Randall Kallinen

Capsule Art Reviews: "Endearing the Line," "The Graphic Arts of Hans Erni," "HJ Bott: Rhythm and Rhetoric," "Members," "reverse of volume RG," "Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics," "Space Zombie Mayan Apocalyptic Human Sacrifice Uplift Mofo Party

Capsule Art Reviews: "CTRL group two," "Elixir," "Neurotic," "Space Zombie Mayan Apocalyptic Human Sacrifice Uplift Mofo Party Plan Spring Break 2012"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Anodyne," "The Cowboy Spirit: Faces of the American West," "Layers," "Neurotic," "Pictures and Words," "Round 36," "Space Zombie Mayan Apocalyptic Human Sacrifice Uplift Mofo Party Plan Spring Break 2012"

Hatice Cullingford, 65: Says She Was Roughed Up and Wrongly Jailed in Dog-Poop Argument

A shitty day for a rocket scientist.​A 65-year-old woman who worked for NASA and the Los Alamos nuclear lab is suing two Houston police officers for allegedly roughing her up and throwing her in jail for 15 hours because of an argument over dog poop. Hatice Cullingford got in an argument with ... More >>

Red Light Cameras: Group Sues City To Get Statistics

​A vocal opponent of red light cameras filed a lawsuit today against the City of Houston for apparently refusing to release monthly traffic reports requested under the state's Public Information Act.The lawsuit, filed in Harris County District Court by Paul Kubosh, who helped found the group Citiz ... More >>

Randall Kallinen, Others Want The New Public Defender's Office Done Right

Hulk mad if budget small​More than a dozen local civil rights and justice advocacy groups banded together Wednesday in an attempt to ensure that the proposed Harris County public defender office gets done right.At a news conference, the organizations, which come together to form the Greater Housto ... More >>

Harris County Inmates Still Fighting To See Medical Records

Harris County Jail, looking pristene​The on-again-off-again court battle to allow Harris County prison inmates to obtain copies of their own medical records while behind bars is starting to steam up once more.In one corner there is Matthew Collazo, who has been sentenced to prison for jumping bond ... More >>

Critics Want To Know: Why Are Cops Shooting So Many People These Days?

​Justice advocates are demanding to know why the hell the cops in Houston are shooting so many people.Lawyers and community leaders plan to address City Council this afternoon to ask that the city authorize an independent investigation that is transparent and open to the public into why officers s ... More >>

Investigation Into HFD Scandal Conducted Improperly, Lawyer Says

​The case of the two women firefighters who claimed that over the summer they discovered sexist and racist slurs written on the walls of their fire station is heating up again. And this time it involves accusations about a judge, an assistant district attorney, and a potentially improper secretive ... More >>

Federal Judge Dismisses Suit Involving Alleged Spy Shot By HPD Officers

​In the court of law, it never really mattered whether Roland Carnaby was a spy, as he claimed just before police gunned him down along the highway following a high-speed chase. After all, his widow, Susan, was suing the City of Houston and a pair of its police officers in federal court for excess ... More >>

She's Suing To Make Sure Prayers Get The Hell Out Of City Council Meetings

​To Houston realtor Kay Staley, religion and organized government mix about as well as tequila and jagermeister. That is to say, not very well. And so she has launched a federal lawsuit against the City of Houston and city council member Anne Clutterbuck in an attempt to sever the two incompatible ... More >>

Spy Story

Con man or super spook — either way, Roland Carnaby wasn't supposed to meet his death on a Houston highway in a high-speed chase with the cops.

After Three Tries, Homeless Advocate Gets His Day In Court -- And Loses

It was the trial of the century! Well, err, maybe not ... but to Nick Cooper it felt like it took that long to finally get the right to fight a traffic ticket in Houston's municipal court.In early May 2007, Cooper was handing out apples to a group of homeless people in an alley near the 2000 block o ... More >>

You're In Harris County Jail? You Ain't Getting Your Health Records

Matthew Collazo, an inmate at the Harris County jail, has a series of bumps under his skin that are troubling him. He wants to see an outside doctor to make sure he is healthy, and needs his medical records from the jail. He asked for them in writing, but officials wouldn't give 'em up. Collazo's mo ... More >>

Racism Goes Unchecked at Regent University, Meanwhile the Melanin-Challenged Turn Out to Protest... Something.

