Time for a change
One threat of a special session averted, another arises
Burnam drops impeachment resolution
You say "succeed", I say "secede"
Annie's List kicks off the 2010 elections
Glass recycling
House approves windstorm insurance bill
The lack of leadership
Weekend link dump for May 31
Red light camera ban appears dead
Meet the robocallers
Extending the deadline
Saturday video break: Literally!
Van de Putte gearing up
Who should represent District H?
Budget heads to the Governor
The science of smog
Big John versus El Rushbo and The Newt
Friday random ten: Get your game on
Houston extends red light camera contract
Debutant's last post
Lon Burnam
Hey, world! Pay attention to us!
CHIP dies again
Hail to the king!
Senate spikes McLeroy
Senate passes windstorm bill
Gallery fire ruled arson
Unemployment insurance dies, CHIP lives
More on the City Council redistricting lawsuit dismissal
Still talking about a new jail
See you later, alligator
Anti-Metro amendment officially dead
The state of solar power
Clay Jenkins
Would-be Metro killer outs himself
Senate passes TxDOT sunset bill, red light cameras not dead yet
Terra Cotta Warriors
Pity and loathing
And so the chubbing comes to an end
Dems say they can block McLeroy
City Council redistricting lawsuit dismissed
Berman says he's in for Governor
A look at the District H runoff
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 25
The last day of chubbing
Perry's salvage job
Anti-Metro amendment removed
Green and Gonzalez get plaudits for climate change bill
"Near normal" hurricane season
Weekend link dump for May 24
Westpark zealots try to pull a fast one
City takes aim at more SOBs
Graduation rates
"Just do the test"
Where things stand in the House
The zombie nominee
RIP, Debutant
The power of burritos
Chubbing
Friday random ten: The state you're in
Gallery Furniture fire
Skinning a cat: Alternate methods
Parker on education
Endorsement watch: Three Senators for Locke
Intermodal Transit Center update
Budget yes, UI not yet
Roy takes my advice
Windstorm insurance bill passes House committee
Mattress Mack is watching you
Credit card reform
McLeroy confirmation lives again
Gearing up for the voter ID showdown
Endorsement watch: Yolanda backs Maverick
What, me secede?
Injunction issued against auto warranty robocallers
Outside agitation
Ogden stem cell rider removed from budget
RIP, statewide smoking ban
More on Radnofsky for AG
The squiggle
Falkenblog
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 18
You there! Put down the Internet and slowly back away!
The Senate TxDOT sunset bill is not the House TxDOT sunset bill
Whatever Ricky wants
The fees not paid
Two for Timothy Cole
Campaign finance bill passes the House
Weekend link dump for May 17
More on Gene Green and climate change
Threatened by opera
Grading the Houston mayoral campaign websites
Roundabout
Kuempel out of coma
Brown and Locke spar over education
Another win for CHIP
Villafranca loses in Farmers Branch
Travis Elementary closes for a week
A response from TAASA to the rape kits story
Friday random ten: Couldn't stand getting metaphysical
Voting right on climate change, take two
Poker bill dies
More unemployment funds available
Don't sell that beer just yet in Lubbock
Cohen pulls strip club bill
Microbrewery bill dead
Roy's self-inflation
Cornyn clueless about KBH
Mayor White's final budget
High school registrars
Auditor's report on TYC
Senate rejects Shanda Perkins
Why words matter
We need more early voting locations
Rep. Kuempel collapses at Capitol
More on the House attempt to kill red light cameras
More on Metro's costs
Ike, Ike, baby
Tuesday Lege roundup
School finance bill advances
There is now beer in Lubbock
Die, car warranty phone spammers! Die, die, die!
HPOU wants to get into the immigration business
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 11
Paying for rape kits
Monday Lege roundup
Voter ID passes out of House committee
Happy Ardmore Day
Challenging Chet
Safe Passing Act moving forward
Faking it convincingly
Weekend link dump for May 10
Metro's costs and critics
Statewide smoking ban still stuck
Voting right on climate change
Ed and Maverick in District H
Vote today
KBH will do whatever KBH will do
Post-mortem on UH-Downtown name change
Updates on some criminal justice bills
Friday random ten: Now with more randomness
Smith caves in to the Browns
Sunsetting TxDOT
Poker bill coming to a vote
Projecting District H
Garcia's plan to fix the jails
Is there a Medicaid issue or not?
Roger that
Joe for Galveston
"Houston Have Your Say" on the economy
Perry's poll
TRCC survives sunsetting
You kids hang up and drive!
More candidates
No sunset for SBOE
IG for DPS
Bell lawsuit against Perry advances
Voter ID still pending
Can't wait to see the transcript of this one
Donations and appointments
Scaling back steroid testing in the schools
Cottage foods update
Watch out for Medicaid
Interim DPS director retiring
Microbrewery bill passes out of committee
"Blogger bill" passes out of House committee
Last day of early voting for the May elections
Burka on the Census and redistricting
The poll tax
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 4
Tuition reregulation passes the Senate
Windstorm insurance changes
Altering Houston term limits
Dynamo moving forward
Omnibus gambling bill gets committee approval
More heat on the BCS
In Lubbock, there is no beer
Build it here, flood it there
Weekend link dump for May 3
Allen Fletcher
Senate approves SUPERTRAIN study
Electronic textbooks
Burnam makes his case in the papers
"Quality Rock"
Saturday video break
Patrick forced to moderate his ultrasound bill
Endorsement watch: Ed for H
Is there still hope for the microbreweries?
Wendy Davis
Comics criticism
Juan Garcia takes a job in the Obama administration
Followup on the Keller impeachment resolution
Friday random ten: The whole enchilada
Early voting in District H
Endorsement watch: Bring on the funk
Big education bills pass
I hate you! I need disaster relief!
Crimes against goats
Bait and switch on Voter ID
First they came for the science books...
And here we have the "compromise" voter ID legislation
Statewide smoking ban stalled
Poker bill in trouble?
"Groundless" campaign finance complaints
Separating the Permanent School Fund from the SBOE
The voter ID "compromise" bill
Clean Air update
The Speaker speaks, and a Voter ID update
CHIP and Medicaid advance
I hate you! Now gimme some money!
Get ready for the next school funding lawsuit
The Keller impeachment resolution
House committee passes SB1569
Specter switches
Senators versus TCEQ
Microbrewers likely to come up short again
Is the Lege going back on red light cameras?
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 27
House budget conferees announced
Help choose the next HISD Superintendent
Statewide race for Earle?
Endorsement watch: Castro for San Antonio
Two legislator stories
Sanctions sought for deadline-missing attorney
I hate you! Please help me!
Weekend link dump for April 26
Chron District H overview
It only hurts when it happens to you
More on the SUPERTRAIN
Senate passes Safe Passing bill
Tweet it! The cops!
Busy day yesterday
More Tier I schools
The Mayorals and gambling
The sanctity of marriage personified
Stand Up To Help Bloggers Get Needed Protections Under Texas Law
Friday random ten: If at first you don't secede...
More on Lonnie Allsbrooks
Perry's ongoing war on the unemployed
Videotaping interrogations
Where the stimulus funds are going
It would be OK with me if all those who favor it decide to leave
The Senate fundraising scorecard so far
Everyone has an opinion on Kay and Rick
House hearing set on Keller impeachment resolution
Sometimes the clock is your friend
HISD: Not must-see TV
Prius problems
Mutombo says his career is over
Another chance to slap the Governor
Another contender for At Large #1
Is it that bogged down already?
Go Solar Texas
You sure you can afford that attorney?
Texas secession: Views differ
Keep your eye on the ball, Tom
Either way, they still get paid
The Freeland Historic district
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 20
Senate passes SB1569, but may not be able to override a veto
Here comes the SUPERTRAIN
Gay rights support in Houston
Hey, at least it's not an L
Statewide smoking ban update
Impeach Jay Bybee
Weekend link dump for April 19
But I'm not
Hey, remember when we were gonna reform county ethics?
The new Hermann Park train
Voter ID must be reviewed
BAR for AG
How about a little salvage?
House passes budget, slaps Perry
White wins one from EPA
Seventeen casinos?
"With Brinkley and Huntley describing contrapuntally the cities we have lost"
TYD convention
Friday random ten: When the going gets tough, the tough download some free tunes
Stem cells and the budget battle
Casey on City Council redistricting
Funding the state cancer research initiative
Now how much would you pay to get rid of those immigrants?
Senate approves stimulus funds for unemployment insurance
Perry walks back secession talk
Perry says "Look at me!"
Extending Medicaid
Revisiting the FLDS saga
Katy Freeway managed lanes set to open
White rakes it in for his Senate bid
Vasquez responds to Coleman and Hernandez
Clipping the SBOE
Doing the easy part
From the "Silver Linings" department
Neil talks to Noel
Dems versus Vasquez
Kinky makes it official
Last candidate forums for District H
Public financing for judicial races
No Tigua casinos
What next for Wilshire Village?
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 13
The Onion takes on Betty Brown
Settlement in UTMB lawsuit
Ethics and campaign finance bills to get their turn
Presidential results by Congressional district
More Ramey Ko
Whose TIRZ?
Matt Baker indicted
Happy Easter!
Weekend link dump for April 12
Measuring hurricanes
UI update
Johnny Sutton resigns
Sexting and the law
Ramey Ko speaks
Court issues injunction against DPS over drivers license rules
Mayoral Musings
Friday random ten: Good songs
Rep. Brown's apology
Taking taxation aversion to its logical extreme
Senate passes clean air bill
Won't somebody please think of the mollusks?
What's in a name, Betty Brown style
Registration deadline for District H
Council OKs TIRZ deal for Regent Square
Keller's day in court set for August
Mainframing
Not dead yet
The Ike Dike
CLC gambling update
A letter to the President
Radack's Hill
America's Least Wasteful Cities
Oh by the way, the unemployment trust fund is going broke
House panel passes its budget
Precinct analysis: The City Council districts revised
More on Day One of the House hearings on voter ID
Rodney Ellis
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 6
Blaming the nuns
There's always an excuse to not do it
Candidate interview: Ed Gonzalez
Voter ID begins in the House today
Litt announces for At Large #1
It's the end of the world as Louie Gohmert knows it
ITL and OTL
Weekend link dump for April 5
Early voting schedule and locations for District H
City scores another SOB victory
Eri Yoshida
Banning trans fats
Two immigration stories
HISD to broadcast some meetings
DCCC targeting CD10
More on the alternate strip club tax
Friday random ten: Once more to the well
Let the gloves come off
Alternate strip club fee bill passes House
Danno says his vote on redistricting commission was a mistake
RIP, Andy Hallett
Lampson to NASA?
Poker bill passes out of House committee
Precinct analysis: The City Council districts
Senate passes budget
Dallas Dems look to 2010
Descendants of Olivewood
House passes veto override resolution
Stimulus package, Council-style
Candidate interview: Hugo Mojica
TPJ files complaints against Keller
Women's Professional Soccer
Cottage foods
Senate committee passes unemployment insurance reform
Innocence, exoneration, and compensation
"Play to extinction"
Senate panel approves budget
What else have you not told us, Sharon?
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 30
Cornymandias
Let the shenanigans begin!
Candidate interview: Maverick Welsh
Regional crime lab
The Heflin plan for voter ID
The TRCC should be sunsetted
Weekend link dump for March 29
Which Republicans do you have in mind for that?
UTMB versus Shriners
Solar power
Slowdown at the Mint
No hog hunting
Win some, lose some for science
The Statesman on the state of beer in Texas
Friday random ten, Hawaiian style
You have the right to an attorney, but it doesn't have to be of your choosing
A setback for Shriners
Making reregistration easier
Redistricting commission advances
Strengths and weaknesses fails
Your eyes may deceive you
Locke to formally announce today
Response from the racetracks
OK, you can use some stimulus money on rail
Red light camera revenues unspent
Ogden's stem cell skulduggery
Chronicle cuts
Keller blames others for her actions
Candidate interview: Gonzalo Camacho
The "strengths and weaknesses" showdown
Voter ID coming to the House
Good times and bad for museums
Dynamo Stadium funding almost secured
How much money would expanded gambling generate?
If UTMB, why not Shriners?
We want more regulation!
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 23
Let the results speak for themselves
Meet Tom Schieffer
Candidate interview: Lupe Garcia
Time to throw out the first attack mailer of the season
Missing deadlines in capital cases
"Gone With the Big Wind"
Weekend link dump for March 22
Property values declining
"What's Medicaid?"
Algae in our future
Not everybody isn't hiring
We keep on growing
Bruno and Dr. No
Friday random ten: Life is skittles and life is beer
Coleman pushing for CHIP restoration
Shorter to challenge Lovell
That other budget
Operation Border Star
Stimulus? What stimulus?
More on the AG and the LRB
UTMB rehiring
Blue laws
The best news I've heard all session
Senate OKs needle exchange
Red, white, blue, and hopefully back
Candidate interview: Yolanda Navarro Flores
Ultrabad
Holm announces for Controller
Senate wraps up voter ID
Public Service Announcements department
Planning the workaround
Coup? What coup?
Reminder: GHDC District H candidate forum
No open carry
Dems seek repeal of new DPS rules
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 16
Union Bar reaches resolution with GLBT community
No voter ID today
Is there a revolt brewing against Straus?
Candidate interview: Rick Rodriguez
Why it really is about suppressing the vote
A better idea for the Grand Parkway
More on the end of the sixty-five percent rule
Weekend link dump for March 15
More on the Union Bar
The World Cup in Houston?
"Strengths and weaknesses" rears its head again
Green clean
Your weekend moment of Zen
No service for gays
Parker versus Perry
Them's good eatin'
The dentist in charge
Friday random ten: Special guest star edition
Who will be affected by voter ID?
On DNA testing and innocence
For the money, I sure hope so
Lege versus Gov on unemployment funds
Once more with the stimulus and unemployment insurance
Recycling reboot
Activist running in Farmers Branch
There is a solution, you just don't see it
Money for movies
If he can't testify, he shouldn't redistrict
Voter ID: That's it for now
Voter ID: On to day two
Derr to run for At Large #1
"Houston first"
UTMB hospital to stay in Galveston
Commissioners Court OKs Grand Parkway Segment E work
Voter ID: All through the night
Today's the day for Voter ID in the Senate
UTMB layoff lawsuit update
The "Dollhouse" dilemma
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 9
What you can do today to fight against the Voter ID bill
Safe Passing Act in the Senate
Two stories about gambling
Kinky says he's getting ready to run
Weekend link dump for March 8
I'm gonna save me some daylight
NYT on Keller
Always government handouts
Catastrophic, year 2
More on the deputy drivers
Time again to support your local microbrewer
Crosstown (rail) traffic
Friday random ten: You say "70s throwback" as if it were a bad thing
Activists tell TxDOT to slow down and be open
The Tour de Houston
On gerrymandering and partisanship
Morrison speaks on the Grand Parkway
Is the TAKS test at the end of the line?
Metro approves contract with Parsons
Driver!
Brennan's to reopen
Form-based codes come to Dallas
Derr misses filing deadline
Dewhurst makes the case against voter ID
Is redistricting reform about to become a reality?
Let's see those files
Texas lawmakers on Twitter
Metro to vote on rail contract
Here comes stimulus money
Bill filed to modify strip club fee
To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 2
Schieffer jumps in
Interview with State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte
Blow before you drive
The stimulus and the budget
The real Coke classic
Weekend link dump for March 1
Is there an Ashby highrise lawsuit coming?
Reason #437 why I'm skeptical of the gambling industry
From the "As if you didn't have enough things to worry about" department
They paid their taxes, too
Downtown post office for sale
In the long run, we're all dead
Friday random ten: The eighties strike back
Help celebrate 27 for 27
One more PPP poll
Another City Council lineup update
Search openly
Grand Parkway Segment E gets a go-ahead
Will we or won't we fix unemployment insurance?
Voter ID debate set for the Senate
PPP on the Texas Senate race
The sad state of sex education in Texas
Catch the WAve
The Riddler goes on a rampage
Bradford announces for At Large #4, Pennington announces in G
Expanded gambling: It isn't just for race tracks any more
Keller gets an extension
Bills about cellphones and driving
The primaries matter, too
More SJL rumors
KBH leads Perry in early poll
Interview with Vidal Martinez and John Castillo
Gambling poll
Sixty-five percent of nothing
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 23
Council campaign miscellania
Son of Speaker complaining
ULI Mayoral candidate forum report
Hey, you - wanna run for judge?
Green to announce for City Controller
Steroid madness
Ellis and Crownover on the smoking ban
Weekend link dump for February 22
Pity the poor Astrodome
A step forward for Houston-Galveston rail
The whys and wherefores of bus rapid transit
The case for Van de Putte
Wilshire Village declared a fire hazard
The case against Keller
Our Hispanic future
Why does Governor Perry hate sex toys?
Friday random ten: You say it's your birthday
Roy announces
Van de Putte profile
The HTA and the Times
CSI: Needs Improvement
Judicial conduct commission moves against Keller
Metro vote on light rail contract delayed
I say it's my birthday
The Census and City Council redistricting
Stimulus for the schools
Reading and writing and social networking
So about those stimulus funds
Shady Acres candidate forum report
Voter ID already moving in the Senate
All DNA, all the time
More on the safe passing bill
Another step forward for a statewide smoking ban
TSTA poll on public education
A tale of two Orlandos
Mardi Gras Galveston
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 16
Burnam files resolution to impeach Justice Keller
Poll Texas
Stardig announces in A
Some action on the rail construction front
Tough times for local governments
Please listen to Hank
Microbrewers to try again
RIP, Terry Hayes
Weekend link dump for February 15
Apparently, the sky really is falling
Multiways
A peek inside Astrodome Studios
Movie night of the future
Brown's announcement coming
Red light camera watch: League City
OneSpot
Friday random ten: Beginning to see the light
More on the city council redistricting lawsuit
So much for the Fort Bend-Medical Center shuttle
District Clerk update
On rudeness
Committee assignment reactions
Lawsuit filed to force city to redistrict
House committee assignments are out
More on Schieffer
Strip club fee back in court
Video report from UH-Downtown renaming meeting
Debutant posts
Wilshire Village update
If you're going to reform it, reform it right
District H candidate forum in Shady Acres
More transportation conversation
Close enough for computer work
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 9
SJL rumors
Roy is in
We'll always have bottlenecks
Deregulation fail
Cleaning up the bay
Over/under
Will we get a piece of the stimulus?
Locke is in, Hall is out
District H CIP meeting report
"Highway piracy"
Give bikes a little space
Monday morning Mayoral intrigue
The reason we need a credible Democratic candidate for Governor, in a nutshell
Weekend link dump for February 8
The ongoing UH-Downtown renaming saga
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
The Lege versus the BCS
Jim Sharp investiture
More big bucks for Bill White
Rep. Thibaut
Handmade Toy Alliance wins a stay
Pete Sessions and the Taliban
Friday random ten: Flight of the Genius
Wilshire Village Apartments
Craddick's cleanup
A piece of the stimulus pie for Metro
And the answer is...more cameras (maybe)
Parker polls, King drops out
First impressions
That Gallup poll of partisan preferences
Is KBH overstating her support?
The next US Attorney in Houston
Hurricane relief spending
Ed Gonzalez kickoff event
Saavedra to step down
A list of who has actually filed treasurer's reports so far
Reliant roof repaired
Memorial Park bridge
Exonerating the deceased
Heights crime prevention townhall report
Two challengers for Dunbar
Report: Most elected officials refuse to contribute to their own prosecution
More on lowering the drinking age
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 2
Parker to announce for Mayor today
White gets to a big fundraising start
Evolution in action
Time for a Saint Arnold update
Weekend link dump for February 1
Locke files his treasurer's report
Crime prevention townhall meeting
Big (gun)man on campus
Round and round we go with City Council redistricting
Senate committees
Healthcare Workshop
How much would you pay for that post office?
Friday random ten: Still more new music
Critics claim camera study shenanigans
Another lawsuit filed against DPS
A SUPERTRAIN for Texas?
Let's always elect our Senators
Blogging for "Houston Have Your Say 2.0"
House adopts rules
Houston Have Your Say 2.0
Election date set for District H
California breathin'
Fish farming in the Gulf?
Don't fear a fight with KBH
So much for the wine bar
Talk to them about helmet laws
Who are you calling a knucklehead?
So how's the state of our state?
CIP meeting for District H
Innocence
The state of the state 2009
City Council lineup update
The border camera boondoggle blues
One more reason to be glad he's in Dallas and not here
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 26
Swearingen gets a stay
Harris County tackles jail overcrowding
It's 2009 and we're still arguing about CHIP
Derr files, Bradford contemplates
Lobby money
The lap bands of Collin County
Weekend link dump for January 25
Kay and Rick, Rick and Kay
Here we go again with City Council redistricting
Armstrong versus secondhand smoke
The Speaker speaks
Chron coverage of yesterday's SBOE actions
Not so Tolerance Bridge
HIWI presents "Ike: The Book"
Update on yesterday's evolution happenings
Friday random ten: We the people
Beware Lt. Govs bearing gifts
More on Larry Swearingen
We have the beginnings of a budget
Evolution remains legal in Texas
When you look up "short-sighted" in the dictionary, this will be cited as an example
More on streetcars and sidewalks
UH-Downtown to move ahead with name change
How many wrongly convicted people are there in prison?
You there! Stop evolving this minute!
And now the real work begins
Musical chairs
Now how much would you pay for that toll road?
The case for freight rail
Filing report: Noel Freeman
Whitehouse.gov
Hail to the Chief
Cisneros for Governor?
Representative Walle
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 19
Let the candidate filings begin!
Rebuilding the seawall
Evan Smith's 2012 reality check
From the "It's not what you say, it's how you say it" department
As The Court Turns
Weekend link dump for January 18
The fifty dollar flop
Early contender for District A
Generation whatever
Judge sides with Garcia on fired employees
More on voter ID and the House
For uniform early voting hours
Friday random ten: New music, take two
Day Of Service - Call for Action
Kay and Rick on the money
The state of the city 2009
There are still a few Republican grownups left
Pennies from HCTRA
Non-profit social media
Miles found not guilty
The calm after the storm
One more step for Dynamo Stadium
Special election date for District H not set yet
Waiting for KBH, the saga continues
S-CHIP passes the House again
DPS sued over new drivers license rules
Voter ID is the single most important issue facing Texas today
Hey, there's an idea!
