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  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Anti-Social: Employers Want Candidates' Facebook and Twitter Logins

    Privacy has increasingly become an important topic in the technology world. There are concerns that web sites like Google and Facebook are collecting data to sell to advertisers. There is the worry that the government is using the massive amounts of information passed around the Internet every day t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    10 More Sh*t People Say Videos and Then We're Done

    We will happily admit that when we were told by 30 of our Facebook friends that we just "had to watch" the Sh*t Girls Say Youtube sensation, we were completely amused. We cannot count the number of times in a week that we start a sentence with, "First of all, ewww" on one hand, nor how often we are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Drivers Protest as Metro Contract Negotiations Grind to Halt

    Photo by Brittanie Shey​Union members lined the north and east side of Metro's downtown headquarters this morning -- a prime visibility location for those taking the light rail to work -- to protest the breakdown in contract negotiations between Metro's leadership and members of the Transporta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    The NBA Lockout X-Factor: Turkey (The Country, Not The Meat)

    I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about Turkey​On the surface, the NFL and NBA lockouts are the same thing -- owners are closing the doors on their own leagues so they can negotiate a more beneficial collective bargaining agreement with the respective players unions. However, as most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Taconmadre Is Hit For Not Paying Employees OT Or Minimum Wage

    Taconmadre pays up for 90-hour work weeks without OT​Taconmadre Mariachi Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $275,706 to employees who did not get overtime or minimum-wage earnings they deserved, the Department of Labor announced today. Workers at three Taconmadre locations "received salaries that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Carrie Feibel & Eric Kane: Chronicle Romance Makes The New York Times

    According to the Times: "Collins Metu Engagement photos of Carrie Feibel and Eric Kayne at the Menil in Houston, Texas" ​The lusty, throbbing crucible of lust that is the Houston Chronicle was exposed in The New York Times Sunday, as a bodice-ripping tale of love at first sight, layoffs and ... 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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    The Human Resources Manager

    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

    January 17, 2011

    Jane Draycott: EEOC Sides With Female Firefighter on Harassment Charges

    Jane Draycott: EEOC sides with her against HFD​As first reported by Fox 26, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that one of the female firefighters involved in a headline-grabbing case was the victim of harassment. We've got a copy of the document (you can see it bel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    So You Want To Be The University of Texas Offensive Coordinator...APPLY HERE

    What are the hours?​As a resident of the great state of Texas, it pains me to see our tax dollars being wasted. Case in point, somewhere in Austin there is a person who had to spend a couple hours of his or her day posting the offensive and defensive coordinator positions for the University ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    The 10 Most Annoying Cubicle Habits, As Reported By Your Co-Workers

    Work is hell​The sniffling-and-coughing season is upon us, so that means it's time to get highly, highly annoyed by the idiots in the nearby cubicles at your office.Not our office, you understand. We have terrific, totally un-annoying co-workers. You guys out there, though, you gotta lot a problem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Cecil Harris Young & Recessioned: At A Job Fair, Trying To Find A People Job

    ​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Cecil Harris, who spent Monday afternoon at a Houston career fair trying to find some work. I've been looking for a job since December, and it's like, there are no jobs. I was working as a dispatcher with an incorporated company for Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Viet Tran, Young & Recessioned: You Can't Be Afraid To Be Goofy

    ​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Viet Tran, a 27-year-old University of Houston grad who has used reality TV, YouTube episodes and street corner stunts to find his dream job. I went into commercial real estate right after I graduated. I did that for about three years. I had ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Long, Loud And Raw Houston School Board Meeting Leaves Few Happy

    It wasn't quite like this at last night's HISD board meeting, but it was close​In a lengthy and tumultuous school board meeting Thursday night, trustees voted 8-1 to fire Principal Mable Caleb and five other administrators and teachers from the Key/Kashmere mess, approved another 170 employe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Alleged Aggie Doctor Brags Of Firing Obama-Voting Employee

    ​The TexAgs political message board is probably not the best place to go for nuanced, sophisticated discussion of the day's issues, unless you think Fox News is fair and balanced.But things can get lively. Like recently, when a poster named dermdoc put up an item headed "Laid off my first Obama vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    HISD Looks to Hire Teachers From California

    ​The Houston ISD is heading out to California (and later to Louisiana, Michigan and Florida!) to recruit teachers, its press office announced today.Specifically, it is looking for bilingual, secondary math and science teachers and cash-strapped California -- where reportedly more than 20,000 teach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Houston's Administaff Accused Of Some Pretty Wild Anti-Semitism

    ​The allegations are so outrageous and outlandish that they almost sound like a fraternity prank, or something a cruel older brother might do to their little brother. Except that they are not. What they are, in fact, are serious accusations made in Maryland federal court against a Houston-ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Hard Times on Milam For A Man Who Wants No Publicity For His Publicity Stunt

    Just minutes ago we got a text from a friend on lunch break, informing us of neatly dressed man briskly walking down Milam armed with a posterboard that read "I Need a Job." He gave us no other clues to go on but when one hears about someone meandering around downtown carrying a sign, we will always ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    36 Years At DPS, Eight Months As Chief -- And He's Outta Here!

