Charles Chukwu is still trying to get his hands on a video tape allegedly taken at the city jail that may or may not show officers assaulting him. He says even though Internal Affairs investigated the matter and decided there wasn’t enough evidence to discipline the officer, Chukwu just wants to see the tape for himself.
Chukwu pleaded his case before the City Council a month ago, and at the time several council members, including councilwoman Sue Lovell, expressed sympathy.
A member of
Photo by srboisvertHair Balls was very excited to read this morning's press release from City Councilwoman Sue Lovell about the War on Graffiti.Lovell, who's also vice mayor pro-tem, developed www.houstontx.gov/graffiti in order to educate folks about the different kinds of graffiti (Did you know that some tags are "satanic"?), its effect on property values, and how to punish the aerosol anarchists wreaking havoc on defenseless buildings throughout the city. So Hair Balls hopped on the site righ
Sue Lovell's front door, complete with noticesIt's an odd thing when the front door of a city councilmember's home is festooned with bright, urgent notices from the city's building-permit department. In the case of Councilmember Sue Lovell, that's only where the oddness starts.A loyal Hair Balls reader earlier today emailed a photo of Houston Lovell's front door in Montrose, which is peppered with orange notices from the city saying she'd never gotten a permit to build a couple of upgrades
Gays, lesbians, transgenders, bisexuals, transsexuals and their friends will be marching in the 2009 Houston Pride parade Saturday night (this year's theme is "Out for Justice").To add to the festivities, we thought we'd recap some of the highlights of Houston's GLBT history.
1958: Ray Hill came out Hair Balls could have easily filled our top five list of Houston GLBT moments with Ray Hill achievements alone, but we thought we'd go back to what started it all. In 1958 (which in gay history year
Photo by dunkvThe biggest surprise during yesterday's City Council Committee on Human Services and Technology meeting on BARC was not that it was three hours of meaningless bureaucratic babble -- Hair Balls had $50 on that -- but that the ghost of Dante Alighieri showed up. "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" he shouted over and over, before being escorted from chambers by security on grounds of possessing too much common sense.
The meeting -- which was also attended by mo
Photo by abcrumleyCity Council delayed voting again on extending the contract for Gerry Fusco, the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care's interim chief. Council members Ronald Green and Pam Holm asked that the vote be tabled. (Green told Hair Balls earlier this week that he hadn't read the contract yet). The $135,000 contract would extend Fusco's stay through January.But in a general discussion about the contract at today's council meeting, council members Ed Gonzalez, Sue Lovell, Toni L
Photo by abcrumleyCity Council once again delayed the vote on extending BARC Interim Chief Gerry Fusco's contract today, possibly killing any chance to revive the vote in the future. Fusco's initial agreement with the city, made possible via a $49,500 purchase order, expires Friday.Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kathy Barton, who was at the meeting, said she's not sure yet what effect the delay will have on retaining Fusco's services.
After weeks of delays, Council was expected t