Birthday party for Rick Noriega
Streetcars and the next step for Houston transit
The silliness shifts to the Senate
Don't forget Frew
Grand jury investigating Clemens
Straus swears in and the Lege stands down
Does it look like it's raining to you?
We'll have the Treasurer to kick around awhile longer
National ban on phoning while driving urged
Supreme Court declines to hear TDP's appeal in voting machine suit
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 12
Strayhorn makes it official
Rickey and Rice
That sound you hear is state revenues falling
Weingarten, neighbors settle
The Chron on the Straus effect
Open Letter to Artisans and Authors Regarding CPSIA
Bye-bye, DRM
Weekend link dump for January 11
No drivers license for you!
The bad times are coming
Gambling and Speaker Straus
The sales tax slowdown
The wind farms are running
Prison reform
Friday random ten: New year, new music
The state of Texas is about to execute an innocent man
More contenders
Pierre claims uncounted votes in his lawsuit
A little schadenfreude before the session begins
More on the Handmade Toy Alliance
Republican women write letters
Utah AG wants to sue BCS
Where the business margins tax money came from
Can this city be saved?
Thor goes pro
Quit stealing my recyclables!
From the "Two wrongs don't make a right" department
Garcia talks recruitment again
The Speakership and redistricting
Schecter for Council?
Skilling to get a new sentence
Washington Quiet Zone
RIP, TTC
Saavedra backs off magnet transportation plan
No Heights Village
Harris County GOP turns to the Internet
The Handmade Toy Alliance
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 6
What might we expect with Straus?
Five years of the Main Street Line
Sheriff Garcia asks for more recruits
The "scourge" of straight-ticket voting
College issues
Thus endeth the Tom Craddick era
The Straus list
Is this really the end for Craddick?
Weekend link dump for January 4
Straus says he has the votes
Third Court absolves itself again
Study claims smoking ban leads to fewer heart attack deaths
The gas tax
We have a contender. Now what?
Rep.-elect Walle to hold town hall meetings
A pardon for Clemens?
RIP, Sharon Levine
Straus for Speaker?
Friday random ten: My sister's list
Speaker strategizing
Was the red light camera study flawed?
The border fence versus nature
Sharp makes it official
Meet the new bosses
More on e-waste recycling
RIP, Penthouse Club
End of the year Speaker race update
Texan of the Year 2008
Will the Lege go green?
McLane: Please regulate me!
Texas Voices gets an ally
School finance: Sorta kinda important to the Lege
Houston's red light camera numbers
More on the Dems' anti-Craddick list
End of the year Texas blog roundup
The sixty-four member question
Seeking iTunes help again
Voter registration separation
One for a million
Dude, where's my train?
Weekend link dump for December 28
Another day, another Speaker candidate
Is high-speed rail in Texas' future?
Pancho Claus
Make your check payable to
Lawsuit filed over red light camera study
E-waste recycling
City and county lobbying
Friday random ten: Sleigh bells ring
Statewide smoking ban proposed
The Madoff scandal and the Innocence Project
Another Mayor for Senate?
UTSA football
And may all your Christmases be white
A little Christmas spirit in Grapevine
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night
As always, Merry Christmas, Mel Torme
Commissioners agree to Dynamo Stadium funding
Moving to Texas
Walker withdraws election contest
More red light cameras for The Woodlands
Yet another Farmers Branch lawsuit
Vasquez officially selected to replace Bettencourt
75 declared anti-Craddick votes?
Casino gambling for Galveston?
Layoffs for you, bonuses for me
Has driving peaked?
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 22
HHSC extends Medicaid coverage
Possibly my last post about the 2010 Governor's race this year
Gray on the latest Weingarten kerfuffle
Bike racks on trains: Not looking good
District H update
Tragedy for family of State Rep. Robert Alonzo
Weekend link dump for December 21
Saving the water wall
Toys for Tots
Fort Worth considers streetcars
Meet your blogger
More on Leo Vasquez
Another casualty of Ike
Commit for Life blog
From the "What might have been" files
Friday random ten: Karaoke!
On the agenda for Commissioners Court
TRCC escapes the axe
From the Department of Bad Ideas
Christine DeLay gets subpoenaed
Election challenge in HD11
Bettencourt deadline looms
Your name here for Governor in 2010
TxDOT says: We need money!
Statesman calls on Dunbar to resign
RIP, Sammy Baugh
TxDOT gets sunsetted
The University of Something Else
More on Bill White's Senate announcement
Economy affecting school bonds
Making movies on location
"BCS champion", not "national champion"
Huffman defeats Bell
White officially announces
Today is Runoff Day
Some sloppy Senate reporting
El Paso versus the border fence
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 15
Rally to rebuild UTMB
Shift? What shift?
More on magnet schools
Accenture, Texas finalize divorce
This week's Speaker scenario
The unthreatening sex offender next door
Some dirty tricks in the SD17 runoff
Weekend link dump for December 14
Dallas extends smoking ban
Booster seats
Galveston takes a step forward on commuter rail
Weingarten's bait and switch
"Recycle Ike" winner
White for Senate
Friday random ten: Let's get groovy
Gallegos and Van de Putte criticize DSCC
Dems drop legal challenge to Harper-Brown
Will the last member to file for Speaker please turn out the lights?
Green lights
One hundred feet
Lawsuit filed over rejected voter registrations
Yes, it really did snow in Houston last night
Followup on the Libertarian effect in the House
From the "Everything old is new again" files
Privatized parking
More Senate scrambling
More Bettencourt
Get on the bus for Bell
TxDOT asks to be stimulated
Precinct analysis: North by northwest
Julian Castro announces for San Antonio Mayor
Gas prices down, ridership up
Tough times for recycling
Magnet school transportation
Precinct analysis: The appeals courts
Commissioners Court starts considering replacements for Bettencourt
Early voting is going on now in SD17
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 8
Sharp is in for Senate, whenever that is
The financial crisis and the Astrodome Hotel
A look ahead to 2010 in Harris County
King for Council?
Gen. Shinseki to head Veterans Affairs
Another UH-Downtown renaming update
Weekend link dump for December 7
Bettencourt speaks
Endorsement watch: Bell again
HD105 recount concluded
Tolerance Bridge
Still more on Bettencourt
A little more on Bettencourt
The Kay and Rick show gets ready to take it on the road
The Cynthia Chronicles
Bettencourt resigning
Bell on the air
Friday random ten: No Genius for you!
City projects lower revenues
There is no surplus
Is that really how much it costs?
Remake my day
A message from the Bell campaign
More on the Hill survey
KBH forms exploratory committee
Poll shows Democrats gaining ground in Texas
CHC pushes Noriega for Veterans Affairs
Ethics complaint filed against Craddick
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd
Now is an excellent time to give blood
The long-awaited red light camera study
Noel Freeman announces for At Large race
Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker Series Doubleheader
Precinct analysis: Go west, young candidate
That other recount
Keep Houston Rich
Chuck walks
Lawsuit filed over UTMB firings
HD105 recount lawsuit moves to federal court
Rep. Green requests lawsuit dismissal
Precinct analysis: Even in his own back yard
They're not just sidearms, they're accessories
More ways to measure hurricanes
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 1
RIP, Houston Comets
Cheney indictments tossed
Early voting locations for the SD17 runoff
How steep is that hill?
Precinct analysis: It's Gene Green's world
The Mayor's Austin agenda
Be careful what you're thankful for
Smoke 'em if you got 'em in Dallas
Weekend link dump for November 30
The state of the Speaker's race in a nutshell
The Ten Ugliest Buildings in Downtown Houston
Red light camera study coming
The twelfth Senator
Tofu tamales
Friday random ten: A little jazzy, but not too much
There's a new Sheriff in town
Metro ads
Frying turkeys
HD105 litigation update
Perry to whine to Obama about the environment
Business tax: Still short
Precinct analysis: Some other views
More racist emails surface
Pardon me?
Noriega to Washington?
HD105 recount litigation
Precinct analysis: The microcosm
More swearing-in ceremonies
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 24
Precinct analysis: What we've learned so far
The Chron on the red light camera car registration plan
Mammoth DNA update
Weekend link dump for November 23
Roy!
The Internet is good for kids
The fight goes on for Debutant
Pounding the table
Electric cars
More school zone cellphone banning
Friday random ten - TGIF
RIP, Jim Mattox
Waiting for Bill
SBOE urged to not weaken science standards
The Junior Olympics are coming
Where's the DA?
Precinct analysis: The Richmond Rail Effect 2008
Pay that ticket or you can't register your car
Another Final Four for Houston
Hand over that BlackBerry, Mister President
More on the Cheney indictment
Precinct analysis: CD07
Metro asks for help with its loans
Let scientists be scientists
Yet another Speaker candidate
Cheney, Gonzalez indicted in South Texas
Calling all overlords!
Precinct analysis: The declining Republican brand
Meet the new District Clerk
No King?
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 17
Election date set for SD17
IBM is the new Accenture
Precinct analysis: The Obama effect
Time to gear up for Chris Bell
The Riddler versus the undocumented
Cibrian in San Antonio
Putting Houston on the right track
Weekend link dump for November 16
A word on voter registration numbers
One indecisive grandma
Lone Star Times calls on Dunbar to apologize
More on UT domestic partner benefits
Zero Waste Day
The Dynamo Stadium rally
From the "Predictions that didn't quite pan out" department
The Kino factor
The counting is over
Help a blogger out
Dynamo Stadium and Commissioners Court
Precinct data: Coming attractions
Travis County Attorney investigating Dewhurst
A hippie bohemian setback
Bye-bye, bubbles
You can't keep a tough grandma down
Bye-bye, AGDs
RIP, Mac the elephant
Where - and when - the vote was
Democrats sue Bettencourt over provisional ballots
One more for the Dynamo Stadium bandwagon
Recount in HD105
Domestic Partner benefits at UT
Craddick still has his fans
When will it be Texas' turn?
Republicans hold HD105
Still looking for more Final Fours
It'll be 2010 before you know it
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 10
Happy pre-filing day!
Houston versus the AGDs
So was there an HGLBT endorsement backlash?
That horse is dead. Please stop beating it.
Three more names for District H
Republican recriminations
Weekend link dump for November 9
Only provisional ballots left to go
Don't text and drive in Austin
Time for Bell v. Huffman
The next special election
Lloyd Kelley update
Friday random ten: Don't cross the streams, but do cross the genres
Let the speculation for 2010 begin!
And speaking of Dynamo Stadium
Vince and Brad
And for our next trick with the SBOE
The Speaker's race is officially underway
The big urbans and the big suburbans revisited
So what happened to the turnout?
KBH: Why not both?
Hey, remember when we were gonna build a soccer stadium?
My court will go on
Some more early thoughts on what happened
Some early thoughts on what happened
At the end of the day
Tightening
Fort Bend
Early results around the state
Early Harris County results are in!
Where to get started
A vote for voting today
A complete list of interviews for this election
All my judicial Q&As
The big urbans and the big suburbans
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 3
Report voting conditions and problems using Twitter
Just vote
SOS estimates nine million voters
Only fools make predictions
Interview with Mark Thompson
Coattails and turnout in Harris County
You hunker down. I'm bugging out.
The urban Costco
Look out for the last minute attacks
Weekend link dump for November 2
"Mommy! He's hitting back!"
Are you ready for the Speaker's race?
Endorsement watch: "The Wire" meets The Financial Times
Score one for Duncanville
Early voting: Right on target
Endorsement watch: That's a wrap
A legislative threefer
Watch out for that bus, Tony
A cornucopia of late night electoral tidbits
RIP, Fred Baron
Friday random ten: And now a short break from politics
Early voting: Did I mention today is the last day?
Endorsement watch: The "We just realized there's only one day of early voting left" edition
Prognosticating with the stars
The argument for campaign finance reform in Texas, in a nutshell
One way to deal with sign stealers
One last UT poll
Early voting: Over a half-million served
Endorsement watch: Have you always been concerned about that?
eSlate hate
Chron overview of the RRC race
Me on your teevee on Tuesday
Early voting: Still following the pattern
Interview with Larry Joe Doherty
Endorsement watch: Skelly and Hinojosa
Chron overview of the Commissioners Court race
You won't need to register that bike
Eight days out
"Love Boat", Harris County GOP style
Early voting: A little slower, but still strong
The Katy's grand re-opening
Candidate Q&A: Robert Schaffer
Endorsement watch: Opie Cunningham
Chron overview of the CCA races
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 27
He's guilty
Campaigns respond to Chron polling
Early voting: Weekend edition
Chron polling in Congressional races
A list of interviews to date
Endorsement watch: Still to go
The Republican case against Tom Craddick
Sign stealing
Chron overview of SD17
Weekend link dump for October 26
Endorsement watch: The line in the sand
More Chron polling: Most Dems lead in the county races
Rick Noriega on Texas Monthly Talks
Early voting: Making history
The Chron does some polling
Chron overview of Skelly v. Culberson
Polaroid
Friday random ten: Putting it all together
Early voting Day Four: Same as it ever was
"Banned from the ballot box"
Endorsement watch: County Judge
Chron overview of the District Clerk race
One last Texas poll
Chron overview of CD22
Early voting Day Three: Strong and consistent
If you're going to say it, stand behind it
Candidate Q&A: Mike Engelhart
Endorsement watch: Appeals courts
Making financial disclosures public
The state of beer in Texas
TAKS changes coming
Curbside recycling to start again
Early voting, Day Two: Still going strong
Interview with Richard Morrison
Endorsement watch: Garcia and Noriega
TAB cops a plea
The ethics plan finally gets introduced
Endorsement watch: Three for Larry Joe
Two weeks out, time for the sleazy attack mailers
More on Day One of early voting
Endorsement watch: Um, nobody?
Still talking about buried power lines
Will someone please poll Harris County?
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 20
Theresa's taxes
Early voting, Day One: Very busy
I'm sorry, so sorry...
Early voting starts today
Interview with Rep. Nick Lampson
Endorsement watch: District Attorney
The Supreme Court money race
Still no love for the Ashby highrise
A little late night viewing
Endorsement watch: Colin Powell
Weekend link dump for October 19
Endorsement watch: Once in a lifetime
The continuing Republican pie fight in SD17
The term limit battle in San Antonio
Some late night reminders
Vote early, if you can
Endorsement watch: The WaPo and the ChiTrib for Obama
Endorsement watch: Montemayor and Cohen
R2K TX-SEN poll: Noriega within 6
Vote early but pick your spot
Friday random ten: That's more like it
Deadline looming for the hippie bohemian attorneys
Interview with Joe Montemayor
Campaign finances for the Congressional races
How would you recycle all that?
If you're going to vote straight ticket, just vote straight ticket
Ibarra brothers sue Lloyd Kelley
Early Vote rally preview
Et tu, Mike?
Candidate Q&A: Larry Weiman
Endorsement watch: Two out of three ain't bad
Endorsement watch: More for Strawn and more
And the Democratic perspective
Kennedy and Edwards for the HDCC
It wasn't me, it was my evil twin!
Endorsement watch: Nick Lampson
Interview with Kristi Thibaut
The Third Court soap opera
Hold that registration!
The cult of Buc-ees
If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound on the judge
Endorsement watch: Planned Parenthood
The GOP aims downballot
Candidate Q&A: Peter Rene
Endorsement watch: Jaworski and Vo
Houston Pavilions update
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 13
Mark your calendars
Endorsement watch: More court action
Endorsement watch: State Board of Education
Interview with Rick Noriega
The border fence boondoggle blues
Another poll shows a competitive race in CD07
Plaintiff against Sheriff's office no-billed
Chron overview of the DA race
Weekend link dump for October 12
Endorsement watch: County Attorney
Don't mess with Juanita
Count everybody
Endorsement watch: The Chron still loves John
And in those other Senate debates
Curbside recycling still on hold
Nostalgia alert
Friday random ten: Blues Genius
Endorsement watch: Texas' worst court
Noriega v. Cornyn, round 1
Interview with Jim Henley
Harris County countywide candidates' 30 day finance reports
License to drive
RIP-to-be: Opus the penguin
Galveston early voting locations
Endorsement watch: More Supreme Court
Look out, Fulshear, here we come
Candidate Q&A: Bert Moser
Mighty big pile of debris you've (still) got there
Billboards today, AGDs tomorrow
Why lotteries make me queasy, continued
HCDP08 video: "This is our time"
Harris County campaign finance reports, 30 days out
Endorsement watch: The Chron gets in the game
Gene Locke
Interview with Joe Jaworski
Council still looking at convention center hotel options
The Obama effect in Park Cities
Duncanville's war on swingers continues
The Big Dog for Bell
The traffic lights are working again
Candidate Q&A: Hazel Jones
The state of the lottery: Booooooring!
It's debatin' season
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 6
Appeals court tosses Brimer's suit
Endorsement watch: ParentPAC for Sherrie Matula
Where the voters are being registered
No super precincts in Galveston
Interview with Sherrie Matula
The current overview of the County Judge race
State Senate staffer salaries
Don't mess with Alaska
Weekend link dump for October 5
Once again with the electrical infrastructure
Tell me what that big yellow thing in the sky is again
"The Strangerer"
New Mersenne prime found
Voter registration may not reach 2004 levels in Harris County
New CD10 poll has Doherty within five
The city's plan to cut greenhouse gases
Endorsement watch: The DMN on the CCA
Friday random ten: How station managers do it these days
Mighty big pile of debris you've got there
The Sheriff debate does go on
Endorsement watch: TLCV and Parent PAC
Someday, I hope we have clean air
Olson gets his vote around
Michelle Obama wants you to register to vote
Endorsement watch: Mayorbob for Bradford
Brimer versus Davis in court today
The Woodlands needs your help!
Candidate Q&A: Kyle Carter
Election Procedures and Information Following Hurricane Ike (repost)
Nine million voters?
No texting while driving in California
Rasmussen September Texas polls
Will the Sheriff candidates debate?
Interview with Dexter Handy
Voting in Galveston
City wins billboard lawsuit
Fence finds funding
Voter registration deadline is Monday
Mayor White: Not so fast on that plant permit
A more direct way to help
HISD versus Saavedra
Candidate Q&A: Leslie Taylor
Is the light beginning to dawn on Farmers Branch?
Clement to Dillard for the score
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 29
Those chickens haven't hatched yet. You sure you want to count them?
Interview with Trey Fleming
Chron overview of the Sheriff race
CenterPoint and the trees
Olivia meets Leonardo
Weekend link dump for September 28
The still missing
Extend the voter registration deadline
Brimer and the banks
Rep. Green's mess
Power to the people - Working for the weekend
RIP, Paul Newman
The DA candidates - and those other guys - debate
Interviewing
Benefit for Brennan's
Friday random ten: Genius!
Power to the people: The people are still waiting
Congressman No
The undocumented reconstruction workers
Brazoria Dems HQ reopening
And so we come to the end...
Harris County sample ballot
State House race roundup
Waiting for KBH: A step in the Senate
TexBlog PAC endorses Robert Miklos
The TRCC sunset hearings
Texas Monthly talks to Rick Noriega
I got those bad asset blues
Last Davis-Brimer hearing to be held next week
"Best of Houston" 2008
Endorsement watch: Don't change a thing!
Power and water to the people update
Interview with Adrian Garcia
Supreme Court denies Barr lawsuit
Dinner fundraiser for Rick Noriega
Cook on the Palin Effect downballot
Billions and billions
Will Ike mean fewer billboards?
Public defender plan to be reviewed
It's "Guess the endorsement" time again
Blue America Senate contest
The dinosaur mummy rescheduled
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 22
Election Procedures and Information Following Hurricane Ike
Ike changes local campaigns
Interview with Rep. Ellen Cohen
Are you ready for higher electric bills?
MLB to Astros: Sorry about that
The Odd Fellow resurgence
The bailout
Weekend link dump for September 21
I said, power to the people!
Can we please wave bye-bye?
Are you ready for some football with Barack Obama?
Family photos
Wind insurance
Power to the people
UH Downtown renaming update
Get to know your State Board of Education
RIP, Cary Winscott
Barr to county clerks: Don't mail those ballots!
Donor fatigue
Home
Ashby update
Rally for health care reform
TPJ files complaint against "checks aren't cash" judge
Candidate Q&A: Randy Roll
The missing
Voter registration at an all-time high
Brimer lawsuit moved to different court
Bob Barr FTW!
Chase Tower after Ike
A question about Ike
Interview with Virginia McDavid
Today's Ike updates
Farmers Branch restrained again
Virginia anti-spam law struck down
CD07: Poll shows tighter race
Ice
The SNL Palin/Clinton sketch
Candidate Q&A: Martin Siegel
Galveston
What about the hippie bohemian attorneys?
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 15
POD confusion
Interview with Laura Ewing
Monday Ike roundup
Remembering Brennan's
Get cracking on those new greenbacks!
Volunteer opportunities
Weekend link dump for September 14
A report from Houston
A report from Galveston
The recovery
Raising the driving age
Powerless
Reliant Stadium damaged, Texans game off
Starting to assess the damage
Ike's arrival
Border fence: Now over budget, too!
The last men on the island
Fearing the worst for Galveston
The DA that did the judge
Endorsement watch: DMN for Sam Houston
Assessing the Dems' chances in the Lege
The dinosaur mummy
Texans game postponed till Monday
Ike equals Rita, or Alicia?
Ike is coming
Candidate Q&A: Steven Kirkland
Huffman's poll
Timing is everything
Paul 2008, Nader 2000?
Can you print that in large, friendly letters for me?
Interview with Joel Redmond
All John Sharp, all the time
The argument against lowering the drinking age
One less SOB
Not reassuring at all
Candidate Q&A: Andres Pereira
Once more to the courthouse for Farmers Branch
RIP, Don Haskins
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 8
Court rules against Bell
The County Board of Ethics, for what it's worth
Interview with Debra Kerner
Hurricane fatigue
Thirteen million voters
TAB trial set
Weekend link dump for September 7
Ike
The trouble with the TRCC
Don't you know who I am?
