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Rob Todd

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Year of Living Dangerously

    Sports palaces, city cell-phone shenanigans and subdivisions where Montrose once stood. Could any self-respecting survivalist leave the bunker behind?

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    2001: A Bell Mayoral Odyssey?

    Councilman Chris tests the waters against Brown

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Blocking Shots

    We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Letters

    We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    The True Tradition of Houston

    We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

  • News

    January 23, 1997

    Sexually Disoriented

    Politics -- not logic -- drove Council to enact the new jury-rigged SOB ordinance

  • News

    January 30, 1997

    The Insider

    Politics -- not logic -- drove Council to enact the new jury-rigged SOB ordinance

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    Hello, Columbus

    Is the mayor's housing adviser about to hand the Fourth Ward over to a for-profit developer?

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

    Is the mayor's housing adviser about to hand the Fourth Ward over to a for-profit developer?

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    The Insider

    Is the mayor's housing adviser about to hand the Fourth Ward over to a for-profit developer?

  • News

    February 12, 1998

    The Insider

    Is the mayor's housing adviser about to hand the Fourth Ward over to a for-profit developer?

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    After-School Limbo

    Middle schoolers are often left to their own devices

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The Insider

    Middle schoolers are often left to their own devices

  • News

    July 2, 1998

    The Great Non-Communicator

    Houston's new mayor is working as hard as, or harder than, his predecessors. Now if only he could find a way to tell people about it.

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    Reefer Madness

    Does Houston's biggest drug-prevention program keep kids clean or just make cops feel good?

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    No Account

    Secrecy and lack of oversight plague housing programs

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Bum Deal?

    Politics plays an uncertain backup to this "Gimme Shelter"

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Kingwood Legal Follies

    Brown rushed in where Lanier feared to tread

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    All I Want for Christmas Is...

    Some pols count blessings; others keep on running

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Split Ticket

    District C's ex file: Then it got personal…

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Valerie Sarofim Says She Was Taken to the Cleaners

    The socialite sues to get back her investment from an alleged money launderer

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    End of a Cajun Era

    Rustic Pe-Te's closes after decades of keeping Gulf Coast music traditions alive

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Cockeyed Campaign Gambits

    A Republican runs on Lee Brown's coattails

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Sounds of Silence

    A deaf activist says the Hobby doesn't want to hear her complaints

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Nice, Nice Baby

    The holiday spirit lingers on in the Chron

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    All I Want for Christmas Is...

    A shopping list for your favorite political types

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Do the City Hall Shuffle!

    Term limits and raw ambition send local politicos on holiday shopping sprees

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    The Good Doctor

    Michael Brown made it big in the hand clinic business. But as his wife discovered, there was a much darker side to this dynamic surgeon.

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Cracking the Club

    Latinos find little sympathy from Commissioners Court

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Cutting Through the Fog

    A heated debate in the back room of the City Council chambers

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Letters

    Mind Games, Bad Form, Executioner's Wrong

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Rob Todd Unredacted

    Desperately seeking Susan

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Letters

    Heaven's Gates, Teaching Tolerance, Todd's Odd

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    The Ballad of Bert and Rob and Susan

    Caught in a conservative council love triangle

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    The Insider

    Art Decoy: A handwritten note undercuts UH chancellor's wordy defense

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    The Good, the Bad, the Imprisoned

    Houston's best politicos were not always the ones elected -- or the ones who stayed in office

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Civil(ity) War

    Does Houston have to get tougher on street people with new laws?

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Going Through These Things Twice

    tuck inside of Hotel Six with the Houston blues again

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    Don't Dump Your Debt on Me

    A miffed Lanier makes common cause with the controller

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    The Five Most Entertaining City Council Members Of The Decade

    Photo courtesy GHCVB​Thanks to term limits, turnover among Houston city council members is fairly regular, and institutional memory be damned. But an ever-fresh supply of new meat means that at least some of that meat will be highly flavorful.This decade didn't disappoint when it comes to that asp ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2010

    Train Wreck

    How Metro and its president Frank Wilson got so far off track.

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    Out of Hand

    Michael Glyn Brown was recently acquitted of assaulting his wife. But that's only the latest allegation against the violent, drug-abusing doctor, long a fixture of Houston TV commercials and society.

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