    The Department of Public Safety has put out a terse statement announcing that Colonel Stanley Clark, the director of the agency, has resigned that position as of 5 pm today.Why? No answers are forthcoming from DPS or other officials. "This is an elite law enforcement agency. We expect all our employ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Layoff Tales From The Chron

    The layoff tales are spreading from 801 Texas, home of the Houston Chronicle. Here's one. A former copy editor relates her day: my favorite part of the whole experience was being greeted with an offhand joke about copy editors by the bigwig who told me my copy editing job was being eliminated. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    At The Chron: Where You Going With Those Boxes, Boy?

    Photo by laffy4kIt's been an excruciating five-week wait for employees of Houston's only daily newspaper who are scheduled to learn today and tomorrow if they still have jobs. As one nervous reporter described it on Twitter a few days ago, "Out working on plans B-through-F. Anything to take mind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Sherlock's Pub Gets Spanked Back With Harassment Ruling

    The ass-spanking and breast-squeezing has come to a stop at Sherlock's Pub (we assume), but it was an expensive lesson.The owners of the bar on Westheimer agreed to pay $115,000 to settle a class sexual-harassment case brought against them by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC ann ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Cinema Bomar: Careers for Women

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    OSHA Fines Goodyear $67K After Death of Employee

    Five months after a Goodyear employee died following an explosion at a tire and rubber chemical plant in southeast Houston, the feds have issued a rash of citations to the factory for failing to safeguard its workers. But when it's all said and done, the fines would cost the company less than $70,00 ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Workers Comp and Rescued Dogs

    Mutual Decisions

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Houston Chronicle Staffers Facing Buyouts, Layoffs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    Month in Photos: August 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    Uh-Oh, O'Reilly: Racial Discrimination?

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Metro Gets Picketed

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    High Gas Prices: Protests, Segways and Prostitutes

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2008

    Black Math Experiment to Go On Hiatus

    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 >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Bayousphere

    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 >>

  • News

    April 24, 2008

    The Annotated Alberto Gonzales

    A look at Gonzo's job hunt

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    Houston Has One Helluva Job Market. In Other News, We Quit.

    A look at Gonzo's job hunt

  • Dining

    April 5, 2007

    Swift Meatpacking Plant and Illegal Immigrants

    Swift & Company pitted employee against employee when it replaced injured workers with illegal immigrants

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Children of Enron

    One of Ken Lay's many legacies: the families whose lives were disrupted by the fall

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Pens and Needles

    Federal turf fights and deals mark the legacy of a union bribery case

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Rocket

    Yao Ming

  • 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

    January 10, 2002

    Riding Short

    Houston firefighters say the city has been playing Russian roulette by carrying crews of three members instead of four on its trucks. Last October, Jay Paul Jahnke anted up with his life.

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Down at the Boardwalk

    A couple's claim against Landry's -- was it bawdy behavior or veiled blackmail?

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    The Insider

    Where Have All the Women Gone? Discrimination charges spotlight UH's lack of female leadership

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    All in a Day's Work

    Lockheed Martin's welfare-reform efforts have cost taxpayers across the country millions. So naturally, Lockheed Martin has been hired to train and find jobs for the poor in Houston and Harris County.

  • Film

    July 31, 1997

    Perfect Mess

    What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    The Insider

    What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

  • News

    February 8, 1996

    Station Break

    Beset by budget problems, bereft of substantive local programming, Channel 8 finds itself at a crossroads. Perhaps it's time to put the "public" back into Houston Public Television.

  • News

    December 1, 1994

    A Slight Omission

    Beset by budget problems, bereft of substantive local programming, Channel 8 finds itself at a crossroads. Perhaps it's time to put the "public" back into Houston Public Television.

  • News

    June 23, 1994

    The Case Against Kay

    Last year, a grand jury was told tales about Texas' junior senator. Here's what they heard.

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