New food in the 'hood
Online disclosure
Hakeem the Dream
Brazoria Dems
Eversole looking over his shoulder
Mooseburger, medium rare
TexBlog PAC endorses Joe Moody
More on Bell's lawsuit
TPJ files complaint against Dewhurst
REV Houston
Discounted tickets for Kos event
Abramoff sentenced
Bell files suit to remove Simmons from ballot
Interview with David Mincberg
The Palin effect
More recycling on the way
The coming regional transit authority
House news
Candidate Q&A: Mike Miller
Trash the TRCC
Only Republican judges think checks aren't cash
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 1
RIP, Don LaFontaine
Shame on you, Richard Justice
Goodbye, Gustav
Interview with Michael Skelly
Vetting
Email secrecy, Alaska style
He finally cleared that last bit of brush
Choices
Gustav arrives
When Jack attacks
Could we just write one big story and be done with it?
The "John Sharp Newspaper Speculation Mentioning Act of 2003"
Lineup set for SD17
Some hope for New Orleans
Vote again for LJD
Final judgment against Farmers Branch
Good news and bad news for bike riders
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Weekend link dump for August 30
Too close for comfort
What we've got here is failure to communicate
From the "Some people just shouldn't get married" files
More thoughts on Palin
Palin?
Go away, Gustav
Interview with Cris Feldman
Why solve a problem when you can define it away?
In the box provided, he listed "Wealth"
There's a reason some people can't make up their minds
Zipcars
Candidate Q&A: Judge Jim Jordan
Let's go to the videotape
No write-in opponent for Sheila Jackson Lee
"But the pension fund was just sitting there!"
VP KBH?
Candidates speak on mental health and criminal justice issues
Gustav
Interview with Diane Trautman
Speaker's statute tossed
The homework blues
Not one and done
Kim's last dance
Here comes Hillary
Another favorable poll for Bell in SD17
Pistol-packing DAs
Candidate Q&A: Al Bennett
Will the checks clear DeLay?
City Council spending
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 25
From the "Heads I win, tails you lose" department
Did you remember to hang up and drive in West U?
Interview with Brad Bradford
The greening of Houston
Another loss in court for DeLay's cronies
Texas colleges and the drinking age
Conventional coverage
The city of Houston versus the strip clubs
Corndog
An end to recorded sales calls?
Weekend link dump for August 23
It's Biden
Tres Hombres talk up Houston
The definite possibility of a firm maybe
Tort reform for me, but not for thee
Scarbrough lawsuit against Metro dismissed
Houses houses everywhere
There's spending, and then there's spending
Self-deportation not a hit
Regent Square, coming soon (maybe)
Will the county kick in for Dynamo Stadium?
Corte and Patrick start the session early
Candidate Q&A: Shawna Reagin
Don't get too attached to that house
Not-UH-Downtown
The bottled water blues
And the VP nominee will be...
More on the Astrodome movie studio
Interview with Loren Jackson
A peek at neighborhoods of the future
Where the line gets drawn
Bringing entertainment to Sugar Land
Bye-bye, TRCC
Brimer denied again
Would we call him "Mr. Governor Mayor"?
From the "How fleeting is fame?" department
Good news coming for Metro?
Candidate Q&A: Dion Ramos
ACORN in the field
Still searching for Bigfoot
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 18
Big John welcomes Bad Karl
The tunnels and the ADA
Interview with Chris Bell
Favorable poll for Juan Garcia
Discovery Green update
Peanut allergies and blanket bans
Bridgin' it
Forensic Science commission recommends examination of capital arson case
"Hiding in the bushes" might have been a sign this was not a good thing to do
Has anyone seen my cloak of invisibility?
Weekend link dump for August 16
Brimer takes it to the Supremes
Cornyn takes a stand
No she won't! Yes he will!
The chef was a spy
From the "National laboratory for bad government" department
Vote for LJD
Let he who is without sin fling the first mud
No women's Final Four for Houston
The candidates on immigration issues
And the Democratic nominee for Probate Court #1 is...
Wanna buy the Comets?
Strange new poll
One and done?
Appraisal lawsuits
How much longer for the Alabama Bookstop?
RIP, Bill Gwatney
How the Katy Freeway toll lanes will work
Moratorium on power cutoffs urged
PETA and the fence
Kids today
Green landscaping
Matula calls on Davis to return Rove money
The Libertarian effect on the House
The Astros and Barry
Big Bland John
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 11
Be the first kid on your block to know who Obama's VP is
Send a text to 9-1-1
Here comes Karl
Interview with Vince Ryan
Winning the iconography battle
Abetting walking
RIP, Jim Warren
The local excitement
Car pooling
Lie your way to better health
Weekend link dump for August 9
Comets for sale
HISD settles with comptroller
The great sex toy disappearance
That pillow's gonna cost ya
Will there be a conservative backlash for seeking the HGLBTPC endorsement?
Why I want more recycling in Houston
Kenedy wind farm lawsuit tossed
Who will buy the Heights Theater?
Cheerleaders in an elevator
Jaworski TV
Brett who?
Harris County keeps on growing
HGLBT Political Caucus makes its endorsements
The Fort Bend-Medical Center shuttle
From the "How to tell you spend too much time thinking about politics" files
The Main Street Sears
Noriega's immigration plan
Texans, Rodeo back off Dome hotel opposition
Edouard's effects
Murray on Bell
More on Ames Jones and KBH
The legacy of Henry Wade
Edouard: More drizzle than sizzle
The Libertarians and the Speaker
Nothing to do but wait
Mayor White talks recycling
The Twitterati
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 4
Don't need to be a weatherman
Get ready for Edoaurd
Parks and Wildlife versus the border fence
The queue behind KBH
Still not safe for sex toys
H-GAC explains it all to you
Tropical depression
School days
New jail bond to miss the November election
McCain's plateau in Texas
Bike rage
Weekend link dump for August 2
Use it or lose it time for curbside recycling
White Linen Night tonight
Newspapers win against Perry in court
UT-Brownsville wins concessions on border fence
A little love for Skelly
Who wants the HGLBT Political Caucus' endorsement?
Don't text and skate
Robertson renovation
Where in the world is Rick Perry?
Pete's strip club buddies
Landfill power
How many eligible voters are there?
It sucks to be a school district
Pai pays up
Bye-bye, trees
It's not stripping, it's burlesque
Houston gets dinged for non-recycling
Interview with Diana Maldonado
Hillary Clinton to campaign for Obama
The judges and the HGLBT Political Caucus
Potty problems
More on McCaul, and more
Judge rules Texas' bilingual education is inadequate
Metro East End meeting
School board campaign finance reports
Registering voters
Waiting for KBH, the continuing story
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 28
Bell, Skelly, and McCaul
No Ashby highrise ordinance coming
Charitable political contributions
Green College Station
The Steffy Plan
"Turd Blossom" coming to town
More on Obama and the downballot races
A look ahead to the Council of the future
An alternate suggestion for Kirby
Run, don't walk
Weekend link dump for July 26
Obama still doing well among Latino voters
Bob's your uncle
Nights in white linen
Deputies to back Garcia
Metro makes change to east end of Universities line
John Edwards in town
More motorcycles
The next Mayor of San Antonio
"Money should NEVER stand in the way of health care"
More flagships
Obama's Latino outreach
Metro gets another approval from the feds
The new Examiner
The costs and effects of mass imprisonment
Brimer will appeal
Culberson: Let me revise and extend those remarks
The Harris County money race
One more race on the ballot
Where's your report, Chuck?
Homes for the homeless
Kos comes to Houston
Judge rules for Davis in ballot access case
A billion short
State of Play
Density and transit go hand in hand
Steffy runs against the wind
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 21
The jails and the mentally ill
Incentivizing recycling
Bell's launch
The bypass blues
Check your citizenship
A few random thoughts on my trip to Netroots Nation
Weekend link dump for July 19
Commissioners Court to try, try again
You there! Go play outside!
From the "Things are tough all over" department
Bell's campaign kickoff
And the special mystery guest is...
Netroots Nation, day 3
Obama's haul in June
NBA India
Culberson v. NASA
The other conventions
Netroots Nation, day 2
Bloomberg on Houston
Midafternoon update, and more me in the media
Media coverage of Netroots Nation
I have arrived at Netroots Nation
Still more recycling
Texas Freedom Network blogging
Voice mail
Policing the jailers
Netroots Nation
The county money report
Skelly on TV
Still more elected offices
Why can't they advertise?
Conditional medicine
Pushing for wind energy infrastructure
Some fundraising numbers
More elected offices
From the "You're new around here, aren't you?" files
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 14
Bell time
Houston: Hot or not for college grads?
Time to say good-bye to the Kirby trees
"It took me sixteen hours to get to LA"
Hotze loses again
The tax that dare not speak its name
TIERS for Medicaid
The Chron on Bradford
DPS director to retire
Pee in a cup, go to jail
Texans Against Hunger
RIP, Bobby Murcer
Weekend link dump for July 12
RIP, Michael DeBakey
Steffy on the Pickens Plan
Mayor White challenges the EPA
The 1960 blues
Hopefully the last thing to say about the Twitter battle
What about Pete?
Get to know the HDCC
Another step forward for Metro
Docs abandoning the GOP
Cisneros and Obama
College tuition, the continuing story
Mighty big cross you've got there
You there! Quit whining!
Capuano responds to Culberson
More recycling
More on the Twitter battle in Congress
Pickens' plan for wind and natural gas
A rail plan for Central Texas
Three Dallas race overviews
HouStoned is becoming Hair Balls
How much overtime is too much?
The Feds inspect the jails
Using less gas
Believe Texas
New Hot Bagel Shop coming
The Texas Blue interviews Diane Trautman
Use Twitter for good, not for evil
One small step for Bell
Not too fast, not too slow
Vandalism at All Saints
The Nation on the state of the state
A little less blight
Leavin' on a balloon-powered lawn chair
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 7
Getting the new commuter rail lines right
Jackson Lee wants hearings on Harris County criminal justice
Them that has the gold gets the patrols
Noriega v Cornyn on veterans' issues
RIP, Dan Cook
One last step for Ashby Highrise
Pardon our dust
The online life
Maintenance window
Holiday weekend link dump
Can you drive 55?
RIP, Jesse Helms
Now that's a prank
Boot this!
The Experiment Continues to Illuminate
Comer sues the TEA
Deputies arrest plaintiff in suit against Sheriff's office
RIP, Larry Harmon
Brimer sues to boot Davis off the ballot
And now they arrest the bosses
AMA runs ad criticizing anti-Medicare vote
"Crazy ant" pesticide now available
Observer on Yanez
A delay for you is an opportunity for someone else
It's not a dead heat if someone is leading
Why not just register as a lobbyist and be done with it?
The state of electronic voting in Texas
The sock puppet in the news
Court rules Dingus can be on the ballot
Walle, WALL-E
Virtual speed bumps
"Staff error"
Steroids in the schools
TexBlog PAC Endorses Sherrie Matula
Why arrest the bosses when you can arrest the workers?
Bob Curl to retire at Rice
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 30
Sheriff apologizes for racist emails
Beckwith's follies
Upper Kirby versus Trees for Houston
Meeting to discuss commuter rail study
BlueTexas
Sarnoff on the Heights Highrise
Turn that thing up!
Good news: We're not doomed!
The end of the quarter is upon us
Big Bad John
Weekend link dump
East End rail opening ceremony
It means "Suave and Debonair"
Another Lyceum poll
More on the Lyceum poll
Senate shenanigans
Gray on Kirby
TMA unendorses Cornyn
Deputies for Garcia
"I got a leather from my Fred"
TexBlog PAC event a big success
Reminder: Houston Votes Zydeco event
The z-word and the airports
National Night Out, the local option
Good news for Noriega
Business tax revenues falling short of projections
Interview with Eric Roberson
Final reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser tonight
More on the Heights highrise
Sexism and sports writing
Obama to do something in Texas
SCOTUS strikes down "Jessica's Law"
More from the Sheriff
Harrisburg line groundbreaking Thursday
Dan Patrick wants to raise your taxes
Supreme Court sanctions the fence
The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem
Fight for Rice, Rice fight on...
TexBlog PAC endorses Chris Turner
Still time to help Noriega in the Boxer challenge
New frontiers in multitasking
Good news comes in threes
The sheriff speaks
Once again, why is Kinky Friedman still in my newspaper?
Mayor White talks transit
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 23
Is there a Heights highrise in the works?
Culberson versus wind
Metro and the East End
The bounce
Dallas City Council says "No loonies, please"
Term limits on the ballot in San Antonio
The names may change, but the stories remain the same
Casey on the appraisal problem
A tale of two headlines: Slow/No slow
Cricket experiments with instant replay
It's not bad, it's a classic
A tale of two headlines: Veepstakes
"Grumpy Republicans" watch
Saint Arnold's location update
HISD versus HCAD
It's an amazing thing watching a meme being born
SD10 polling
Reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser
You have issues
More red light cameras in the works
New DNA tests for Darlie Routier
"Helicopter parents"
Building collapse at Rice
Tamalalia 2.0
Council passes the budget
More on the Council Metro vote
Obama and Latino voters
San Antonio airport expansion
Where will those new commuter rail lines go?
Plutoids!
Noriega and Skelly
Council approves Metro consent plan
Commissioners Court presses forward with scaled-down jail plan
Interview with State Rep. Juan Garcia
The state of the Noriega campaign
The transit network effect
A different model for delivering WiFi
Houston Votes! kickoff fundraiser
Council to vote on K-Mart settlement payments
Interview with Ernie Casbeer
Good poll news in CD10
Coming attractions on the business tax
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 16
Save the date: TexBlog PAC fundraiser
Why we evacuate
Come to Houston, if you can
Interview with Joe Moody
The immigration problem
Republican Rap Sheet
Is Facebook a reunion killer?
Claytie
Huffman in SD17
Update on Vo's apartments
MLB looking at instant replay
Demand for mass transit growing
A night at the ballpark
The definition of insanity, Harris County style
State secrets
Another year, another Secretary of State
Another strip club lawsuit
"In the White House there is no beer"
Unity watch: Republicans (not) for McCain
Council's budget wishes
Van Gundy disputes Donaghy
DeLay versus DeLay
Council delays Metro vote
Interview with Chris Turner
Today's blog news today
Meet the man who's taking on Tom Craddick
Help Max crash the parties
Was the fix in against the Rockets?
Council gets its turn with the city budget
TxDOT rethinks I-69
Interview with Robert Miklos
Commuter rail lines recommended
The state of solar power in Texas
Running prosecutors
Annie's List matching contributions to Diane Trautman
Update on Metro v. Scarborough
Rasmussen shows Cornyn with a big lead
Interview with Wendy Davis
What will Obama do in Texas?
Lottery sales down
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 9
Bell not quite ready to jump in to SD17 just yet
Those grumpy Republicans
Interview with State Rep. Dan Barrett
Unity watch: McAuliffe and Moeller
Still two-stepping
Now that's a burial
Fire at the Governor's mansion
Chertoff goes on the offensive and gets offensive
My pics from the Bloggers Caucus
What not to watch
It's unity time
All I want for election season
It's hard out there for a pickup
Washington Avenue in a nutshell
My (short) convention experience
Blogger caucus a big success
Big Time comes to town
Houston vies for the Women's Final Four
McCain's good buddy Phil
Blogger caucus tonight!
Hillary Clinton to suspend her Presidential campaign
Interview with Tom Gray of the AWEA
No Galveston jail for Harris County
Fill Rick's boots
The impending bike shortage
SD17 special election date set
Lawsuit against Kenedy wind farm on hold for now
Reminder: Blogger bash Thursday night in Austin
Obama!
Another defendant in lawsuit against Sheriff's office
Baseball and instant replay
Sheriff's surveillance unit disbanded
Sunsetting TxDOT
SBOE to review science curriculum
Commissioners Court to vote on Grand Parkway segment
Wind energy facility coming to Houston
From the "You might also consider getting a life" department
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 2
RIP, Bo Diddley
The state's airplanes
The state of wind power in Texas
No excuses for CPS
Regent Square update: Please leave Allen Parkway alone!
On welcoming converts
A warning about downtown parking
Hurricanes are coming - Is your home ready?
The fate of the Dome is in his hands
For Bell for Senate
The book was different
Council fusses at Metro over rail details
Hotel tax lawsuit goes class-action
Once again, a matter of priorities
LSG report on higher education in Texas
A change of direction at TxDOT?
The best argument ever against the intentional walk
KTRK interviews Texas DNC Rules Committee member
Supreme Court upholds FLDS ruling
RIP, Harvey Korman
Ibarras sue again
Talking tuition
New math, Russian-style
"The Sanctuary"
A little perspective, please
The Texas Observer polls the new primary voters
Sheriff still hasn't learned his lesson about deleting emails
Early overview of the HCDE Trustee races
Baselice's Texas poll
Judge strikes down Farmers Branch anti-immigrant law
We should all have such critics
Janek resigns
Settlement in vote suppression lawsuit against AG Abbott
Commercial valuation baloney
Olivia the star (gazer)
The party to attend in Austin next week
Metro to hold open house on Southeast corridor today
The Comets at Reliant
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 27
Abbott's ambition
A new front in the war on mosquitoes
Court thwacks CPS over FLDS raid
From the "Dance with them what brung you" files
Is the death penalty declining in Texas?
And in other news, water is wet
Happy Memorial Day
Quintero's lawyer speaks
Perry goes on the offensive
Figuring out Bobby Jindal
Don't talk about tuition!
And on the Seventieth Day ...
Another front in the air quality battle
DA probes Sheriff's surveillance of Ibarra brothers
Early overview of the District Clerk race
RIP, Dick Sutcliffe
The Astrodome as movie studio?
Remake that greenback!
The answer is staring you in the face
Not so minor after all
Commissioners Court gets upset over lease deals report
More "ghost worker" stuff
Mrs. Medina pleads not guilty
Red light camera watch: Hello, Austin!
Pigeon wars!
Bell for SD17?
Build green and save some green
A loophole for red light runners?
Time for the Super Bowl Shuffle again
HomeForTheDynamo.com
Austin light rail hits delays
Let's hear it for nerdmobiles!
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 19
Probe of Sheriff's office urged
Abbott's partisan efforts
The booster club advantage
Interviews with Bradford and Lykos
Score one for preservation
More TIERS coming
Things Younger Than McCain
Macias gives it up
Burnam to Craddick: What about Keel?
Update on the new Whole Foods
"The Electric Company" to ride again
"When Obama Wins"
The cost of the FLDS case
The pill for pigs
Border coalition sues Homeland Security over the fence
Bringing the city to the suburbs
Diet Coke and Mentos: The sequel
Way to be on top of it, Ed
Business tax turmoil
Astrodome lease in the works
Name one, John!
Lose that highway
The Rosenthal investigation
The top ten science hoaxes
California Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage
"Crazy ants"
Mincberg calls out Emmett's ethics task force
New Whole Foods coming
Robinson versus Peveto, the continuing story
A brief history of the Pig Stand
Big Sheriff is watching you
The city budget for 2009
Plug pulled on Philly wi-fi
Slow down, you move too fast
Perry says again that he's running again
Mount Rush Hour revisited
Times are tough if you work for tips
Obama's voter registration drive in Texas
What's the matter with Dallas suburbs?
Twitter
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 12
The rarest play in baseball
More financial gloom from the school districts
Art Car Museum curator killed in crash
Early overview of the County Attorney race
Restaurants and the rising price of food
Bad franchise!
"You walk wrong"
Gas prices and sports fans
The "virtual fence" gains fans
Where the people will be
Bike to work
Let's get serious about innocence
Another Republican for SD17
ICE versus employers
The feathered look
Kelly Siegler resigns
The Chron on jail overcrowding
Another good poll for Noriega
Update on the East End rail routes
Once again with the penny
A roundup of voter ID editorials
See ya, Vito
We're all newbies next to Christine
The Galveston option
TSU-Dynamo update
Early overview of the Tax Assessor race
The Speaker wars have begun
Rosenthal's effect on the DA race
Hispanic candidates in Farmers Branch and Irving
High oil prices are good for Texas
The DA's information office
Please support Diana Maldonado and TexBlog PAC
Strip clubs ask again for a halt to the new fee
The real fix for the jail overcrowding blues
Put that BlackBerry down!
Gotta watch those nuns
Abbott makes hash of needle-exchange program
The jail overcrowding blues, part whatever
RIP, Mildred Loving
New flash: Trial lawyers weren't the problem
News flash: Professors are people, too
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 5
Some good poll news from Rasmussen
News flash: Suburbs have traffic, too
Next up for Lloyd Kelley
The next frontier for innocence
Geothermal and solar
That other border
Form and zoning
Higher gas prices, more transit riders
Score one for the Visitors Bureau
The highbrow Hooters
"Free-range kids"
Mincberg goes after Emmett on ethics
Shocked? No, not really
Our weak laws and our bad air
Mrs. Medina released on bail
Patriots' Spygate moves closer to resolution
More on the HCDE and Wolfe
"Kuff and the Buttheads"
We've got bad air, yes we do!
School districts predict financial disaster in their futures
The Texas Justice Newsladder
Good times in Ireland are bad times for the pubs
HCDE trustees demand Wolfe's resignation
Still more me on your TV
Early overview of the Sheriff race
Give it away now
Cibrian in '09?
The DMN blogs city hall
Medina grand jury reconvenes, indicts wife
Kelley to get $1.4 million
Metro changes contractors
The appeals courts
If you don't have the cash, don't get the disease
Build green
The small county effect in the RRC runoff
Where the voter ID battle goes from here
As the Rocket turns
A message from Diana Maldonado to TexBlog PAC
Rev. Lawson responds to the Chron
Ree-C has her say
Can anyone stop the TTC?
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 28
Supreme Court upholds Indiana voter ID law
HGLBT's Jenifer Pool achieves a milestone
The rise of Hispanic voting power
Early overview of the County Judge race
Skelly, Doherty among leaders in cash-on-hand ratio
Workers Memorial Day
Single-serving sites
You may say it's not about tort reform, but it is
Prairie View voting problems, the continuing story
Baseball for Sugar Land?
