The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.
Yeah, everyone pretty much hates red-light cameras, except city bureaucrats who collect the money from them.On the other hand, they can be somewhat entertaining.American Traffic Solutions, the company that runs red-light cameras in 180 cities including Houston, ushered in the new year by releasing video highlights of the best intersection mishaps captured by their equipment.Scottsdale, Arizona has four of the top ten. The Texas cities of Irving and Burleson each have one. (A nice truck fli
Last fall the Houston Press asked readers to send in nominations of people who were breaking new ground in the arts around here.The lucky winners have been named and will be getting a $2,000 check at a dinner Saturday and -- perhaps more importantly -- they are profiled in the Press today. (Well, maybe the check is a bigger deal.)It's all a part of the Press' Artopia bash, dedicated to food, booze, art and fashion.Who are the MasterMinds? A husband/wife team of visual artists, a group of high s
Crusading convicts turned the docile Echo newspaper into a voice for prison reform. Fellow inmates cheered, but alarmed TDCJ officials preferred silence.
A dozen people were injured when a freakishly strong spring storm slammed into the Dallas Cowboys practice facility in Irving earlier this year.
It turns out Texas A&M 's $35 million new athletic center was built by the same company and has the same basic steel-and-fabric design.Now the Aggies are asking for an independent inspection of the McFerrin Athletic Center to make sure it doesn't, you know, collapse like the Cowboys' facility did.The Associated Press looked into the new facilit
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has issued its latest rankings of how businesses treat their gay and lesbian employees, and things look a little better than last year.The report gave 305 businesses a top score of 100 this year; that's an increase from last year's 260. Eleven of the top 20 Forbes-ranked companies got perfect scores. (Not ExxonMobil, which has such a nice large building here and has yet to adopt the gay-friendly benefits policy that Mobil had.)How'd Houston do?Trevor Thoma
Photo by Liana LopezA packed room hears about 287(g)It only took 15 seconds for the Commissioners Court of Harris County to approve three additional years of participation in 287(g) after hours of public testimony, mostly in opposition, to the program.The two Houston Garcias, who, by the way, were not included in the Garcia segment of CNN's Latino in America, went toe-to-toe over the county's implementation of a federal program designed to identify and deport undocumented immigrants in the U.