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Oh, Those (Racist) Scamps At Pat Robertson's Law School

Photo courtesy Randall KallinenWe told you yesterday about Adam Key, a local guy who had been kicked out of Regent University, the law school created by televangelist Pat Robertson, because he had posted a picture on the Internet of Robertson idly scratching his face with his middle finger.We mentio ... More >>

Local Guy's Suit Against Pat Robertson Helped By Racism From Pat Robertson's Students

New evidence may help a Spring man prove the freedom of expression case he's filed in federal court claiming that Regent University, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in Virginia, unconstitutionally kicked him out of school for posting a picture on the Internet of Robertson scratching his face ... More >>

Conroe Cop's Arrest Might Mean Good News For His Fellow Defendants

Photo courtesy Conroe PDWhile the federal indictment unsealed earlier this week against Conroe police officer Michael Tindall - accused of robbing a bank where he occasionally worked  - surely came as sad and shocking news to some, there's at least one group of people who may have cause to cele ... More >>

Satellite Collision: Red-Light Cameras To Blame?

NASA has announced that one of its satellites has collided with a Russian satellite, creating a cloud of space debris that threatens other space objects.They did not say whether red-light cameras played any part in the collision.Scientists say, however, that satellites have never collided in the ... More >>

Library, Homeless Advocates Meet; It's "Chill"

This afternoon, the folks from Food Not Bombs, a local group that serves vegan food to the homeless four nights a week in front of the Houston Public Library, met with some people from the library to decide how they could avoid another confrontation. "It was a lot more chill than I expected," Nick C ... More >>

That Report On Red-Light Cameras Is Getting Blasted Again

Houston civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen says the results of an open records lawsuit against the city shows that red light cameras do not work and that city officials have been misleading the public about their benefits.In December, a study authored by Rice University political science Profess ... More >>

Red-Light Cameras: Bob Stein Responds, And He's Pissed

We've heard back from Bob Stein, the Rice professor taken to task over his red-light-camera report by attorney Randall Kallinen, who's accused him of buckling under political pressure to change his findings.Stein simply says the allegations against him are untrue. "Read the report," he says, "and re ... More >>

The Battle Over Red-Light Cameras Goes On....And On

If you thought all the clamor over red light cameras was over, think again.So far, most of the battling has been over the release of a Rice University professor's report, which seemingly contradicted a Texas A&M report. Then folks on both sides of the issue began squabbling about which report wa ... More >>

Lawyer To Sue To Get That Secret Red-Light Camera Study

Houston civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen says he is going to sue the city for refusing to hand over any information whatsoever concerning a red-light camera traffic-safety study conducted by a Rice University professor. Kallinen says he talked to the study's author, Professor Robert Stein ... More >>

If Kids Are Our Future, Then We're Going To Be Stuck Forever With Red-Light Cameras

Ever wonder what happens when you throw a bunch of kids in a room and ask them to debate and vote on a hot issue? Well, as it turns out, pretty much the same thing as the old folks.   Last night, 23 members of the Mayor's Youth Council sat behind the microphones at City Hall discussing whe ... More >>

A Second, Unreleased Red-Light Camera Study Might Not Be So Upbeat

Much is being made of a Texas A&M study recently released saying that red light cameras reduce accidents by 30 percent across the state. But Hair Balls has gotten a whiff that there's another study out there looking specifically at Houston and that the results are not so rosy. What's more, a loc ... More >>

HPD Beat Man To Death, Family Says

At today's City Council meeting, the family of a dead man will accuse HPD officers of beating the man to death.Houston civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen tells Hair Balls a report from the county medical examiner reveals that Marion Wilson, 52, died from blunt force trauma after an altercation w ... More >>

City Council Needs An Open-Records Request To View HPD Tape

Man Allegedly Beaten by Jailor and Denied Tape of Incident

Glen Cheek, Sexual Harassment, Randall Kallinen, Dildos, Ed Emmett and Property Taxes

He may be dead, but the lawsuit lives on

Graffiti Artist Sues H.P.D.

Collision Course

A lawsuit challenges deputies who shoot fleeing drivers

Playing by the Rules

A Houston softball team accuses Atlanta of being too straight

Hell on Earth

Both sides in a Houston fight worship the same god: publicity

Tempting Teens

Does a police sting program make kids into too-easy targets?

As the Jim Crow Flies

Court art attracts heat but no media light

Letters

Off the "X", Beaching Out, The Low Down

Bargain Basement

Are open courts and basic defendant rights the latest flood victims?

Good Times, Bad Times

A federal lawsuit accuses the county of upping the pressure for guilty pleas