The middle name game
Recycle or lose it
TSU talks to Dynamo about sharing the stadium
Austin to try again for light rail
Kirby Drive pain to be prolonged
New digs for the Profs
TexBlog PAC endorses Diana Maldonado
Thoughts on "Houston Have Your Say"
Macias' date in court
"Vote by mail, go to jail"
Harrisburg rail resolution progressing
When all else fails, create a task force
At the TV studio
So much for the "virtual fence"
No creationism degree
Attitudes on immigration worsen
The Lege and immigration
Tommy John surgery
Get ready to get Lost again
You'd think quiet in school would be a good thing
Ibarras must settle for their settlement
Still looking for a few volunteers
More me on your TV
BOR turns five
Twelve-month re-ups the hard way
Strip clubs speak about the fee
When reality needs a little help
SafeClear wins in court
More on Metro costs revisited
The polygamist PR campaign
Waiting for KBH: The next generation
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 21
Green Market: The first week!!!
A Noriega update
A cozy little family in juvenile court
The state prison guard shortage
The New Joys of Jell-O
Technology Growth: Are We Preparing Today's Students?
Maybe the z-word isn't so dirty after all
More K-Mart suits dismissed
More on the Ibarras' request to withdraw settlement agreement
Your moment of Zen for the weekend
Strip clubs must still pay fees
That's a lot of carbon
Interview with the Mythbusters
More on the Perry 2010 plan
RIP, Danny Federici
Friday random ten: Live in concert
Ibarra brothers want to go back to court
Making Montrose walkable
Council approves billboard deal
Ashby highrise lawsuit coming?
The thirty-nine percent solution
Two down, one to go for K-Mart settlement
Early overview of the DA race
More on the MLS-Mayor kerfuffle
West U makes school zone cellphone ban official
Border fence lawsuit update
Top 100 novelty songs
MLS versus the Mayor
Lake Radack
An early overview of the county races
How bad is Fort Bend's air?
Hilton Americas up for sale
The Curse of Big Papi?
800K for Skelly
At long last, he unites us
Springsteen!
The race to replace Janek
How big a house do you need?
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 14
Settlement reached in K-Mart Roundup lawsuits
Miles indicted
Thumbs up on Day One for Discovery Green
Kelly Fero: the man, the myth
Another lawsuit against Farmers Branch
Breaching the fence
Discovery Green Q&A
Mount Rush Hour
How not to register a complaint
The Libertarian lineup
For a public defender's office
Watch those construction costs
Interview with Michael Skelly
Meet the new Solicitor General
San Antonio to jump on board the school zone cellphone ban bandwagon
The nurse's union
Hubert Vo
Big media me
Metro costs revisited
Interview with Craig Watkins
West U stands firm against AT&T
Active hurricane season predicted: Film at 11
Countdown: Urban parks and organic produce
New billboard ordinance delayed
Bradford identifies the issues
Grade separation for Harrisburg in the works
Public defender's office gets OK to be studied
Wind power to the people
More on Katy tollway congestion pricing
KTRK wins injunction in Sheriff's email deletion case
Runoff wrapup
If at first you don't privatize, try try again
The DMN writes about the HHSC
Oh Danny Boy, you can come back now
Open results thread
Updated billboard reduction plan set for Council
Get ready for congestion pricing on I-10
Free Starbucks At 11 AM Today!
RIP, PinkDome
Last chance to vote
The two DA runoffs
Death by blogging
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 7
Hakeem in the Hall
Blockwalking With Richard Morrison
Discovery Green set to open
Overview of Railroad Commissioner runoff
Pizza dot com
Bill James speaks
Rice to hire Cal's Braun as basketball coach
The high cost of getting tuff on crime
TexBlog PAC: We did it!
Toll road cameras expand in scope
Whither carpal tunnel syndrome?
Commissioners Court to study public defenders office
Early voting totals
TexBlog PAC: One down, one to go
Whitmire: Abolish the TYC
Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup April 26
AT&T responds to the West U cellphone ordinance
Friday random ten: Genealogy time
City wins another round in revenue caps lawsuit
Last day of early runoff voting today
AT&T pushes back on West U school-zone cellphone ban
Judy Norsigian in town
TexBlog PAC
If the law is in your way, ignore it
County disputes Kelly's fee demand
Runoff early voting so far
Has anyone registered the "sucks" variant yet?
"It's the end of the world." "Again!?!"
A Republican runoff to watch
A Catastrophic beginning
The jail chronicles
Reliant regional finals get kudos
Fifty for TexBlog PAC
Skelly in Politico
Macias to sue over HD73 primary result
The case against the penny
Furse is in for SD17
Identity theft alleged in HD144 runoff
The delegate count
Caller editorializes for Kenedy wind farm
Rusty Yates has a new son
RIP, Dith Pran
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 31
Rep. Cohen responds to court ruling on HB1751
Higher cost projections for new light rail lines
Early voting for runoffs begins today
A new Republican name to replace Janek
The Census and the Congress
New frontiers in outsourcing
The Senate conventions
KTRK on Skelly versus Culberson
Endorsement watch: The Chron and the AusChron
The sellout that wasn't
Pasty time
Judge fines Rosenthal for contempt
The new DA's new direction?
Friday random ten: Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
Lastest Ashby plans nixed
Freight rail versus light rail
Is that all there is?
"Am not!" "Are too!"
Macias still loses after HD73 recount
Density and walkability on Montrose and Studemont
Council OKs contract with HOPE
More cameras, fewer tickets
Vote early in the runoff
"Privatization failure is taxpayers' burden"
Lottery privatization still lurking out there
A new leader for the Hall of Fame
Vote early, and vote often
More on a public defender's office for Harris County
Harris County juvenile facilities criticized
NCAA regionals: Did we mention there are still tickets available?
West U cellphone ban ordinance passed
Noriega wins Progressive Patriots poll
On the road to victory with Rick Noriega
WiFi bubbles
Senate convention information
Recount in HD73
The Observer on the RRC runoff
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 24
The Sweet Sixteen comes to town
Last chance to vote for Noriega in the Progressive Patriots poll
Primary turnout by State Rep district
A pause for the vehicle voucher program
The cancer research panel
Adickes sells his studio
Do not mail?
The next peeing Calvin
Noriega to deliver Democratic radio address
Some border wall lawsuits dropped
Now that's a high-rise
Our broken math curriculum
HOPE ratifies its contract with the city
Magidson makes his mark
Jonestown and the NCAA tournament
More on the Supreme Slacker Court
Archstone Memorial Heights gets ready for the wrecker
GOP files complaint against Rep. Vo over fundraiser
Let's review those deals
What's another hundred grand?
Injunction sought to stop wind farm construction
Craddick's lawyer changes story regarding PAC donations
Get better, OJ!
El Paso puts up a roadblock to the border fence
A long way up, a short way down
Kelly to county: Payment time
You have the right to an attorney, just not right now
A look at the GOP County Judge race
Minimum lot size ordinance upheld
Another SOB setback
Ashby developers to move forward as originally planned
Endorsement watch: Reed backs Montford
Meet Michael Skelly tonight
More on the West U cellphone ban proposal
Hey, didn't you used to be Tom DeLay?
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 17
Houston, the next great world city
Help the Progressive Patriots PAC spend its money wisely
The Bible class conundrum
Canvass report: Results by State Rep district
Endorsement watch: Tejano Dems and the HGLBT Caucus for the runoffs
Goin' to California
An Abramoff update
Sen. Ellis calls for a public defender's office
Death of the Internet predicted: Film at 11
The new fiver
The new DA speaks
Lykos v. Siegler
Rice fires Willis Wilson
Phone hate
Friday random ten: Pearland attacks
Canvass report - Voting downballot
New penny coming?
Why you shouldn't spank your kids
Endorsement watch: Cobb goes with Lehmberg
Time to start reviewing the canvass data
More on the new interim DA
Craddick's fishing trip
Abbott-instigated voter fraud cases dismissed
Another look at the new Costco
Rosenthal's replacement coming
A look at the Democratic runoffs
Will West U follow Highland Park?
Border wall lawsuit ruling
Bill James speaks
Eliot and Chuck
More jail deaths
Baselice disputes Masset's crossover theory
Republican aide quits over impersonating Democratic lawmaker
Spitzer
Olivo and Craddick
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 10
Memorial Heights update
The not-so-hot button
TIERS and problems go hand in hand
A taste of Republican pessimism
Welcome, new voters! You're gonna get mail!
"The next slums"
Oh Danny Boy, please go away
The Richmond Rail effect in the County Judge primary
Forward, spring!
Screwing up email the White House way
The Presidential heads in Pearland
Deleting them doesn't make them disappear
Feds investigating Harris County jails
The last word about Republican voters in the Democratic primary
HISD becomes a rich district
Friday random ten: Post-primocalyptic edition
Runoff time
There may have been some of them, but there was lots more of us
Vorpies!
Once again with Republicans in the Democratic primary
LULAC may sue TDP
So long, Professors
Do you deserve this stadium?
The bluing of Harris County
HOPE and Houston come to an agreement
Checking my predictions
Republican primary results
Democratic primary results
Early results: Good, bad, and weird
Convention Time
More on the Sheriff lawsuit settlement
Your Super Texas Tuesday last chance to vote
Super Texas Tuesday is here at last
Still on track for a record-breaking primary
Polling the stuff that really matters
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 3
So long, Sheryl
Watch parties everywhere
Settlement in lawsuit against Sheriff's office
Time for predictions
Dem turnout from a GOP perspective
More on Archstone Memorial Heights
Endorsement watch: The DMN repeats itself
The "doomsday seed vault"
Endorsement watch: Better to be right slow than wrong fast
Zogby polls Harris County
"Taking Obama to the Heights"
Parker on the soccer stadium
Endorsement watch: Still not quite done
Turnout watch: Early voting ends
An interview with Rep. Hubert Vo
More Michael Wolfe
Donnie Baseball's tribulations
Endorsement watch: Obama and Grant
Polls here, polls there
"Garfield Minus Garfield"
Turnout watch: Republicans say "Hey! Remember us?!?"
Last day of early voting
Lawsuit filed to overturn tort reform amendment
Turnout watch: The SOS speaks
Once more with the Ashby Highrise
Endorsement watch: We endorse ourselves!
AG to approve HISD bond money
Campaign overview: CD10
The Beer Can Reopener
The death of radio, part 572
Turnout watch: Two numbers to ponder
Feds get on board with Metro
Rosenthal testifies in Sheriff's lawsuit
Judge bars enforcent of Speaker's law during suit
Endorsement watch: Standing up for Borris
Revisiting Republicans in the Dem primary
Yard sign primary update: The presidentials
Today's turnout examination
CTC to city: Move that stadium
Yow!
News coverage of the West 11th Street Park dedication
Endorsement watch: That's all they wrote
Lubbock ceases red light camera operations
Truitt to drop out in CD07
Texas Independence Day party
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 25
Candidate overview: Supreme Court primaries
Goonies!
Early voting: Guessing the downballot effects
From the "Nice Work If You Can Get It" department
The soccer stadium and the downtown grid
Endorsement watch: Scattershooting
Craddick's fate
You can't put a fence through a golf course!
Because "Homogoodfriendsuals" is too hard to pronounce?
So what does all this turnout mean?
Endorsement watch: Still silence from the Chron
The West 11th Street Park grand re-opening ceremony
HD119 special election set for May
Endorsement watch: Stuff from Austin
Where are the Republicans?
Who should investigate Chuck?
Doctor Murray, I presume
Plaintiffs score early points in civil suit against Sheriff's office
Friday random ten: Debate this!
Noriega's first TV ad
Shelley staffers cleared of sabotage charges
Candidate Q&A: Larry Weiman
Vote early when you vote early
Early voting and the fate of a Craddick D
Early voting Day Two
V.O.T.E.R. candidate forum this Saturday
Dynamo Stadium land deal vote tagged
Clinton rally was mediocre
Defense attorneys want new DA named
Lawsuit against Sheriff's office begins
Fundraising for Memorial Park
About those new episodes...
Dome deal lives on
Addressing the rail question for the soccer stadium
Bill Clinton in Houston tonight
Early voting totals way high already
An incomplete list of candidates whom I support
Skelly off to the races
The West 11th Street Park grand re-opening
Support resolutions to reform youth and adult corrections
Disclose!
Let there be ads!
City moves to buy land for Dynamo Stadium
Rosenthal's deal with the AG
The Answer
Candidate Q&A: Ruben Guerrero
Candidate Q&A: Jim Leitner
Endorsement watch: Repeating ourselves
When planners and anti-planners collide
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 18
Endorsement watch: One for Criss
Endorsement watch: The outlier
Candidate interview: Dexter Handy
Endorsement watch: Some catching up
It's not about the fares, it's about the service
Upper Kirby update
Endorsement watch: Presidentials
Endorsement watch: Noriega time
Lawsuit filed over city's clean air ordinance
The Beer Can House reopens
Consultant says Dome hotel ought to work
More on Rosenthal's resignation
Meet Antonio Villaraigosa
K-Mart lawsuits: Still proceeding
At least one expert speaks about the grand jury lawsuit
Can we all just get along?
Rosenthal resigns
Endorsement watch: DMN endorses Noriega
Kubosh packs it in
Candidate interview: State Rep. Dora Olivo
More Speaker's race maneuvers
Now the world really is safe for sex toys
So did Pettite sink Clemens?
More on the recusal motion for Judge Hoyt
Ashby highrise ordinance delayed again
Candidate Q&A: Harold Landreneau
Endorsement watch: Tick tock, tick tock...
Save the 4400!
Could be worse - could (still) be Austin
Medina grand jurors sue to make information public
Suit against Sheriff delayed
Will Pettite nail Clemens?
Candidate interview: Larry Joe Doherty
Don't let them know what we think!
Evaluating the County Judge candidates on rail
Wednesday campaign notes
If you want an expert opinion, ask an expert
Red light camera rumors
Candidate Q&A: Judge Linda Yanez
The yard sign primary
Define "prompt"
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 11
TPJ files criminal complaint against Tom Craddick
Back to court, Chuck
Candidate interview: Rick Noriega
Audrey!
Come on and take a free ride
Coleman's conviction upheld
Democratic County Judge primary overview
Endorsement watch: GOP DA
Et tu, Debbie?
Citywide WiFi a no go for now
Suits and countersuits over the border fence
Endorsement watch: Harris County Judge
Our experts can beat up your experts
Giant Presidential heads head off to Pearland
Refighting Richmond rail in the County Judge race
Endorsement watch: Supreme Court
Friday random ten: Super Friday!
Endorsement watch: HGLBTPC and HCD
This is our country, but it's not your song
Another Farmers Branch lawsuit
The southern storms and how to help
Obama will debate Hillary...somewhere
CSI: MLB
Another win for HISD in bond lawsuits
Candidate Q&A: Bruce Mosier
TxDOT: A billion here, a billion there...
Some news about Washington Avenue
Will Brimer challenge Davis' ballot eligibility?
Teachers for Noriega
Hillary versus Obama in Houston?
Strip club fee lawsuit update
Candidate interview: Dan Grant
A short roundup of legislative primary posts
How much was that freeway supposed to cost?
Endorsement watch: The DMN on the Supreme Court
The latest highrise rumors
Endorsement watch: Justice of the Peace
Bacarisse on Metro
Catastrophic Theater launch party
Will Clemens take the fifth?
Candidate Q&A: Kyle Carter
More on Siegler's call for Rosenthal to resign
Another Super Tuesday watch party
More on Borris Miles
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 4
Siegler to Rosenthal: Please quit
Paul Moreno
TXDoT gives Texans a say in new license plate design
Nobody likes the Ashby Highrise ordinance
Commissioners criticize Emmett over Dome hotel plan
Candidate interview: David Mincberg
Last day to register is today
Super Tuesday watch party
The Irish bag tax
Post-Super Bowl blogging
Endorsement watch: Constables
Chron overview of GOP County Judge candidates
Construction begins - for real! - at the Ed Sacks site
One degree makes a big difference
The Sheriff's emails
Rosenthal's recess
Registration deadline Monday
New home for the Newswatch blog
Term limits in San Antonio
Judge calls a halt to the Rosenthal hearings
Friday random ten: Actual randomness!
Don't delete those emails!
Noriega talks border issues at FDL
A change of direction for the border wall?
One small piece of good news on voter ID
Medina's messy finances
Puente to step down
Is today the day Chuck testifies about the deleted emails?
Bidding for another Super Bowl
Candidate Q&A: Steve Kirkland
Got something to say to me?
Alvarado scores endorsements
Pettite and Clemens
Farmers Branch asks judge to okay new ordinance
Noriega's South Texas tour
More Final Fours!
Dome lease negotiated
Edwards drops out
Candidate interview: Adrian Garcia
A closer look at SD17
WNBA reaches labor deal with the players
At last! "Lost"!
Janek to leave Senate in June
Two for CD10
Bob McNair talks about the Astrodome
First round to the government in border access lawsuits
Candidate Q&A: Fred Cook
The Supreme slacker Court
Are you ready for some Super Bowl ads?
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 28
Last word on Louie Welch
State Sen. Kyle Janek to resign
Republicans in Democratic primaries
More on former Mayor Welch
Candidate interview: State Rep. Jessica Farrar
Notes from the voter ID hearing on Friday
Grits talks criminal justice with Texas Monthly
Noriega in South Texas
RIP, Louie Welch
Regulations and growth
Trees on Kirby may be doomed after all
Red light camera watch: Hello, Amarillo!
San Marcos balks at municipal WiFi
The state of the city 2008
LaRhonda Torry reinstated to primary ballot
Los candidatos latinos
Hooray for the No Call List!
The GOP's woes, or lack thereof
Friday random ten: Same name, different song
Countywide smoking ban proposed
Dukes and Craddick
And speaking of planning...
Paper, no plastic
At long last, the Governor's emails
Ethics complaints filed against Medina and Hecht
Medina grand jurors want to keep the ball rolling
No extension for Astrodome Redevelopment
Candidate Q&A: Sam Houston
Did you save the receipt?
Farmers Branch does it again
"Thanks, Tom"
Texas Monthly and me
Court hearing on Wendy Davis' ballot eligibility
Oh, those performance enhancers
Ask about the Dome hotel, and ye shall receive an update
Time for another S-CHIP veto override effort
Candidate interview: Ron Reynolds
Is this town big enough for all those convention center hotels?
The circus is coming to town
The planning and anti-planning debate continues
Medina grand jury disbanded, judge criticizes DA
Another Supreme Court judge facing campaign finance questions
Tough times in the DA's office
Candidate Q&A: Andres Pereira
The soccer stadium and the rail line
Pictures from a demolition
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 21
The lawyer versus the jurors
Candidate interview: Carol Alvarado
Replacing Ronnie Earle
Feds blindside Eagle Pass, file other suits
Who would build residences there?
Two more views of Rosenthal
Gas lines and the Railroad Commission
Hike and bike, train and detain
Now the real story can be told
Complaining about the grand jury
More on planning and "anti-planning"
Another step towards the cliff for Farmers Branch
Are you ready for another implosion?
And the Sheriff's office gets in the email deletion act
Friday random ten: Three times a cover
Now that's what I call a quick weight-loss plan!
More on Medina and Rosenthal
Mandamus update
Feds widening local investigation
Feds sue Eagle Pass over land access for border fence
David Medina indicted by grand jury for arson
GOP DA candidates say "We're not Chuck!"
Another City Council candidate conundrum
Candidate interview: Armando Walle
How to honor Andy Olmsted
The other mandamus
Is it 2009 already?
Mincberg raises money
Memorial service for Joan Ehrlich
Roger and Miguel
Candidate interview: State Rep. Garnet Coleman
When the Eighties attack, and other stories
No ballot challenge over Chuck's withdrawal
Kirby Drive high rise update
TPA endorsements for Democratic primaries
Rosenthal's judgment
Chat with Metro
Candidate Q&A: Baltasar D. Cruz
That's really dark
Fifty-dollar scratch-off redux
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 14
The land for Dynamo Stadium
County sues builders over "bandit" signs
Candidate interview: Joe Jaworski
The homestretch for the Katy Freeway expansion
Where the DeLay case stands now
No thank you for not smoking
Pity the poor developers
Hutchison and the border fence
IRS complaint filed against Perry-backing foundation
Henley and CD07
DA investigating incident involving Borris Miles
The sheriff's new home
Red light cameras come to Round Rock
Duncanville sues the swingers
He's baaaaaaaaack...
Where the potties are
Friday random ten: Cover-two
An update on Metro and the FTA
More on AG Abbott's entry into the Rosenthal saga
Burka on the House races
More on Dynamo Stadium
The Governor's inbox
AG Abbott comes calling
The fallout from Rosenthal
Candidate Q&A: Susan Criss
A new spin on the "Hillary will save us/kill us!" meme
Dynamo Stadium appears imminent
Fletcher's poll against Van Arsdale
Emmett calls for investigation of Rosenthal
Judge Emmett speaks
The case that started it all
Oh, those emails: Day 2
Candidate interview: Diane Trautman
Goooooooooooose!
Beware the builders
Why Ewing and not Garcia
Oh, those emails
Still purging
Earle endorses Lehmberg to replace him
Houston City Council Committee Assignments
Candidate Q&A: Jim Wrotenbery
What happened to all those cases?
Background checks for school board members?
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 7
Arabia Shrine Center sale finalized
Online campaign filings for county officials
One year after for Orlando
"Let's not make a deal", Rosenthal style
Six beers over Texas
Barbs and bouquets, but mostly barbs
RIP, Andy Olmsted
Austin wants to eliminate waste
SCOTUS to review "Jessica's Law"
Is it about to get worse for Chuck?
What if the BCS ran the NFL?
The accidentally-resigned Council member?
"Plus these babies are high in fiber, and what's the fun of becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?"
And in the end, Chuck flops out
Friday random ten: Cover me
Possibly complete list of candidate filings
What now, Chuck?
Looking Forward to 2008: Doug Wieskopf
Motion to overturn bond validation lawsuit
New Presidential dollar coins coming
Is Rosenthal about to flipflop?
Kelly Siegler jumps into DA race
Looking Forward to 2008: Gus Allen
Initial accounting of who's running
What happened with Chuck?
Now how about a Mitchell Report for every other sport?
Bikes on the trains
The top ten criminal justice stories from 2007
Filing news: So what happened?
Rosenthal withdraws
Filing news: As the deadline approaches
Inauguration Recap
Looking Forward to 2008: Jay Crossley
Filing news: Deadline day
Are Yanez's petition signature problems unfixable?
