Subject: Solid Waste Department

• The City's New Recycling Effort: Is It Any Good?

  September 3, 2008

• Hey Houston! You're "Extremely Pleased"!

  October 21, 2008

• Pleasure, Brains and K.A. Paul

  October 30, 2008

• Bishop Is Back

  The former kingmaker is back, sort of

  July 27, 2006

• Howdy, Neighbor!

  Or: Morning in the Garden of Do-Gooder Evil

  October 5, 2000

• Trash Talk

  Condo groups want the mayor to pay up on a campaign promise

  July 29, 1999

• You'll Be Shocked To Learn BARC Doesn't Much Seem To Care About Its Dead Dogs, Either

  Fido's dignified last ride, thanks to the City of HoustonSo you're a higher-up at Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, which has experienced public relations problems for the last...um, decades...and then one of your employees comes to you in February with a concern: An exposed-bed Solid Waste Department truck that hauls from the shelter to the landfill is partially filled with corpses in clear bags.You don't really know what the employee's problem is -- the dogs are already dead afte

  June 10, 2009

• UH Fight Gets Nasty: Closing acclaimed Human Development Lab preschool angers parents

  June 18, 2009

• The Chronicle's Columnist, Buying BARC's Spin

  Photo by elvissaToday's Chron column by Lisa Falkenberg, headlined "Finally, a bit of good news out of BARC," might have been more accurately titled "When Public Relations Attacks!" What the column lacks in actual news value and insight, it makes up for by highlighting what might be one of BARC's thorniest, yet largely unacknowledged, problems: God-awful public relations. That's because the article refers to an "estimate" by Bureau Chief Ray Sim that, "as of Wednesday," the percentage of dogs va

  June 25, 2009

• Getting the Spin from BARC: Things are just rosy at the pound, according to the Chronicle

  July 2, 2009