a bullet train between Dallas and Houston, with mostly private funds.It's part of a U.S. offense by the Central Japan Railway, which, according to media repo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    Greater Houston Partnership: Geraldo Rivera

    Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

  • Music

    November 13, 2008

    Houston Goes International with the Latin Grammys

    Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    It’s Mathew Knowles’s Town. We Just Live Here.

    Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Economic Development, the Houston Chronicle, Frivolous Lawsuits and Bad Travel Agents

    Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2007

    City of Angels

    Go behind the public face of the award-winning journalist and muckraker

  • News

    March 8, 2007
  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Amazing Race

    KTRK has a "Meet the Rapist!" contest

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    Wheels on the Bus

    HISD's version of "neighborhood input"

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Eckels: The Son Also Rises

    The county judge comes into his own on Commissioners Court

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Lay of the Land

    Kenny Boy's fall: a sign of Houston's corporate culture gone wrong

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    The Mixmaster

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

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Ties That Bind?

    The D.A. shares something with those he's supposed to be probing: campaign support

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Moving Target

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

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    The Six-Year Itch

    City Hall reality series: Who survives on Bill White's island?

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Parting Shots

    Foes of Mayor Lee Brown can't wait to see him gone. And a lot of his friends feel that way, too.

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Year of the Yao Woo

    The crazy times in 2002 — Kmart raids, Olympian losses, stadium mania and more —- now make sense. Houston was just mining Ming.

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    One More Time

    Houston's Image Problems, Part LCXVII

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Battle Corps

    How the fine art of diplomacy dissolved into a bitter two-word war

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    GOP Mayoral Pipe Dreams

    West U rejected them, so how will they ever win Houston's City Hall?

  • News

    April 19, 2001

    We Are Terrific!

    Houston's latest image-boosting campaign gets a big hand from the Chron

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    Booster Shot

    A proposed Medical Center project gets big, big play

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Days of Paige

    Did Bush pick a master educator - or an overpaid front man?

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Playing Games

    The Olympic vote is hush-hush at the Chronicle

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Tax Lean

    Want a subsidy for your corporate expansion? Local governments are ready with millions in property-tax abatements -- and very little oversight.

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Gag Me with a Suit!

    Exercising rights in Seabrook can land you in court

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Insider

    Board Out of Its Gourd!

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Children, Prepare Your Desk Manuals!

    Paige DMPs on the HISD bureaucracy

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Educational Savior Seeks New Sinner

    Paige DMPs on the HISD bureaucracy

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    Buffalo Bill

    Legislation would cut citizens out of the process

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Blowing Smoke

    Government and civic boosters know the way to clean up the air in polluted southeast communities: add another chemical plant

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Situational Ethics

    As Jew Don Boney has moved upward in public life, have his values changed to meet his needs rather than those of his constituents?

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Payback Time

    Hispanic and African-American sports authority members want to make sure they're getting their fair share of the business

  • News

    October 23, 1997

    Undiscovered Country

    Hispanic and African-American sports authority members want to make sure they're getting their fair share of the business

  • News

    September 11, 1997

    It's a bird, it's a plane ...

    Hispanic and African-American sports authority members want to make sure they're getting their fair share of the business

  • News

    September 11, 1997

    The Airport That Wouldn't Die

    Last fall, environmentalists thought they'd finally put a stake through the heart of the West Side Airport. But the mayoral race seems to have given it a new lease on life.

  • News

    May 22, 1997

    Brothers of the Road

    'The I-69 "NAFTA Highway" is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Thanks to your tax dollars, it's already provided a very good one for the underemployed brother of Tom DeLay.

  • Calendar

    April 10, 1997

    Press Picks

    'The I-69 "NAFTA Highway" is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Thanks to your tax dollars, it's already provided a very good one for the underemployed brother of Tom DeLay.

  • News

    January 16, 1997

    Minimal Theories

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

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    The Insider

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

  • News

    December 19, 1996

    Nature's Call

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

  • News

    October 31, 1996

    Fanned

    There's a reason the public has to subsidize so much of a new stadium: Houston's a lousy baseball town

  • News

    May 2, 1996

    Stadia Watch

    There's a reason the public has to subsidize so much of a new stadium: Houston's a lousy baseball town

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    The Insider

    There's a reason the public has to subsidize so much of a new stadium: Houston's a lousy baseball town

  • News

    March 28, 1996

    The Insider

    There's a reason the public has to subsidize so much of a new stadium: Houston's a lousy baseball town

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    Forecast: Raining Stadiums

    Forget the committee -- the city's sports future already is being negotiated by the mayor

  • Culture

    February 9, 1995

    Cooperate -- or Die?

    Houston's major art museums map a road to partnership, and worry about survival

  • News

    January 20, 1994

    The fight to save the Katy Prairie

    How many winters more will Arctic waterfowl make their 10,000-year-old journey to the western edge of Houston?

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