Clemens and the coaches
Your Voter ID card is in the mail
Chron story on Garcia's announcement
Rosenthal versus the Republicans
How I spent (most of) my iTunes money
Texas Progressive Alliance end-of-year roundup
The big tech stories of 2007
Looking Forward to 2008: Martha Griffin
Filing news: Adrian Garcia for Sheriff
The defiant Chuck R
Chron wants something done about billboards
Looking Forward to 2008: Paula Harris
Two for terminating term limits
Filing news: Rhettmania!
Harris County GOP ponders its Rosenthal options
RIP, Ric Williamson
Looking Forward to 2008: Maria Gonzalez
Sports Authority chair ousted
Halftime blogging
Rosenthal's apology in the news
Looking Forward to 2008: Stephanie Stradley
Never tell a geek it can't be done more efficiently
Filing news: Richard Morrison for Fort Bend County Commissioner
"Why Houston?"
Chuck's curious statement
Billboard battle delayed again
Looking Forward to 2008: Matt Stiles
Help me spend some money at the iTunes store
Filing news: Lots of action
Which races are they playing in?
Why, Chuck, you sly devil
Looking Forward to 2008: Rep. Ellen Cohen
"A truckload of flaming death"
Filing news: The other side of the aisle
Let's debate that
Looking Forward to 2008: Noel Freeman
RIP, Greenway Theatre
Filing news: Gene, Gene, the Do-Nothing Machine
Have a holly, jolly Christmas
Mitt Romney Got A Lump Of Coal In His Stocking
As always, Merry Christmas, Mel Torme
Looking forward to 2008: Stace Medellin
Not silent enough night
Looking forward to 2008: Matt Glazer
"Toxic Mike Jackson"
The RPT versus Texas Monthly
Filing news: Jaworski, Jordan, and Tison
Looking forward to 2008: Ed Davis
Filing news: A small flurry of activity
Noriega makes ActBlue's Blue Majority page
One Man In Clear Lake Is Overseeing The Texas Ethics Commission
Looking Forward to 2008: David Baldwin
V.O.T.E.R. meeting next week
Burka and Kennedy on Barrett's win
Filing news: Alvarado, Criss, Thompson
I'm excited about Charlie Wilson's War
Looking forward to 2008: Rebecca White and Meggin Baxter
Billboard ordinance gets put off till next year
Barrett Wins! Republican Leadership Rejected
Filing news: Michael Skelly in CD07
Looking forward to 2008: Christof Spieler
A House Pick-Up On Tuesday?
Gulf "Dead Zone" grows with corn prices
Filing news: Mincberg for County Judge
A Little Time With the Family
Looking Forward to 2008: Jay Aiyer
The streak
The urge to conserve
The Stupid Filter
Abbott rules for Craddick
Comets to move to Reliant Arena
Tunnel envisioning
From the "Why would you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" department
Filing news: Ronnie Earle retires
Texan of the Year for 2007
Car crash into the Hot Bagel Shop
Clemens and Bonds
Looking forward to 2008: Jeff Balke
The successful Caucus
The CPPP explains (again!) why Phil King's sales tax swap is a bad idea
Duncanville sex club lawsuit
HHSC Employee back in the blogging saddle
TPA Gold Stars: Mario Gallegos
The Mitchell Report
Keller violated court policies
Looking forward to 2008: Hale Stewart
Dawnna Dukes' Vegas vacation
Some action in the Senate
Truthiness in briefs
TPA Gold Stars: Molly Ivins
The Lege versus The Supremes
More billboard reductions coming?
Looking Forward to 2008: Jeff Caynon
Why I'll be voting for Jessica Farrar in HD148
Filing news: Who is Joel Redmond?
Border fence protest in McAllen
An HCDE smackdown
TPA Gold Stars: Denise Davis
When billionaires fight
Fewer billboards!
Looking Forward to 2008: Barbara Radnofsky
Vick gets 23 months
Wanna buy a tower?
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 10
Gold stars for the Noriegas
Looking Forward to 2008
Developing new rules
Still one election to go
"Demolition by neglect"
What's a bond validation lawsuit?
AT&T to ditch the payphone business
Metro says they'll start construction on time anyway
And in other news, Governor Perry's property tax cut claims are still phony
Jones, Adams, Sullivan, and Galloway win runoffs
Texas Progressive Alliance Silver Stars
Memo to the netroots on immigration
Runoff day is today for Council and HISD
20 years of Lights in the Heights
RIP, Otto's Bar B Que
Filing news: Sherrie Matula
Phil King wants to raise your taxes
HPD says hotel was empty when it was imploded
Feds set to sue landowners over access for border fence
Strip clubs sue over surcharge
The Hardy Toll Road extension
More on HOPE and the HEC
FTA says Metro screwed up
Setting the record straight on stem cells
"You're a mean one, Senator Grinch"
CHA files suit over Kenedy wind farms
Please present your BlackBerry to the boarding agent as your row is called
Trautman for Tax Assessor
Filing news: Contested primaries coming
Houston WiFi, the next stage
More on the FTA's demands to Metro
The filings I'm waiting for
Rene versus Ridgway for Justice of the Peace
More on the TEA and Chris Comer
Catastrophic, in a good way
Marketing atheism
BOR interviews Judge Criss
Twelve out of thirteen members of Congress recommend Rick Noriega
FTA tells Metro to resubmit paperwork for funding
A private Grand Parkway toll road?
Bowie Kuhn?
Early voting ends today for Council/HISD runoffs
Tarrant's progress
It's official: Criss versus Yanez for Supreme Court Place 8
Amber Moon in HD144
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 3
Filing news: Murphey and McDavid
Noriega kicks it off
Statement from Annette Dwyer on District E runoff
Will Phil King be this year's Kent Gruesendorf?
Statement from Michael Sullivan on District E runoff
More on HDs 52 and 46
Paper or plastic?
Questioning the commissioners' campaign spending
Death of Facebook predicted: Film at 11
Intelligent design and the TEA
Walle will file for HD140 on Monday
Dukes draws a primary opponent
Reports on the effects of the smoking ban
Endorsement watch: Runoff edition
RIP, Evel Knievel
Statement from Jolanda Jones on At Large #5 runoff
Statement from Joe Trevino on At Large #5 runoff
GOP will use paper ballots in Wharton County
Hostages taken at Clinton NH headquarters
Statement from Lawrence Allen on District D runoff
Statement from Wanda Adams on District D runoff
Help send Rick Noriega off to Austin to file for Senate
Cornyn defends his anti-CHIP votes
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling...again and again
How to do a college football playoff
Will the Pig Stand ride again?
Gmail forwarding problems
HISD Trustee runoff overview
Do we name too many storms?
The 2007 hurricane season: Hot or not?
Red light tickets jump in October
Houston. It's Worth It: The Book
Truitt to run as an independent in CD07
An invitation from RichmondRail.org
Briles goes to Baylor
Early voting starts today for city election runoffs
Washburn fires back
The Hall of Fame ballot for 2008
What's in a headline?
What about that tower's traffic?
The Dynamo will not play at the Dome
HOPE versus the city over 9-1-1 ads
Krusee to not run for re-election
Tulsa files complaint against the MOB
Do red light cameras work?
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 26
A little love from the DMN
We have met the enemy, and it is us
They charged for a CD?
A contender in CD07
Bye-bye, Trent
The anti-business tax sentiment
Lance Armstrong's political future
Michelob or michelada?
"No ducking truth behind Perry's gift"
Philly Wi-Fi network hits a snag
District D runoff overview
Why were you printing them in the first place?
More on transit options
The Lizards and Consumers Union team up again
Runoff overviews: District E, At Large 5
Time to terminate term limits
Why am I not surprised he'd be a slapper?
Bruuuuuuuuce!
What I have to be thankful for this year
Stuffing wars
"A battle of ideas"
More cheering for Dynamo Stadium
Sorry, not funny
TLCV endorses Dan Barrett
What if they're not a cash cow?
Border webcams to come online again
RIP, Dick Wilson
Cleanup can be done
Dynamo Stadium: If not now, then when?
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 19
Lampson's strategy
Dan Patrick versus the world
Noriega's primary opponent
Dan Barrett gets ParentPAC endorsement
Chron advocates saving the Dome
Richard Morrison for Fort Bend County Commissioner
Why we didn't need that jail bond
Madison coin makes its debut
Five Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped
Loren Jackson campaign kickoff
Will the Mayor sail smoothly in his last term?
The rural doctor shortage
Wanna buy an armoire?
A suggestion before construction begins
The immigration "threat"
People like transit
More baseball pandering from Rudy
What's up with Google Blog Search?
Victor Morales announces for HD04
Was someone in the Crowne Plaza when it was imploded?
Commuter to rail to Galveston
National Noriega
"Toxic" Bill Keffer
Delisi and Krusee
Still more on "The Purge"
Bell files lawsuit against Perry
Bonds indicted
Netroots Nation in Austin
The bridge protest
The parallel election
Voter ID by the numbers
Stop Sharon Keller rally this Friday
Fort Bend GOP update
The Chief Blogger debuts
Fiesta versus TxDOT
State Rep. Robby Cook will not run in '08
Highland Park bans cellphone talking while driving in school zones
Ending euthenasia
What's wrong with this picture?
More on the red light camera ruling
Email retention revisited
Watch it go boom
Where'd that red light camera money go?
RIP, Satriale's Pork Store
A perfectly cromulent neighborhood
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 12
Kubosh loses in court
Know your HHSC contractors
Trautman announces for 2008
New development on Yale
Five years ago
Facebook and Plaxo spam
Thanks for clarifying that, Tom
The Dome conundrum
Comics curmudgeoning
Anthony Bourdain understands the Internet
Chron slaps Keller again
FBGOP in limbo
He writes letters
One good reason to support the Writers in their strike
If the house is rocking, don't bother knocking
Wrapup roundup
One hurdle cleared for Astrodome Redevelopment
Prop 15 not so popular in Travis County
Why was Sue Lovell's race so close?
Why did the jail bond lose?
Fort Bend GOP leadership quits
Clark and Kerry for Noriega
DFA officially endorses Noriega
McNair speaks on Dome redevelopment
CCA to accept email filings
Instant replay for baseball?
Less local, more national
Ashby ordinance delayed
Prediction review
Uncle Dan wins!
Results wrapup
Implosion!
The economics of plea bargaining
Late night early results
The Bill White line
Mayor to polluters: Clean up or else
Why people subscribe to conspiracy theories
Vote!
Open predictions thread
I don't just blog the news, I live it
Cactus Records resurrected
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 5
First came Cheney, now comes Bush
Hype versus truth regarding Metro
Where the food is in Houston
Fall back report
New digs for Saint Arnold's located?
TIERS: Still bad
Feel the burn!
"Minor challenger"
Mayor White endorses HISD bond referendum
Chupacabra report
Bonds or tax cuts?
Lawmakers want agency ad dollars audited
Endorsement watch: Vote for 'em all!
One more look at the early vote
What next for the Dome?
Patrick v Van Arsdale, Round 2
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
Endorsement watch: Those other bonds
HOPE rally
Perry predicts Prop 15 passage
Crime lab cases being reviewed
Last day to vote early
Harris County DA holds off on death penalty cases
Could be worse - could be Austin
Who rides the train?
Freeway expansion forces closure of Fiesta
Help DFA support Rick Noriega
KBH weasels on S-CHIP
Endorsement watch: One bond
Chron favors Bissonnet high rise ordinance
Mincberg makes his entry
The Joe Moreno Community Center
Hang up and drive in school zones
Construction and deconstruction update
More on the Astrodome Redevelopment opposition
Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Exonerating the Innocent
How the Candy Man stole Halloween
Blog My Wage
"Including this one..."
The Daylight Savings Time shuffle
Sugar Land's red light cameras roll out
Referendum Roundup
"A low turnout affair"
Reliant and Rodeo oppose Astrodome Redevelopment
Endorsement watch: Mayor White and the HISD bond referendum
Expand the map
I'd call it a game-changer, wouldn't you?
HOPE-ing for higher wages
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 29
Houston TexBlog PAC fundraiser a success
Endorsement watch: HCCS trustees
The HISD bond opposition makes its case
Early voting: Week two
Monster Mash and Fall Festival
Art Hall for Railroad Commissioner
Endorsement watch: RichmondRail.org
Construction near where I work
Lateral!
Endorsement watch: The HISD bond referendum
Light rail funding
Weekend Noriega update
Walle and Gutierrez
Anti-Bissonnet high rise ordinance proposed
Emmett: No lawsuit yet
Red light camera money
Prop 15 opposition ramps up
From the Unintended Consequences Department
Urban League endorses HISD bond
Doing the referendum shuffle
"Get Ashby High"
Historic? Check. Protected? Not so much
Citywide WiFi
Still work to be done before the rail lines get built
For whom you gonna root?
Council approves Woodlands deal
E-filing execution appeals
Reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser on Monday
The Chief blogger
Bonds here, bonds there
Community college funding finally fixed
The phantom vibration menace
Council to vote on Woodlands deal today
Token tax cut passes
Now what for Noriega?
Interview with Paula Harris
Observer versus DPS in court today
Crime lab review panel begins its work
Scaife v Scaife
Why lotteries make me queasy, in a nutshell
Bush 41 endorses Prop 15
The HISD District 2 trustee overview
Proposition 4
Watts dropping out of Senate race
Early voting Google map
Craddick D update
The Pearland anti-smoking referendum
Metro's five year plan
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 22
Ronnie Earle to retire?
The Mayoral race
Saavedra speaks
Early voting begins today
"A shame, and a surprise"
I-45 Coalition touts tunnel at City Hall
Dumbledore comes out
The HCC trustee races
Endorsement watch: Mayor White
The District I overview
PUC denies request to halt Kenedy wind farm
Still waiting for DeLay's day in court
Houston Votes Kick-off Voter Registration Training
Who endorses you, baby?
Still more complaints filed against Keller
Judge narrows sign ordinance injunction
The HISD District 4 overview
Where the U-Line goes in the east
ACORN endorses HISD bond referendum
Old Sixth Ward home tour Sunday
No more Wahoo
Trees on Kirby update
"Baby Jessica", 20 years later
The District B overview
Candidates and back taxes
Metro picks Cummins-Elgin option
CHIP veto upheld
Get ready for the U-Line decision
Texas Congressional fundraising numbers
State Rep. Robert Puente to retire
Lawsuit filed over allegations of voter fraud
S-CHIP day
RIP, Fort Bend Now
The District E overview
Emmett, Bacarisse spar over trivia
"Views divided" (sort of) on Keller
Don't delete that email!
Farmers Branch loses another one in court
Don't forget the east end of the line
Is cable programming killing network TV?
The At Large #5 overview
What did Saavedra promise to the unions?
Chron: Keller must go
Harris County GOP: We're not pro-cancer!
Two for Supreme Court Place 7
Railroad commissioner
Update on the DPS/Observer kerfuffle
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 15
Watts' quarterly report
HOPE and CHIP
Port bonds
Those other bonds
Shooting yourself in the foot, Irving-style
DPS owed $620 million in unpaid surcharges
October 18th is U-Line Day
Watterson on Schulz
Wheatley
Endorsement watch: Five for City Council
KBH to vote for S-CHIP veto override
Sing for the cure
Spellings for Governor?
Bad fortune cookies
Examiner claims about Bissonnet high rise disputed
KBH: I hate blogs!
Coleman to Abbott: File suit over CHIP
McCall speaks, and other items
Panel to review HPD crime lab cases
Endorsement watch: More officeholders for the bonds
Endorsement watch: Prop 15
Sam Houston for Supreme Court
Friday rumormongering: More R-to-D switches coming?
Father, may I?
Another complaint to be filed against Keller
Complaint filed against Keller over death penalty appeal
Park fees ordinance passes Council
Don't think pink
Bissonnet tower first discussed in 2005
Big TxDOT is watching you
City asks for narrowing of billboard injunction
Armstrong to campaign for Prop 15
No more catalogs!
AG opinion sought in Bexar needle exchange pilot
Council campaign cash, 30 days out
BOR interview with Watts and Noriega
Interview with Kevin Hoffman
Mincberg for County Judge kickoff event
It's property tax cut season
The District D overview
How many birds are we talking about?
Endorsement watch: Districts B and C
HISD and union support
Interview with Will Williams
Dan Barrett for HD97
District C overview
A suggestion for the Hannah Montana problem
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 8
Bundling jail bonds
TMO will not support the HISD bond referendum
Have you registered to vote?
Upper Kirby compromise reached
Interview with Reginald Adams
The haunted house business
Handicapped-parking activists unite
AFL-CIO endorses HISD bond proposal
Ten...nine...eight...
The Chron on the Bissonnet high rise
Turnout and Prop 15
How about that utility dereg?
Abstinence education funding cuts coming
More tort "reform" commentary
Comptroller blinks in dispute against HCAD
The HISD bond opposition organizes
Construction begins at the old Ed Sacks Waste Paper site
Kay Granger targeted for S-CHIP override vote
Primary in JP Precinct 1
Endorsement watch: Edwards for Adams, HPOU for Sullivan
CPPP statement to Cornyn on S-CHIP
Good-bye, Allen House
RIP, Lisa Moore
Will the S-CHIP veto be overridden?
On nominating judges
Reward for KPFT shooting info
Freed after 14 years
Bissonnet high rise protesters get some results
Greater Houston Partnership endorses HISD bond proposal
Form-based planning
How to avoid computer viruses in one easy lesson
Our state dinosaur: Not who you thought it was
Joe Heflin named "Legislator of the Year"
Border mayors tell feds to stay off their property
Alvarado looks to HD145
S-CHIP vetoed
Melissa Noriega With DFA's Jim Dean Thursday Night
Interview with Annette Dwyer
Hardin versus the high rise
Offshore wind leases granted
Two more hurricanes
If only there were some way to track where it went
It's never enough, is it?
A look at At Large #2
How much is not waiting for that train to pass worth to you?
Interview with Jolanda Jones
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 1
How about that tort reform?
PUC to hear wind farm appeal
A Republican identifies their top targets
Noriega reports $570K raised
Manlove to run for Congress
Watch those right-on-red turns starting today
Interview with Wanda Adams
More endorsements for Noriega
Proposition 11: Recorded votes
The Catholic Church versus the border wall
Mammoth DNA
The demolition begins for Allen House
High rises and the Z word
LULAC endorses HISD bond proposal
At Large #3, take three
Last time I'll nag you (this quarter) for a donation
Astros retain Cooper
More on the Hispanic Chamber endorsement of the HISD bond referendum
AusChron gives TexBlog PAC a mention
Franchione the capitalist
Big food in Clear Lake
Endorsement watch: District I
TxDOT claims poverty
District D candidate switches to At Large #1
Bionic Woman 2.0
Endorsement watch: HISD Trustees
Senate passes S-CHIP
HISD gets Hispanic Chamber endorsement
Baseline poll for TX-SEN
State Proposition 2
Farmers Branch, this may be your life
More on the Bissonnet high-rise battle
Earle prepares for trial
City gets slapped in billboard battle
One thousand and one hundred thousand
Swamplot
More charges for Vick
Getting crowded in CD22
SCOTUS to take up voter ID laws
S-CHIP bill passes the House, but not by enough
CCA denies motion for rehearing
Christie's back
Interview with Marlon Barabin
Border fence details now available
TLCV rates Houston legislators
First TexBlog PAC fundraiser a smashing success
Kirby renovation by the numbers
S-CHIP vote in the House today
HISD still struggling with the bond referendum
Interview with James Rodriguez
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 24
The anti-Bolsover
Fifty years of vocational training
The end (?) of hurricane season in Texas
Noriega wins DFT endorsement
The ghosts of Flatbush
Interview with Council Member Anne Clutterbuck
GLBT Political Caucus endorses revised HISD bond proposal
Another high-rise, another neighborhood uproar
Revitalizing Montrose
When A Meter Is A Natural Disaster
Those damn call centers again
No help for Rita victims
The five-spot gets a makeover
I-45 Coalition website and status update
Like An Episode Of 24, Only It Really Happened
Last chance to vote in DFT Senate Endorsement poll
Uncle Dan update
More on Rep. England's party switch
DPS' quixotic fight against the Observer
Wading in
Winning the write-in way
Rep. Delisi to retire
Win now, rest later
Uri Geller bends copyright law with his mind!
How many innocent "guilty" people are there?
Don't forget to vote in the DFT Senate Endorsement poll
Feds subpoena Buckham payroll records
An HISD threefer
The progressive blogosphere cares about the Jena 6
Airport concessions contract extended
Interview with Manisha Mehta
Why recorded interviews?
Saint Arnold's location search update
Twenty-five years of smileys
Fly the WiFi-enabled skies
Of bonds and taxes
State Rep. Kirk England switches to Democratic Party
Traffic congestion increases. Film at 11.
Interview with John Marron
Democracy For Texas announces Senate endorsement poll
Bradford makes his announcement
Patrick v Van Arsdale
Billboard battle
Food fight upcoming
HISD bond proposal changes: Too little, too late?
State Rep. Fred Hill will not seek re-election
Preservation: It isn't just for Houston
S-CHIP is back
Rail on Westheimer?
Miya steps on toes
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 17
One last shot at delaying the Kenedy wind farms
Interview with Lawrence Allen
Eight hundred
Are you ready for some football in San Antonio?
The Rick Perry Road Show
Not good enough for me!
OJ busted for stealing his own memorabilia
TYC retrospective
Report from the Upper Kirby meeting
Land shark!
Christie departs, Tahir stays
A bit more about the candidates
Last call for comments to Metro on Universities line
The Chron on carpetbagging
Three strikes for Christie
Crossley on the Kirby construction
Allen House: Getting ready to go away
Adopt-A-Beach 2007
Teaching children to fear
Noriega racks up endorsements in Cameron County
Mario Gallegos' Very, Very Good Idea
More on the non-residency story
What's so bad about a food fight?
I Love Lucy
HOPE in Houston
I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords
Welcome, new citizens. Now get ready to vote!
(Not) in residency
Rick Noriega's Tribute to Sgt. Omar Mora
Noriega on Cornyn and the surge
TexBlog PAC fundraiser
Goodbye, Humberto
More on the upcoming Upper Kirby renovation
The spread of red light cameras: Sugar Land and Missouri City
Hello, Humberto
Gone
Chang named District Clerk
The Chron on Weingarten and preservation
Meet The Candidates In Clear Lake Tonight
Interview with Joe Trevino
More on Bradford v Rosenthal, the Sequel
Ya no puede caminar
King v Kenedy, still fighting it out
More grumbling about the HISD bond vote
Lampson, Al Green, Jackson-Lee And Others Comment on Bringing The Troops Home
Ron Reynolds update
District Clerk appointee to be named today
My visit to the Center
Books by people I know
Everything you wanted to know about Kirby Drive reconstruction
How will the Woodlands govern itself?
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 10
Rick on FDL
Behind the scenes with the River Oaks preservation efforts
Interview with Zaf Tahir
For want of an attorney
News flash: Hispanics abandoning GOP
Neighborhood development
Talk about your bad polls...
What Rick said about blogs
Lance Armstrong at Rice
Lawsuit against updated Georgia voter ID law dismissed
Potato!
The HCCS Trustee elections
Bradford v Rosenthal, round 2
A challenger for Vo - anybody else?
Design change for the Astrodome hotel
Four for Bacarisse's job
More on TxDOT's PR offensive
NASA's Urban Legend Problem
Photos from the River Oaks Shopping Center demolition
The Center Opens Group Homes for Mentally Retarded Adults
Smoke-free Sugar Land
Voter education forum this Saturday
In the Pink Texas Monthly
DOJ opposes net neutrality
Still time for the HISD bond referendum?
Looscan Library ribbon-cutting (with photos)
More on the announced candidates
Yanez announces for Supreme Court
"The Evolver"
Another year, another dollar coin design
EZ Tag traffic down
The filing deadline approacheth
It's Time For HISD's "Reach Out To Dropouts" Effort
Prop 15 campaign kickoff at Rice today
Only six more to go
Que Quechup?
Why is Kinky Friedman still in my newspaper?
"Dirty Jobs"
HFD Intern blogging
Olivo gets primaried again
And so the demolition begins
Tolling the interstates?
Is it a surcharge if no one pays it?
Jack comes to the radio dial
Q&A on the Universities line
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 3
Hello, Felix
From the "Things My Parents Didn't Have To Deal With" Department
TAB indictment thrown out again
A candidate for HD144
Republicans no hablan español.
Where are the anti-death penalty candidates?
The happy Wanderers
EarthLink pays for delay in citywide wi-fi
Council approves new red light camera rules
The Woodlands' destiny is in its hands
A response from the billboard industry
Let it be up to the neighborhood
Bacarisse makes it official
O'Day won't seek re-election
Is it Halloween already?
Sheehan on Purpura
And speaking of red light cameras
Red light camera enforcement comes to The Woodlands
Texas Democratic icons endorse Noriega
Bacarisse to step down tomorrow?
U-line DEIS hearing post-mortem
Trees and the Universities line
Name, height, weight, URL
Beautifying the bayou
The magic C-note
Astros can Purpura and Garner
Anti-smoking ban lawsuit dismissed
"Did not!" won't get you out of a red light camera ticket
Corporations dropped from TAB lawsuit
Bacarisse to step down?
TYC still outsourcing custody of 10-13 year olds
Diana Maldonado for HD52
"National Brotherhood Week"
The cost of your wedding is about to increase
Some endorsements for Noriega
From the "Pollsters With Too Much Free Time" department
Kilgore!
Not much bonding
Vick suspended indefinitely
Some intelligence on "intelligent design"
The return of the DeLorean
Digital billboards
The Eureka corridor
Fixing the fence
Is that your uniform number or your age?
Stephen King and Harry Potter
Thirty!
Goodbye, Dean
I don't see any dissent. Do you?
HISD bond skepticism
Lawsuit filed by ex-SOS lawyer
Downtown towers sprouting up everywhere
Watch those right-on-red turns
Burge departs Sports Authority
Permit for demolition acquired
Hope you kept the receipt for that ring
How much would you pay for that advertising blitz?
Craddick and Keel
Can This Name Change Be Stopped?
RIP, Eddie Griffin
Why does the President want children to be sick?
Dean in Mexico
Strike three for the SOBs
A conversation with David Baldwin
The warped lock-em-up mentality
Cater to me or else!
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 20
Cornyn to Bush: Stay away! (But send money!)
Vick takes a plea
Special master for HPD crime lab urged again
Dean heads towards Mexico
On Latino political power
JK Rowling's new gig
"The distinguished gentleman"
A chip off the old block
Dean headed for Mexico
Still more new frontiers in caffeination
"It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."
You can't sue me! I'm suing you!
Does EarthLink want out?
Dean strengthens, moves south
Another special election?
Oyster-related crime is on the rise in Texas
Waiting for Kay Bailey
Starting to worry about Dean
Is Rube Goldberg in the house?
The shopping center still stands for now
Where will the stations be?
Hands Across El Rio
Score one for the hippie bohemian attorneys
Talton says he's in for CD22
Noriega: One month in
Questions for Frank Michel about the Center
More on the KPFT shooting
From the "Some People Never Learn" Department
Erin and Dean
Council approves sale of land to Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
It's Hippie Bohemian Attorney Day at City Council
First, you have to admit that you have a problem
Two more Vick codefendants to plead out
Paying for green space
Everyone wants to welcome Karl Rove back to Texas
RIP, Phil Rizzuto
You there! Put that cigarette out!
Cut and plug
Who will run for the CCA?
History everywhere you look
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 13
How to welcome Karl Rove home
Rover
More on the Universities DEIS
KPFT targeted for "alternative" programming?
Two hundred
The cost
Hot summer television
A tour of Lower Westheimer
Rent-a-protester update
The right way to go
Nice shoes, Counselor
Davis is in for SD10
Chat with Rick Noriega on Firedoglake
Reminder: Rick on Firedoglake today
Weekend Facebook update
Rent-a-protester
HISD bond referendum officially on the ballot
Tougher times ahead for the GOP, says Abbott
Top Hispanic Republican backs Noriega for Senate
Behold the power of Facebook
Run, dammit
Arguing over the 1997 Houston map
Announcing the Texas Blog PAC
In the matter of Corwin Teltschik
Don't do us any favors
The Hispanics are coming!
Corpus Christi citywide WiFi rollout completed
More on SD10
Mowery resigns, special election coming
About those border cameras...
I Will Not Shop At The West Gray Barnes & Noble
Chron story on Universities DEIS
Council filings are now open
River Oaks Shopping Center: Going, going...
Seven fifty-six
Cornyn still flipflopping on the fence
Money, it's a hit
On supporting Michael Vick
Yao gets hitched
The next (last?) SOB appeal gets underway
National Night Out is tonight
Noriega now part of BlueAmerica
Against it before he was for it
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 7
Council vote on Center may come today
Report card time
HGLBT Endorses Candidates in November 6th Races
Last chance to speak out for the River Oaks Shopping Center
Feds knew about TYC, took no action
Lawsuit filed over smoking ban
"For Fun, For Life, For You"
Backroom gambling in Houston
iPod noise pollution
Reconsidering the motion to reconsider
Bonds ties Aaron
Change of Command photos
University Corridor Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
A footnote on the new Costco and light rail
Bexar DA rains on needle exchange pilot
Harris County bond vote coming
Now it's up to Abbott
Another report on voting machine problems
Hurricane forecast updated for 2007
At Yearly Kos with Rick Noriega
Primaries everywhere you look
The amendment lineup for the fall election
HISD asks for bond money
Amicus brief filed to CCA on behalf of Earle request
Asking questions about the red light cameras
New TDP website
Noriega liveblogging on Daily Kos
Old Sixth Ward protections pass City Council
Infernal update
Four day school week on hold for now
Walton and Johnson move to 950 AM
Fifteen geek novels to read before you die
SafeClear renewal pending
Hotze lawsuit against city over revenue caps tossed
Noriega for Texas video
Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation update
By the way, the TYC is still broken
Mighty expensive groceries you've got there, Mister Speaker
Burka on Heflin
Lampson op-ed on Farm Bill
What "innocent till proven guilty" really means
But who might take advantage?
Laney disputes Craddick's absolute power
Development along the Main Street line
HOT or not?
Bad ad placement
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 30
Astros punt on Ensberg
Back to the future with Talmadge Heflin
RIP, Marvin Zindler
JudgeCriss dot com
One more thing about the community college veto
Thanks for the timely warning
Homeless in suburbia
It is finished
A new Costco coming
Rainout!
The eight habits of highly successful commuter rail lines
Lady Bird Lake
Maybe not so Comcastic for some
DADS: We're not that bad
Congratulations anyway
Community college leaders to state: Hurry up!
Craddick to former parliamentarian: Shut up!
Judge overturns Hazelton anti-immigrant law
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to hire Accenture again
Further dispatches from the "Good news, bad news" files
Hurricane season so far: Good news, bad news
Define "full time"
Reversal of community college funding veto?
Metro to discuss HOV/HOT lanes with TxDOT today
Noriega visits the Valley, slams Cornyn
Houston: Greener than you think
Capitol Annex interviews Joe Jaworski
"He pulled a Mackey"
Get yer HOT lanes here
But what will I read in the checkout lines?
S-CHIP: The Republican cookie crumbles
Infernal Bridegroom shuts down
More on the state school abuse scandal
Biggio calls it a career
Take action on S-CHIP
Four-day school weeks?
Fake fundraising
More on the 290 widening
My cousin, the hero
Have you been Comcasted yet?
Prosecute or not?
The next TYC scandal
Rove sneaks in to give Cornyn a hand
Pilot needle exchange program gets underway in San Antonio
Are you wanted by the police?
Last public comment event for US290 widening today
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 23
What their bumper stickers say about them
RIP, Heather Burcham
Who's your PAC?
Talk radio changes coming
Preservation, then and now
Cigarette sales down for now
Spoiler shields still up
Nick Lampson In The House
Texas portion of border fence construction to begin next year
RIP-to-be, Lisa Moore
More briefs filed for Speaker ruling from Abbott
Dog lovers weigh in on Vick
GHCVB still suffering leadership woes
Call it something else, please
Extreme commuting, Texas style
Rick Noriega In Houston On Saturday
Border fence buyer's remorse for Cornyn
The return of the Franchise
On the record with me
He'd call a special session for that?
More toll roads, higher tolls
Why should CD22 get all the fun?
Council passes wind power proposal
Support ActBlue on Blogosphere Day
Mike Engelhart fundraiser
Mighty big brick you've got there
Amarillo says red light cameras are effective
Mackey apologizes, but doesn't quite get it
Michael Vick indicted
City Council legal spending
How the GOP is gearing up for 2008
Mark Cuban and the Cubs
The seven wonders of Houston
Farmers Branch seeks a makeover
Frisbee turns fifty
More on the now-online city campaign finance reports
Noriega announces
Testing TEAM
Sock puppets and the people who love them
The McLane factor
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 16
Bolsover bohemian battle details
City campaign finance reports now available online
Michael Harris
Noriega for Senate kicks off today
Earle asks CCA to reconsider
Outsourcing FEMA
Dynamo Stadium deadline extended
Bush Promises To Veto CHIP Expansion
TYC outsourcing custody of 10-13 year olds
Bunker Hill widening revisited
Mackey draws SEC's attention
Classroom blogging
Fundraising: Lampson and Cornyn
What about that smoking ban?
Wind power for the city
More on inmate outsourcing
Report from the Tejano Democrats endorsement meeting
When CEOs blog badly
Fundraising numbers - Grant and Jaworski
Don't wear your iPod in a thunderstorm
Outsourcing inmates
Trees cut down at River Oaks shopping center
Cornyn attacks Watts
A tour of the freight trains
Astro-Whirled
Harris County Tejano Democrats meeting tonight
Noriega on Lady Bird
RIP, Lady Bird Johnson
But, Do We Need To Stock Up On Duct Tape?
Better times at BARC
Noriega to announce tomorrow
The Hill on Noriega and Watts
Take the train to the plane (someday)
Frew settlement okayed by judge
More on tollway congestion pricing
Giving bloggers credit
County bonds and staffing issues
Watts raises $1.1 million
Four for Senate?
Don't mess with Borris
My pneumonia experience
On the SOB battle
Spoiler alert level: High
The Chron's Noriega story
Border sheriffs say "Where's our money?"
Astro Weeds
If it's so great, why don't you run for it?
Kyle Janek's Future Plans
Send Bush A Birthday Card
Real preservation laws coming soon?
Houston Crime: On the Uptick ... Still
Noriega in the Star-Telegram
Home again
Oswalt's in
Increased safety at railroad crossings is a good thing
Who Wants To Run Against Nick Lampson?
Have You Seen SICKO?
Teen's death brings about attention for hate crime bill
Rick Noriega On the Fourth Of July: Announces His Intent To Form A Senate Exploratory Committee
Happy Fourth!
Waving At Sugar Land
Day labor center will live to see another year
Google making me sick-o
Rep. Pete Gallego: Texas Needs Rick Noriega As Our Senator
Houston City Hall Water Crisis Averted
A tale of two cities (and their police departments)
The trash man cometh - just maybe not today
Vote for Roy O!
Rick Noriega To Announce Senate Exploratory Committee Soon
EPIDEMIC!
OffTheKuff = OutWithPneumonia
Philosophical Questions Department
Keel to stay on as parliamentarian
No rail along I-10?
"Draft Rick" in the Observer
No diapers!
Time flies like an arrow
I do not have an iPhone
Aiyer takes a plea
Where the votes are: HD136
Fly like an eagle
Sports guy talk radio
Great show! You're fired!
Biggio 3000
One of these officials is not like the others
Texas: Still growing like gangbusters
The reasoning behind the CCA's decision on DeLay
CQ on CD10
"I don't feel tardy"
The giant blue porn-hating elephant
Harry Potter hacked?
Welcome to the club
CCA upholds DeLay
More on J. Fred Duckett
The Mayor and the veterans
For that kind of revenue stream, I'd be a Pepper
Next time, ask Tory first
Teen suicide
Well, somebody likes those fifty-dollar lottery tickets
Those four little letters
Felony charge filed against Jay Aiyer
Saw 'em off, I don't care
RIP, J. Fred Duckett
Probate court
Hu? What?
King versus Kenedy continued
Once again with jury duty
Keeping the gas stations stocked
We still need a special master for the crime lab
Rick Noriega's record of accomplishment
Where the votes are these days
A piece of The Stables lives on
When CEOs blog
Red light cameras: Still more to come
One more time: No special session!
Keep your hands off my garlic!
Shaq's Big Challenge
"Fire-safe" cigarettes
West 11th Street Park wrapup
The city of Houston's top five athletes
What's it to Wikipedia?
Day Labor centers
Historic Status on tap?
Cragg Hines is retiring
Zoo prices
More pension deal details
We have congested streets? Why wasn't I told?
OK, we get it - you don't like it
The Ten Commandments of driving
New gig for Mary Beth Harrell
Whitemire involved in lawsuit
Pension deal reached
Congestion pricing? What congestion pricing?
Backlash on Westpark Toll Road fees
Give platelets
Independent at last!
Don't stop downloadin'
Farmers Branch and Hazelton
Assessing the vetoes
Hilary Green
More on the county bonds proposal
Keep (your car) off the grass
On not seeing the congestion for the cars
Not so clever Hans
Steve Murdock gets a new gig
Dyslexia and crime
An interchange? What a concept!
Framed!
County bonds coming
"Where's Orlando?" update
Chet Edwards?
Abbott's opinion sought on Craddick's power
Money will be raised, primaries will be fought. Film at 11.
Dyslexia
Philly's WiFi experience so far
Draft Rick Noriega
Girl Scouts
Move that brewery
A few questions for the Cockroach Lady
Ed versus Charles
A way forward for the HPD Crime Lab
More discussion of Kotkin and "Opportunity Urbanism"
Happy Father's Day, you old coot
Victory
The long march for Dome redevelopment financing continues onward
From the "Timing Is Everything" Department
Off to Melissa's election night party
Today's the day - Vote!
Here are the vetoes
Coaches, schmoaches
Will the dissing ever end for Pluto?
It's not about Roy
Right message, wrong messenger
Mikal Watts talks
First Houston, now Conroe
Still more red light cameras coming
Keeping an eye on the River Oaks Shopping Center
Meet the new SOS
The final HPD lab report
The 2007 Best and Worst Legislators
Meeting on H-GAC transportation plan tonight
Accenture may be gone, but privatization lingers
More on Roger Williams
How much would you pay for all that Comcasticness?
Perry signs cancer research bill
From the "Why Every Vote Counts" Department
On the new red light camera (not quite yet) law
A moment of Audrey
Innocence matters
Kotkin v. Falkenberg
Mammoth extinction: Not our fault
Offshore wind farms are a no go
Susan Criss for Supreme Court
Still spoiling
How many more signs of the Apocalypse do we need?
Early voting: Last chance
Happy Loving Day
The Hermann Park Train
Roger Williams steps down as SOS
Sklar will not run again in 2008
MLB celebrates the Army's birthday
Pension still pending
So much for staying spoiler-free
Early voting: I'll let John handle it
What was finally done about the TYC?
Causation, correlation, and car burglaries
The Lottery: Still not a game for the rich
Wi-tricity?
Early voting: A quick look at San Antonio
San Antonio gets on the municipal WiFi bandwagon
The final "Sopranos" tonight
What's the deal with baby dealers?
Early voting: Quote this!
An overview of TEAM
Tech recycling comes to Houston
False alarm clampdown contemplated
West 11th park officially out of the woods
Texas Film Commission bill signed
The Beatles are coming!
Watts goes all in
How would you run this marathon?
Temporary arthouse construction pictures
Why you should listen to your attorney
Ellen Cohen retires from HAWC
Tax breaks for historic buildings passed by Council
Early voting: The wrong question
Early voting: Candidate forum Saturday
NYT obituary for Steve Gilliard
Temporary art in the Heights
Restraining order extended in Farmers Branch
When lawns get out of hand
"Just be yourself"
Three!
HB1919 still needs your help
Early voting: The one-trick pony
Bradford still part of K-Mart lawsuit
Fixing TEAM
No safe harbor for SOBs in Harris County
Comcast: We hope we don't suck
Early voting Day Two
Fox versus Crosby conclusion
Houston: The European car commercial backdrop city
Another football league?
An overview of parks funding
Early voting begins today for Houston runoff elections
The Menil turns 20
Fox versus Crosby update
A question for those with Google Fu
Olivia goes to Reckling Park
Where can you get a drink in this town?
The session from the Houston/Harris perspective
Loch Ness Monster
Dome financing comes through
RIP, Steve Gilliard
Why SB482 died
The Harry Potter Experience
Guess the list
Three transit stories
Sylvester wants a special, Dewhurst wants a do-over
Still not out of the woods for the West 11th Street Park?!?
Julie Boyle update
Wallace will not run in CD22
Friday random music question
Stop the damn fence!
The new trash fees
No! Don't come back!
More on Turner for Speaker
600 Sq Mi deadline tomorrow
Why do they call you "Hot Tub Tom", Hot Tub Tom?
How to speak to global warming skeptics
Henry Cisneros to buy Carol Burnett's house
Metro's partnership
Sly for Speaker?
Fox versus Crosby
Governor Perry's first veto
"We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!"
"Lost" Season 3 screen cap recap
CD Death Watch: One more Christmas
On the wrong TEAM
Eight for '08
At long last, sine die
Barry vs the Hall
Another Corpus Christi WiFi update
New trash days coming for some
Lampson not running for Senate
What passes for normal
Quorum busted after budget vote
Budget passes
Duck and cover, or head for the hills?
North Line BRT groundbreaking in July
Reports of HB13's death were exaggerated
Talton the Torpedo strikes
Comments on Memorial Day
Oh, yeah, the budget, too
CHIP deal reached
What next in the House?
Strip clubs get an stay of execution
Not so fast on that Astrodome reprieve
Earthlink passes test in Philadelphia
Afternoon update on the mess in the House
And the fun begins again
So what happened last night?
Grits on the death of HB13
West 11th Street Park saved!
Cleaner cement for Dallas
Is this finally it?
Senfronia for Speaker!
The CHIP endgame
Weakened toll road moratorium finally passes
Another reprieve for the Astrodome
Is HB13 going down?
RIP, statewide smoking ban
Anti-rail lawsuit details
Get ready to say Good-bye to the River Oaks Shopping Center
Tron!
Still waiting to vacate
More endorsements for Noriega
We have TiVo again
Goodbye SB419, hello HB1919
What about the red light camera bills?
Is SB1317 dead?
Strip club fee passes the Senate
Budget deal reached
Aaron and Bonds
WiFi woes?
A satisfying driving experience
One more step towards independence for the Woodlands
Dewhurst gives up the pursuit of HB218
Anti-rail lawsuit ruling
Senate passes CHIP bill
Rose and Lucio
Heck of a job, Joshie
Super Bowl XLV to be in Arlington
Rockets hire Adelman
This year's hurricane plans
Time for the annual "Very Active Hurricane Season" forecast
Anti-abortion bills die
"Not if, but when"
RIP, SB785?
Dewhurst: Senate will pass CHIP bill today
A short rant about TiVo customer service
Four! Four for Speaker!
Darned Good Questions Department
Speed trap camera bill goes to Governor Perry
TRO granted in Farmers Branch lawsuit
The taxes of sin
Campos smacks Lopez
Byron Cook tells Craddick to resign
Lawsuit against Roy Morales
And then there were three
The effect of SB785
Sen. Gallegos back in Austin
Vacating, all I ever wanted
Ten years of camera phones
Selling out
You got yours, now we get ours
As the session winds down
SB419 on the calendar
More money for parks
True Courage Awards
Gallegos' absence and the last days of the session
Barry and the Babe revisited
Meet the BARC boss tomorrow
Toll road moratorium in limbo
CHIP expansion finally nearing
Anti-abortion bills postponed till today
Revisiting Heflin-Vo
Anti-rail "lawsuit" hearing
Where's the review?
Digital singles
Making the case for Dynamo Stadium
An open letter to Les Alexander
It takes a village of bohemian hippie attorneys
Uh oh
Last chance to support SB419
Hopefully the last thing I'll have to say about Dewhurst and HB218
Budget yes, pension plan not yet
Another delay from Bonnen
"Bill Ceverha bill" passes the House
Journey for "Jessica's Law" nears its end
Watch out for shifting taxes
The strangest press release I've ever gotten
Amended Carona bill passes out of the House
Is this the end of the line for HB218?
Another aspect of the Speaker's race
Andy Neill endorses Melissa Noriega
Joe Pojman speaks
Senate at recess: Now what?
Bonnen versus Bonnen
That's a marriage class I'd pay for
Response to Mayor's response
Dynamo Stadium deal being negotiated
"The Bionic Woman" lives
More toll road maneuvering
Marriage tax hike goes to Governor
Farmers Branch lawsuits filed
Craddick: Bring it on
Dewhurst: Sleazier and sleazier
Mayor disputes pension story
By any means necessary for Dewhurst
Keffer files for Speaker
Voter ID chaos in the Senate
The state of the Speaker's race
And speaking of cameras
Still more red light cameras
Prom night
How about best five out of nine?
More city pension woes
Lobbying for Craddick
Speaker's Race II: The Wrath of Tom
Weingarten begins process for River Oaks demolition
More public funding for the Astrodome Hotel?
Talking 'bout my generation
The commercial side of the Art Car Parade
Election wrapup: Farmers Branch
Election wrapup: New Braunfels
Election wrapup: Houston City Council
Runoff coming
Here come the bikini bars
Get out there and vote!
Farmers Branch mayor: Vote against the ordinance
One bourbon, one scotch, and one lottery ticket
Forty-one cents
HB1892 veto coming
Exporting our bad ideas
City to SOBs: Move it or lose it
Care to revise and extend your turnout estimate?
Metro "lawsuit" hearing on Tuesday
CHIP administrative issues
Burka on SB1317
HB159 goes down
Rep. Farrar's personal privilege speech on HB1098
Targeting 2008: CD10
Feds keep circling around Tom DeLay
Metro gets some corridors started
More talk of a special session
House approves TYC reform bill
Stop HB159
More on the anti-Craddick revolt
Death to fire ants!
The end of "Lost" is coming, but not quite yet
Bilingual children's TV
The cost of the anti-SOB battle
Overruled!
Last chance to vote early today
Farrar on HB13's passage
HB1224 update
2035 Regional Transportation Plan
No commuter rail from Intermodal Terminal?
"Gutted" statewide smoking ban bill passes the House
HB13 passes the House
Anti-clean air bill gets moved to friendlier turf
More HB13 debunking
If not you, then who?
HB13: Swinford and Culberson
Dynamo: Moving near the Astros?
How unromantic
Great moments in publishing
Roger Clemens signs with the Yankees
Transportation roundup
Bill roundup
Have I mentioned voting?
The fifty-dollar scratch-off game
Two for CD10
Anti-clean air bill referred to Urban Affairs
Statewide smoking ban hits a snag
Vote!
HB218: Disenfranchisement stories
Michael Berry interview
Dewhurst finally sees the light on CHIP
HB13 maneuvering
HB218: No action in the Senate yet
Early voting: West University Place
Benefit for Mark Strawn tonight
Mayor White editorializes for clean air
Bye-bye, Three Brothers
No speed trap cameras
"Pro Tem Four" to be tried together
"Budgets are moral documents"
How about those centralized voter databases?
The swiftboating of Rick Noriega
HB1224 and Applied Behavior Analysis
Early voting: Current info in San Antonio
Dan Grant announces for CD10
More from Rep. Farrar on HB13
More border fence opposition
TYC update: Downsizing the wrong way
More on the Senate's anti-clean air bill
Brush your teeth!
Perry gets the toll road blues
Buddy, can you spare a cockroach?
HB626 passes out of the House
Senate votes against clean air
RIP, ARMPAC
Early voting: San Antonio and Dallas
Targeting 2008: State Senate
Define-A-Thon
News flash: Border wall still hated on the border
HB626 stalls, HB218 advances
Early voting in New Braunfels
State Auditor busts TxDOT
The circle of life in Lobbyist Land
Where all the draftees are pretty, and every class is above average
HB626: Not any better
Compromise on HB626?
Early voting in Farmer's Branch
Early voting starts today
Round Two of voter ID today in the House
Open letter to Mayor White about Houston Media Source
Money talks, but only if you can hear it
Possibly the only Chron story you'll see about the May 12 election
Chron endorses Melissa Noriega
The clock is ticking for the West 11th Street Park
Why don't you come back here and say that?
A new toll road concern
And the toll road confrontation is on
Early voting starts Monday for the City Council special election
Michael Berry, radio mogul
Voter ID again on Monday
Friday random ten: The group participation edition
Lactation consultation
Scarbrough's petition
Uptown corridor planning workshop
Help Eagle Pass
HPV showdown looming
System benefit fund advances
Editorial roundup on HB218
Freeway noise at Memorial Park
Alabama-Coushatta settle with Abramoff
Berman's campaign finance bill advances
Spinal Tap!
Here comes Mario
When good things happen to bad bills
Targeting 2008: Pete Sessions
Saints preserve us!
Is that all there is?
"Jessica's Law" passes out of Senate
Letter from border police chiefs regarding HB13
A slideshow of racist spokescharacters
A pocketful of Kryptonite
TSEU on TIERS and HHSC
Light pollution
Combs rescinds Strayhorn's question about the business tax
Senate blocks Perry's HPV order
One voter ID measure passes, one gets delayed
Farrar on HB13
The Center's letter of intent with the city
Take this dog, please
More on wiretapping in Texas
Save chocolate!
Voter ID debate going on
It's not just a partisan dispute
HHSC response to OIG report
Monday random thirty
Another bohemian hippie attorney update
Vroom! Vroooommmm!
What about the other nonprofit leases?
Common Cause on Voter ID
Cigarette run!
It's official: Ray Jones will not be on the May 12 ballot
More details on the Center's deal with the city
Metro response to "lawsuit" coming soon
The Sixth Ward and the Planning Commission
The Center's deal with the city
Announcement of agreement with the Center
Senate says "No smoking till 19"
Toll road moratorium bill passes from Senate
Senate passes TYC reform bill
Deal or no deal on Jessica's Law?
TDEx bill approved in committee
Friday random ten: The other side of the CD shelf
What if Harry Potter was a black kid?
"She maketh me to drive down concrete pastures"
It's only a compromise if both sides give up something
Not the campaign finance reform bill I was expecting
The day without BlackBerry
Fund CHIP fully or lose money
Finding #755
TIERS for Albert Hawkins
600 Sq Mi
The good, the bad, and the annoying
The Center for Hearing and Speech
And so it goes
Voter ID video
CLOUT can sue after all
Not the sort of headline I like to wake up to
Reminder: Fundraiser for Mark Strawn
Suffering Sappho!
Freeway blogging, Houston-style
On second chances
Campaign finance reform bills up today
Clarification of the Center's lease with the city
Time for the real sausagemaking to begin
TDEX followup
Five and ten
A rail threefer
TDEx fallout
Ban on demolition in Old Sixth Ward could be permanent
More on the DMN's death penalty change of heart
Voter ID bills coming soon
Virginia Tech
Strip club crackdown coming
Community meeting for TSU
If at first you don't succeed, amend another bill
Former City Attorney explains the deal with the Center
Chron covers the prison guard shortage
Round Rock immigration protest lawsuit settled
DMN: No more death penalty in Texas
Possibly the last thing I'll say about Danno's outburst
Houston WiFi - Not just for Houston
Jackie Robinson
Big Governor is watching you
More on Danno's outburst
Marriage meddling bill gets gutted
Fort Bend Democrats barbecue
Urban corridor planning events this weekend
More on the anti-rail "lawsuit"
"All you need is glove"
The fraud of voter fraud
Kirby storm sewer update
Lawsuit filed against Metro, sort of
"I've got a list"
Senate debates the budget
Welcome back, Sen. Gallegos
Dewhurst and CHIP
First they came for gay marriage
Council approves WiFi plan
Next time, run a red light
Stars Over Kirby update
Come to the compound!
Lawsuit filed against New Braunfels tubing ordinances
Are you registered for the special election yet?
More on the Senate budget
The Center at City Council
Toll road moratorium passes House
"Zoning" in the Heights update
Can you read me now?
Splashtown: Not going anywhere
Did we put too much aside for Frew?
TYC: Indictments handed down on Brookins and Hernandez
TYC: Reynolds' removal sought
Pearland kids get anti-smoking measure on the ballot
Friends of the Center at City Council
RIP, Johnny Hart
Ben Barnes for Senate?
Why you can't use your cellphone on an airplane
Zoning in the Heights?
What the city hopes to do with its WiFi
Diane Zamora revisited
The Chron talks trash
Speed trap!
Harris County jails: Deadlier than ever
The Mayor talks about the Center
"The Sopranos In Seven Minutes"
Throws right and left
Toll road moratorium passes Senate committee
Frew settlement
Bad baby names
City responds to Jones again
More on the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
MLB returns to InDemand cable
Please pardon the interruption
No deal yet in Frew lawsuit
The giant Presidential heads get set to move to Pearland
A chat with Berke Breathed
Red light camera bills pass out of Senate
Council members back Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
Petition for hearings on campaign finance bills
RIP, Eddie Robinson
CHIP bill passes House
Read the reports
Van Chancellor elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
Seventeen named hurricanes predicted
The 50 best tech products of all time
There's no such thing as free trash
City WiFi details emerge
Talton 2, Turner 0
I accept your offer
It wasn't all Accenture's fault
Justice for Laura Candlelight Vigil reminder
One step forward, one step back
Ah, opening day
More Council interviews
Fundraiser for Mark Strawn
Kids and restaurants
Expanding the NCAA tournament
The Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
One last hope for the Astrodome Hotel
Scratch-off ripoff revisited
Woodlands annexation legislation passes out of committee
Shaquanda Cotton
River Oaks redevelopment made official
Friday random ten: The "Better Late Than Never" edition
Budget moves forward with a pay raise for teachers
Consent searches
Is this the end for the Astrodome Hotel?
No red light cameras yet for Alamo Heights
You know where you can stick your amendments
Budget battles today
Voter ID bills pass out of committee
Supreme Court agrees to hear Jones' appeal
Reminder: Town hall meeting with Rep. Ellen Cohen
More wind over wind farms
Business tax revenue projected to fall short
TYC: Kimbrough now conservator
Voter ID bill in committee today
Ray Jones appeals to Supreme Court
The "Bill Ceverha Bill" passes out of the Senate
Another downtown tower
MLB and DirecTV
Red light cameras fully enabled in Balcones Heights
Two more things about Medicaid
TYC: On reviewing sentences
Lampson update
The BlackBerry Defense
Danno TV
Won't you be my forever stamp?
Justice For Laura Candlelight Vigil
Ed Brandon announces his retirement
Let the tubing season begin!
Get well soon, Rep. Lampson
TYC: Reform bills to come tomorrow
Old Sixth Ward wins preservation award
The NBA draft lottery
To toll or not to toll
Ratliff: Change how we rate schools
Global warming in the Lege
Reminder about Metro town hall meetings
How to run the Final Four
This ain't your daddy's Pasadena
Houston Bloggers Pub
Open document formats for Texas
With former friends like these...
Downtown construction photos
Been waitin' on the bus all day
COPA struck down again
TDP town hall in the Valley
TYC: Alfonso Royal and email retention
TYC superintendant arrested
Woodland Heights home tour this weekend
TYC: Another "correction" from Perry's office
Friday random ten: The next playlist
Richie to Cornyn: Recuse yourself
To override or not to override
An update on a longstanding Heights development story
No indictments in TYC cases yet
Carona puts the brakes on toll road moratorium
Elizabeth Edwards
Jones' petition denied
All that needs to be said about Tom DeLay's comeback tour
Town hall meeting on education with Rep. Cohen
Two words I didn't expect to hear this time around: Special session
Jones responds back
RIP, Charles Harrison
First draft of the budget passes out of committee
Looks like Orlando will escape the legislative axe
TYC: What did Perry's people know?
Red light camera ban bill to be heard today
The do-nothing prosecutor
What happened to HB478?
Preservation isn't just about buildings
Jones and Morales
TTC moratorium is veto-proof
TYC: You can't quit just yet
Thanks, Bob
Robinson Warehouse - The grassy knolls
Melissa Noriega campaign headquarters opening this Saturday
Jerk!
Funding pro-transit candidates
The politics of the Saint Patrick's Day Parade
The LSG evaluates the CHIP bill
On qualifying for the ballot
Interview with Noel Freeman
Arabia Shrine Center to be sold
The Worst NCAA Division I Mascots
What hath the warrant roundup wrought?
The "Healthy Marriage Initiative"
39 << 100
Face time
Time for a task force
More silliness in Farmer's Branch
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
The TYC "czar"
No more teams for San Antonio?
Tom DeLay's book
RIP, Bowie Kuhn
On the radio again tonight
An answer to Dewhurst on voter ID
"Houston area"
More on Ray Jones' ballot suit
TYC: The feds may get involved
CHIPs and scraps
Perry speaks to Texas Monthly
What if the dinosaurs had survived?
Easing up on the tubers
The blogging judges
More on the voter ID bill
Why some made the ballot and others didn't, continued
Voter ID bills appear to be dead for this session
Statewide smoking ban update
The "logic" behind Jessica's Law
Voters reject tax decrease
Bye-bye, TYC board
When you've lost Cornyn...
Interview with David Goldberg
"Hand counted paper ballot" bill filed
Blood has been given
What will the Medicaid ruling cost Texas?
Mayor White wins award for Katrina work
Accenture contract officially dead
More on Abbott's HPV opinion
Today's TYC roundup
Give TCEQ the right tools for the job
Why some made the ballot and others didn't
The Mobility Corps
Connecting Uptown to Downtown
Abbott says Perry's HPV order "does not carry the weight of law"
Putting lipstick on a catcher
Interview with Roy Morales
Ron Paul is off and running for President
Sixty down, eighty to go
John Belushi
Warrant roundup draws to a close
It all comes back to redistricting
A recent history of the TYC
Meetings scheduled for University Corridor
Bohemian hippie attorney development update
More voices against "Jessica's Law"
Are you ready to spring forward?
TYC update: Hiring felons, and AG indifference
Mayor's air cleanup plan scaled back and under attack
A brief profile of some Council candidates
In politics, as in the comics, no one is ever truly dead
Looks like half a loaf for CHIP
It's not just the youth facilities
Texas Ranger testimony on TYC
Toll road moratorium
Perry pushes cancer research fund
Demolition moratorium in Old Sixth Ward
Senate readies gambling expansion bills
This time we mean it: Council special election lineup really, truly set
GLBT Caucus endorses Noriega
Woolley files bill to protect stem cell research
Roy Morales will be on the ballot
The field is (maybe) set for May
Area mayors complain about White's environment plan
Possibly the last thing I'll say about Ed Emmett for awhile
A little do-gooding
Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty
Reactions to "Jessica's Law" passage
Renovate the Alamo!
The Ed Era begins
A radio blast from the past
Perry declares TYC an emergency
The "Bill Ceverha Bill"
Wal-Mart versus the knitters
Wrong way driving
The amended Jessica's Law
For whom the door revolves
Interview with Andy Neill
Jessica's Law and sales price disclosure
Updating the River Walk
And now the bad preservation news
Tulia: The Movie
John Edwards to visit San Antonio
A few thoughts about density
Microbrewery Free Trade Bill filed
Redistricting symposium
One more article about Culberson's town hall meeting
Casey on Davis and CHIP
So long for now to Autry Court
Are you ready for Ed?
The cronyism never stops
"Speed of lightning, roar of thunder..."
No Council redistricting till 2010
TYC roundup
Say "Bye-bye, Bob" on Tuesday
Friday random eleven
Bill filed to prevent future annexation of The Woodlands
Council approves WiFi contract
Tax breaks for historic buildings moves forward
More CHIP resistance
"Jessica's Law" tabled till Monday
What does Kos know about TX-Sen?
How I feel about the state of the comics page today
What's in a misspelled name?
Saving DNA evidence
Davis supports easing CHIP requirements
Meet Houston Pavilions
A quick plug for donating blood
La Nina is not our amiga
Prevention First
Matthews gets three years
Salvaging my lost music
Cooler lovers fight back in New Braunfels
More on Woodfill and Eckels
Hold that demolition, for now
On using funds as they were dedicated
Woodfill wants to pick Eckels' successor
Houston Pavilions groundbreaking today
King versus Kenedy over wind farms
WiFi for all
Fifty years of "The Cat In The Hat"
Help for the bungalows?
The TXU deal
Kubosh prepares to sue
More red light camera legislation
Interview with Melissa Noriega
Danno versus TAB
The Sugar Land option for the Dynamo
Toll lanes coming for SH-288
Of molehills and mountains
Springing forward sooner
Scratch-off ripoff
State auditor criticizes Trans Texas Corridor
More reactions to the Culberson town hall meeting
Estimating the cost of "Jessica's Law"
"But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane"
Perry sued over HPV order
"Bad housekeeping"
Rowdy rail gathering
Last word on Old Spanish Trail
Making pharmacists fib
Rent to own, Lege-style
Meet Rep. Rick Noriega
CHIP Day - March 1
Pay or play
Want to ask the candidates a question?
The budget bungle
More on the TXU ruling
Exploring the Neartown options
Will Eckels' departure be a twofer?
Gus Wortham: Still for golf
So long, spending cap
Neartown Association endorses Cummins route for Universities line
Leave a "Get Well" message for Debra Danburg
Craig Watkins
Bill to extend early voting filed
One, two, three, what are we selling the Lottery for?
Dedicating the sporting goods tax
City WiFi on the agenda
Perry's TXU order shot down
HB2: Property tax cuts uber alles
Eckels: It was all about me
How do you TiVo?
Get well soon, Debra Danburg
Still more on Old Spanish Trail
Onion Creek goes smokefree
City Council redistricting: Back on the agenda?
This is not your father's Fort Bend County
Dynamo Stadium: Not on the golf course
Forty-one
Is that a Bigfoot foot?
NCAA to change clock rules again
Once more with toll road math
Why 21?
The other Walter Reed
Our deadly jails
Chisum apologizes, but still doesn't get it
A back door to more gambling?
Pay your fines or go to jail
Eckels: "Who cares what you think?"
At home with Audrey
TAB comes out against immigrant bashing
House committee follows Senate's example
Friday random ten
Warren Chisum: Man of nonsense
Some details about the city Wi-Fi rollout
Red light camera study in Philadelphia
Eckels says "So long, suckers"
Eckels to tell us what he wants to be when he grows up today
Senate votes to exceed spending cap
Comets promote Thompson to replace Chancellor
Cooler restrictions passed in New Braunfels
News flash: People still like the greenback
Same phony attack, new location
Loud and clear, the people say "Support public schools!"
CPPP urges Abbott to rule against Perry
Like father, like son
Eckels to give State of the County address
Earthlink wins city WiFi contract
Under the bili lights
Slow down the coal plant fast track
Shoot! Shoot!
The most endangered historic places of 2007
Will the spending cap be punted to the voters?
A quick update on Old Spanish Trail
Metro responds to North Line complaints
Charges against Scheffey dropped
Some transportation-related items
Olivia meets Audrey
Announcing Audrey Elizabeth
RIP, Eddie Feigner
Lobbyist connections: Not just for vaccine orders!
West 11th Street Park still not out of the woods
What he said
Another bill to stop red light cameras filed
North line complaints
Spend a Saturday with the Noriegas in Fort Bend
What does the Constitution say?
Heck of a job, Albert
Pretty much all you need to know about the Lottery selloff plan
Edwards stands up
Voucherpalooza
McCown on the HPV order
FTA funding for Metro
Autry Court v2.0
Dynamo Stadium?
Texans blogger needed
Would you buy that?
If you want me to vote for you, here's what you've got to do
Gentrification watch: Houston Avenue
Supporting Richmond Rail the practical way
Abbott sues Sprint
Wind energy followup, and geothermal leases
Where were you in 2005, Jane?
The state of the state 2007
Perry's needle problem: Day Three
City wins strip club lawsuit
Garnet Coleman gets on board the podcast train
Wind farms
What are the odds for Barry Bonds?
Property values up, crime down in Farmer's Branch
Red light camera collections: Better than first reported
More pushback on Perry's vaccine order
Robinson Warehouse - The hole is bigger than I thought
Rail options at UH
You may already be the Super Bowl champion
The Allen House effect
Bradford for Sheriff?
The time to start supporting John Cornyn's opponent is now
Not the kind of article I need to be reading right about now
K-Fed apologizes to fast food workers
Perry's vaccination order
As The Island Floats
TxDOT's lobby money
Privatize the lottery?
The battle is joined in District I
The inmates are running the prisons
Enron Broadband convictions tossed
Richard Raymond's video blog
Last Harry Potter book due July 21
Eckels contemplates resignation
Help the Beer Can House
Mayor proposes preservation ordinance for Old Sixth Ward
The NYT's appropriate obit for Molly Ivins
Compromise looming on 60-day rule
A more pointed response regarding Richmond rail
Sale of Comets completed
Ellis to present statewide smoking ban measure today
More treatment, fewer prisons
RIP, Molly Ivins
NASA chief rebuked for DeLay endorsement
Metro's HOV crackdown
Campaign kickoff event for Melissa Noriega
"For Better or For Worse", but not for much longer
Sprint says "Switch"
Danno makes his choice
Resolution to vote on bills early fails
From the "Things I Wish Were True But Aren't" Department
You can sort of still smoke 'em in Bellaire
In which I vent about Old Spanish Trail
Teacherblogging
"Bohemians, attorneys, and hippies"
Just say "No" to Tom Craddick
Rebate this!
The business tax needs to be fixed already
Point/not-quite-counterpoint on rail
Talking about taking the train to Galveston
Means and ends
New frontiers in caffeine
What is HCTRA up to?
Would you like fries with that, K-Fed?
You may or may not already be late
Molly Ivins back in the hospital
WNBA to approve Comets sale
Residents want West Alabama put back the way it was
GLBT Caucus view of the Council candidates
Committee assignments are out
System overview and downtown BRT
And more red light cameras have been installed
No committees yet
How much do you like beer?
Abbott says no death penalty for illegal abortions
Austin citizenship drive
Dewhurst's misplaced priorities
Arguments before the CCA in the DeLay case
Film screening on Texas parks
Get ready to say goodbye to Allen House
Drink 'em if you got 'em
Janette Sexton
The blogger/journalist thing
Here's a budget priority for you
CCA will hear final DeLay appeals today
Appraisal caps no, revenue caps yes
Preservation in River Oaks
More New Braunfels tubing rules
Lightning!
The state of the city speech
Farmer's Branch tries again
The Stables: Gone but not (yet) forgotten
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
You don't want fries with that?
Birthday party wars
The Lege wants to cure cancer
New dollar coin set to arrive in Houston this week
The state of the city 2007
Gallegos receives liver transplant
Astroworld site update
Another story on casino gambling in Texas
Who will replace Bud?
Farmer's Branch backs down
Microsoft comes to San Antonio
Smoking bans make headway nationwide
Hillary!
Bye-bye, Cassidy & Associates
Eleven minus one
Next on the endangered buildings list: The Arabia Shrine Center
So long, Stables
How can we miss you if you won't go away?
Rice finds a new coach
Council filings: Morales is in
Media fight!
Roll 'em if you got 'em
Border mayors say "NO!" to the fence
Revisiting the end of "Lost"
The Guv and The Nuge
Special election called for May 12
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Sklar on Paul's presidential run
Get yer committee assignments here
On red lights and yellow lights
You can still smoke 'em in Bellaire
O'Day wins HD29 runoff
Perry's bipartisanship, take two
Slippery when icy
Thomas Grasso
Summer Williams
The road home (I hope)
Cellphone surcharges
Craddick's leadership shuffle
Red light cameras come to Bexar County
Round and round we go
Tag!
Little Hip's
Welcome to Beertown
Perry defends HB1403
Hoffman: Objectively pro-gambling
Score one for Juan Garcia - almost
"Pancake Mountain"
Bloggers in the House
Gallegos needs liver transplant
That pesky spending cap
Todd Graham goes back to Tulsa
Ron Paul for President
Six Flags to sell Splashtown
Murcer's tumor was malignant
Triggering
Radack v. Sanchez
Bob Perry donates to the West 11th Street Park effort
It's official: We will have an election to replace Shelley
A few things about my iPod
Robinson Warehouse - Clearing debris
"They paved paradise"
Mario Gallegos
On the bright side
Time to start making lemonade
Kids' music
Email from beyond the grave
EarthLink to do San Francisco's WiFi
City buys West 11th Street Park
The reason why parents get gray hairs
Dunnam statement on Speaker's race
Craddick wins
Dan Patrick: One of a kind
And they're off and stalling
Hall of Fame vote is today
Koufax nominations for 2006 are now open
Today we'll have a Speaker
YouTubing the Old Sixth Ward
The Kirby construction mural
YouTubing the Speaker's race
Why do (dead) birds suddenly appear/Every time you are near?
Combs' first revenue estimate expected today
The first sign of a successful program: Coach poaching
Selling magazines
CD death watch: Car stereos
Another Cisneros in San Antonio politics
Why the Speaker's race matters
Is this the end for the Harris County Treasurer's office?
How about that Houston housing market?
What kind of vote for Speaker will there be?
Debating red light cameras
Northcross moratorium broken
Lampson's return to Congress
Burnam files complaint against Craddick
Pitts and McCall, McCall and Pitts
Robinson Warehouse - ...Gone
Waiter!
No new appraisal caps?

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Eri Yoshida
Please listen to Hank
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From the "How fleeting is fame?" department
The Astros and Barry
RIP, Bobby Murcer
The names may change, but the stories remain the same
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Baseball and instant replay
The rarest play in baseball
As the Rocket turns
Baseball for Sugar Land?
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Bill James speaks
A new leader for the Hall of Fame
Bill James speaks
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Donnie Baseball's tribulations
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Et tu, Debbie?
CSI: MLB
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Pettite and Clemens
Oh, those performance enhancers
Roger and Miguel
Goooooooooooose!
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Clemens and the coaches
Clemens and Bonds
The Mitchell Report
Bowie Kuhn?
The Hall of Fame ballot for 2008
More baseball pandering from Rudy
Bonds indicted
Instant replay for baseball?
No more Wahoo
Astros retain Cooper
The ghosts of Flatbush
Wading in
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Potato!
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Astros can Purpura and Garner
Thirty!
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RIP, Phil Rizzuto
Seven fifty-six
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Astros punt on Ensberg
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Mark Cuban and the Cubs
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Biggio 3000
MLB celebrates the Army's birthday
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Barry vs the Hall
Aaron and Bonds
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Barry and the Babe revisited
Roger Clemens signs with the Yankees
Finding #755
Jackie Robinson
Throws right and left
MLB returns to InDemand cable
Ah, opening day
MLB and DirecTV
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Who will replace Bud?
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Credit card reform
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Steffy runs against the wind
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Mackey apologizes, but doesn't quite get it
Sock puppets and the people who love them
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RIP, Debutant
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Texas blog roundup for the week of February 2
Weekend link dump for February 1
Blogging for "Houston Have Your Say 2.0"
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 26
Weekend link dump for January 25
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 19
As The Court Turns
Weekend link dump for January 18
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 12
Weekend link dump for January 11
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 6
Weekend link dump for January 4
End of the year Texas blog roundup
Weekend link dump for December 28
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 22
Weekend link dump for December 21
Toys for Tots
Meet your blogger
Commit for Life blog
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 15
Weekend link dump for December 14
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 8
Weekend link dump for December 7
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 1
Weekend link dump for November 30
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 24
Weekend link dump for November 23
The fight goes on for Debutant
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 17
Weekend link dump for November 16
Help a blogger out
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 10
Weekend link dump for November 9
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 3
Weekend link dump for November 2
Me on your teevee on Tuesday
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 27
Weekend link dump for October 26
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 20
Weekend link dump for October 19
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 13
Weekend link dump for October 12
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 6
Weekend link dump for October 5
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 29
Weekend link dump for September 28
"Best of Houston" 2008
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 22
Weekend link dump for September 21
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 15
Weekend link dump for September 14
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 8
Weekend link dump for September 7
Discounted tickets for Kos event
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 1
Weekend link dump for August 30
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 25
Weekend link dump for August 23
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 18
Weekend link dump for August 16
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 11
Weekend link dump for August 9
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 4
Weekend link dump for August 2
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 28
Weekend link dump for July 26
"Money should NEVER stand in the way of health care"
Kos comes to Houston
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 21
A few random thoughts on my trip to Netroots Nation
Weekend link dump for July 19
And the special mystery guest is...
Netroots Nation, day 3
The other conventions
Netroots Nation, day 2
Midafternoon update, and more me in the media
Media coverage of Netroots Nation
I have arrived at Netroots Nation
Texas Freedom Network blogging
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 14
Texans Against Hunger
Weekend link dump for July 12
HouStoned is becoming Hair Balls
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 7
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 30
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 23
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 16
Today's blog news today
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 9
My pics from the Bloggers Caucus
Blogger caucus a big success
Blogger caucus tonight!
Reminder: Blogger bash Thursday night in Austin
Texas blog roundup for the week of June 2
"The Sanctuary"
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 27
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 19
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 12
We're all newbies next to Christine
Texas blog roundup for the week of May 5
The DMN blogs city hall
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 28
New digs for the Profs
BOR turns five
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 21
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 14
RIP, PinkDome
Death by blogging
Texas blog roundup for the week of April 7
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 31
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 24
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 17
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 10
So long, Professors
Texas blog roundup for the week of March 3
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 25
Doctor Murray, I presume
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 18
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 11
Texas blog roundup for the week of February 4
New home for the Newswatch blog
Got something to say to me?
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 28
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 21
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 14
Texas blog roundup for the week of January 7
Texas Progressive Alliance end-of-year roundup
Texan of the Year for 2007
TPA Gold Stars: Mario Gallegos
TPA Gold Stars: Molly Ivins
TPA Gold Stars: Denise Davis
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 10
Gold stars for the Noriegas
Texas Progressive Alliance Silver Stars
Texas blog roundup for the week of December 3
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 26
A little love from the DMN
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 19
The Chief Blogger debuts
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 12
Texas blog roundup for the week of November 5
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 29
The Chief blogger
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 22
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 15
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 8
Texas blog roundup for the week of October 1
Swamplot
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 24
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 17
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 10
In the Pink Texas Monthly
Que Quechup?
HFD Intern blogging
Texas blog roundup for the week of September 3
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 20
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 13
Texas blog roundup for the week of August 7
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 30
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 23
On the record with me
Texas blog roundup for the week of July 16
Classroom blogging
Giving bloggers credit
OK, we get it - you don't like it
NYT obituary for Steve Gilliard
RIP, Steve Gilliard
True Courage Awards
The strangest press release I've ever gotten
Can you read me now?
I accept your offer
Houston Bloggers Pub
The blogging judges
Texans blogger needed
Garnet Coleman gets on board the podcast train
As The Island Floats
Richard Raymond's video blog
Teacherblogging
The blogger/journalist thing
Koufax nominations for 2006 are now open


Books (25)
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
RIP-to-be: Opus the penguin
"The Strangerer"
And so we come to the end...
Kos comes to Houston
The book was different
Judy Norsigian in town
Houston. It's Worth It: The Book
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
Dumbledore comes out
Watterson on Schulz
Books by people I know
Stephen King and Harry Potter
JK Rowling's new gig
Fifteen geek novels to read before you die
It is finished
Spoiler shields still up
Spoiler alert level: High
Harry Potter hacked?
The Harry Potter Experience
How unromantic
What if Harry Potter was a black kid?
A chat with Berke Breathed
Fifty years of "The Cat In The Hat"
Last Harry Potter book due July 21


Budget ballyhoo (214)
Budget heads to the Governor
CHIP dies again
Unemployment insurance dies, CHIP lives
Budget yes, UI not yet
Ogden stem cell rider removed from budget
The fees not paid
Another win for CHIP
Poker bill dies
More unemployment funds available
School finance bill advances
Is there a Medicaid issue or not?
Scaling back steroid testing in the schools
Watch out for Medicaid
Tuition reregulation passes the Senate
CHIP and Medicaid advance
Get ready for the next school funding lawsuit
House committee passes SB1569
House budget conferees announced
More Tier I schools
Perry's ongoing war on the unemployed
Where the stimulus funds are going
Senate passes SB1569, but may not be able to override a veto
House passes budget, slaps Perry
Stem cells and the budget battle
Funding the state cancer research initiative
Senate approves stimulus funds for unemployment insurance
Extending Medicaid
Doing the easy part
UI update
Oh by the way, the unemployment trust fund is going broke
House panel passes its budget
Senate passes budget
Senate committee passes unemployment insurance reform
Senate panel approves budget
Response from the racetracks
Red light camera revenues unspent
Ogden's stem cell skulduggery
How much money would expanded gambling generate?
Property values declining
"What's Medicaid?"
Coleman pushing for CHIP restoration
Planning the workaround
More on the end of the sixty-five percent rule
Parker versus Perry
Lege versus Gov on unemployment funds
Once more with the stimulus and unemployment insurance
Money for movies
Two stories about gambling
Here comes stimulus money
The stimulus and the budget
Reason #437 why I'm skeptical of the gambling industry
They paid their taxes, too
Will we or won't we fix unemployment insurance?
Gambling poll
Sixty-five percent of nothing
Stimulus for the schools
So about those stimulus funds
Tough times for local governments
Senate committees
It's 2009 and we're still arguing about CHIP
Beware Lt. Govs bearing gifts
We have the beginnings of a budget
When you look up "short-sighted" in the dictionary, this will be cited as an example
There are still a few Republican grownups left
Hey, there's an idea!
Don't forget Frew
Does it look like it's raining to you?
That sound you hear is state revenues falling
Gambling and Speaker Straus
The sales tax slowdown
Where the business margins tax money came from
College issues
The gas tax
School finance: Sorta kinda important to the Lege
Economy affecting school bonds
Accenture, Texas finalize divorce
There is no surplus
Business tax: Still short
Moratorium on power cutoffs urged
HISD settles with comptroller
It sucks to be a school district
More flagships
A billion short
The tax that dare not speak its name
TIERS for Medicaid
College tuition, the continuing story
Business tax revenues falling short of projections
Dan Patrick wants to raise your taxes
The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem
Casey on the appraisal problem
HISD versus HCAD
Coming attractions on the business tax
Talking tuition
From the "Dance with them what brung you" files
Don't talk about tuition!
The answer is staring you in the face
More TIERS coming
Business tax turmoil
More financial gloom from the school districts
High oil prices are good for Texas
School districts predict financial disaster in their futures
When all else fails, create a task force
Twelve-month re-ups the hard way
The DMN writes about the HHSC
"Privatization failure is taxpayers' burden"
TIERS and problems go hand in hand
HISD becomes a rich district
Time for another S-CHIP veto override effort
The CPPP explains (again!) why Phil King's sales tax swap is a bad idea
HHSC Employee back in the blogging saddle
And in other news, Governor Perry's property tax cut claims are still phony
Cornyn defends his anti-CHIP votes
The anti-business tax sentiment
Know your HHSC contractors
TIERS: Still bad
Lawmakers want agency ad dollars audited
KBH weasels on S-CHIP
Community college funding finally fixed
CHIP veto upheld
S-CHIP day
KBH to vote for S-CHIP veto override
Coleman to Abbott: File suit over CHIP
Abstinence education funding cuts coming
Comptroller blinks in dispute against HCAD
Kay Granger targeted for S-CHIP override vote
CPPP statement to Cornyn on S-CHIP
Will the S-CHIP veto be overridden?
S-CHIP vetoed
Senate passes S-CHIP
S-CHIP bill passes the House, but not by enough
S-CHIP vote in the House today
Those damn call centers again
S-CHIP is back
Is Rube Goldberg in the house?
Community college leaders to state: Hurry up!
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to hire Accenture again
Reversal of community college funding veto?
S-CHIP: The Republican cookie crumbles
Take action on S-CHIP
Cigarette sales down for now
Frew settlement okayed by judge
More pension deal details
Dyslexia
Accenture may be gone, but privatization lingers
Budget passes
Talton the Torpedo strikes
Oh, yeah, the budget, too
CHIP deal reached
The CHIP endgame
Budget deal reached
Senate passes CHIP bill
Dewhurst: Senate will pass CHIP bill today
CHIP expansion finally nearing
Watch out for shifting taxes
CHIP administrative issues
Dewhurst finally sees the light on CHIP
"Budgets are moral documents"
The circle of life in Lobbyist Land
System benefit fund advances
TSEU on TIERS and HHSC
Combs rescinds Strayhorn's question about the business tax
HHSC response to OIG report
Cigarette run!
Fund CHIP fully or lose money
TIERS for Albert Hawkins
CLOUT can sue after all
Time for the real sausagemaking to begin
"I've got a list"
Senate debates the budget
Dewhurst and CHIP
More on the Senate budget
Did we put too much aside for Frew?
Frew settlement
No deal yet in Frew lawsuit
Talton 2, Turner 0
It wasn't all Accenture's fault
Budget moves forward with a pay raise for teachers
You know where you can stick your amendments
Budget battles today
Business tax revenue projected to fall short
Two more things about Medicaid
First draft of the budget passes out of committee
The LSG evaluates the CHIP bill
CHIPs and scraps
What will the Medicaid ruling cost Texas?
Accenture contract officially dead
Looks like half a loaf for CHIP
More CHIP resistance
Davis supports easing CHIP requirements
On using funds as they were dedicated
"Bad housekeeping"
The budget bungle
So long, spending cap
HB2: Property tax cuts uber alles
House committee follows Senate's example
Senate votes to exceed spending cap
Loud and clear, the people say "Support public schools!"
Will the spending cap be punted to the voters?
Heck of a job, Albert
Abbott sues Sprint
Sprint says "Switch"
Rebate this!
The business tax needs to be fixed already
Means and ends
Dewhurst's misplaced priorities
Here's a budget priority for you
Appraisal caps no, revenue caps yes
Another story on casino gambling in Texas
Roll 'em if you got 'em
Hoffman: Objectively pro-gambling
That pesky spending cap
Combs' first revenue estimate expected today
How about that Houston housing market?
No new appraisal caps?


Crime and Punishment (245)
Burnam drops impeachment resolution
Still talking about a new jail
"Just do the test"
Mattress Mack is watching you
You there! Put down the Internet and slowly back away!
Two for Timothy Cole
A response from TAASA to the rape kits story
Senate rejects Shanda Perkins
HPOU wants to get into the immigration business
Paying for rape kits
Updates on some criminal justice bills
Garcia's plan to fix the jails
Can't wait to see the transcript of this one
Burnam makes his case in the papers
Followup on the Keller impeachment resolution
Crimes against goats
The Keller impeachment resolution
Sanctions sought for deadline-missing attorney
Tweet it! The cops!
Videotaping interrogations
House hearing set on Keller impeachment resolution
You sure you can afford that attorney?
Either way, they still get paid
Matt Baker indicted
Sexting and the law
Won't somebody please think of the mollusks?
Keller's day in court set for August
There's always an excuse to not do it
TPJ files complaints against Keller
Innocence, exoneration, and compensation
What else have you not told us, Sharon?
Regional crime lab
You have the right to an attorney, but it doesn't have to be of your choosing
Your eyes may deceive you
Keller blames others for her actions
Missing deadlines in capital cases
On DNA testing and innocence
NYT on Keller
Let's see those files
Blow before you drive
The Riddler goes on a rampage
Keller gets an extension
The case against Keller
Why does Governor Perry hate sex toys?
CSI: Needs Improvement
Judicial conduct commission moves against Keller
All DNA, all the time
Burnam files resolution to impeach Justice Keller
"Highway piracy"
Exonerating the deceased
Heights crime prevention townhall report
Report: Most elected officials refuse to contribute to their own prosecution
Crime prevention townhall meeting
Innocence
Swearingen gets a stay
Harris County tackles jail overcrowding
More on Larry Swearingen
How many wrongly convicted people are there in prison?
National ban on phoning while driving urged
Prison reform
The state of Texas is about to execute an innocent man
RIP, Sharon Levine
Texas Voices gets an ally
The Madoff scandal and the Innocence Project
The unthreatening sex offender next door
Chuck walks
Cheney indictments tossed
Pounding the table
Where's the DA?
More on the Cheney indictment
Cheney, Gonzalez indicted in South Texas
He's guilty
Virginia anti-spam law struck down
The DA that did the judge
Candidates speak on mental health and criminal justice issues
Pistol-packing DAs
Forensic Science commission recommends examination of capital arson case
The great sex toy disappearance
The legacy of Henry Wade
Still not safe for sex toys
New jail bond to miss the November election
The costs and effects of mass imprisonment
The jails and the mentally ill
Commissioners Court to try, try again
Policing the jailers
Pee in a cup, go to jail
The Feds inspect the jails
Jackson Lee wants hearings on Harris County criminal justice
Them that has the gold gets the patrols
New DNA tests for Darlie Routier
Commissioners Court presses forward with scaled-down jail plan
The definition of insanity, Harris County style
Running prosecutors
No Galveston jail for Harris County
No excuses for CPS
Supreme Court upholds FLDS ruling
Sheriff still hasn't learned his lesson about deleting emails
Court thwacks CPS over FLDS raid
Is the death penalty declining in Texas?
Quintero's lawyer speaks
DA probes Sheriff's surveillance of Ibarra brothers
Not so minor after all
Mrs. Medina pleads not guilty
The cost of the FLDS case
The Rosenthal investigation
Let's get serious about innocence
Kelly Siegler resigns
The Chron on jail overcrowding
The Galveston option
The real fix for the jail overcrowding blues
Abbott makes hash of needle-exchange program
The jail overcrowding blues, part whatever
The next frontier for innocence
Mrs. Medina released on bail
The Texas Justice Newsladder
Medina grand jury reconvenes, indicts wife
A cozy little family in juvenile court
The state prison guard shortage
For a public defender's office
Interview with Craig Watkins
Public defender's office gets OK to be studied
The high cost of getting tuff on crime
Commissioners Court to study public defenders office
Whitmire: Abolish the TYC
The jail chronicles
Rusty Yates has a new son
The new DA's new direction?
More on a public defender's office for Harris County
Harris County juvenile facilities criticized
Magidson makes his mark
You have the right to an attorney, just not right now
Sen. Ellis calls for a public defender's office
More jail deaths
Feds investigating Harris County jails
Who should investigate Chuck?
Defense attorneys want new DA named
Support resolutions to reform youth and adult corrections
Now the world really is safe for sex toys
Back to court, Chuck
Coleman's conviction upheld
Grits talks criminal justice with Texas Monthly
Medina grand jurors want to keep the ball rolling
Medina grand jury disbanded, judge criticizes DA
Tough times in the DA's office
The lawyer versus the jurors
Two more views of Rosenthal
Complaining about the grand jury
More on Medina and Rosenthal
David Medina indicted by grand jury for arson
Rosenthal's judgment
What happened to all those cases?
"Let's not make a deal", Rosenthal style
SCOTUS to review "Jessica's Law"
The top ten criminal justice stories from 2007
Keller violated court policies
Vick gets 23 months
Why we didn't need that jail bond
Stop Sharon Keller rally this Friday
Chron slaps Keller again
CCA to accept email filings
The economics of plea bargaining
Crime lab cases being reviewed
Harris County DA holds off on death penalty cases
Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Exonerating the Innocent
E-filing execution appeals
Crime lab review panel begins its work
"A shame, and a surprise"
Still more complaints filed against Keller
"Views divided" (sort of) on Keller
Chron: Keller must go
DPS owed $620 million in unpaid surcharges
Panel to review HPD crime lab cases
Another complaint to be filed against Keller
Complaint filed against Keller over death penalty appeal
AG opinion sought in Bexar needle exchange pilot
Freed after 14 years
If only there were some way to track where it went
More charges for Vick
How many innocent "guilty" people are there?
OJ busted for stealing his own memorabilia
TYC retrospective
For want of an attorney
Is it a surcharge if no one pays it?
Where are the anti-death penalty candidates?
TYC still outsourcing custody of 10-13 year olds
Vick suspended indefinitely
The warped lock-em-up mentality
Vick takes a plea
Special master for HPD crime lab urged again
Oyster-related crime is on the rise in Texas
Two more Vick codefendants to plead out
The cost
On supporting Michael Vick
Backroom gambling in Houston
Bexar DA rains on needle exchange pilot
By the way, the TYC is still broken
What "innocent till proven guilty" really means
Pilot needle exchange program gets underway in San Antonio
Are you wanted by the police?
TYC outsourcing custody of 10-13 year olds
More on inmate outsourcing
Outsourcing inmates
Don't mess with Borris
Houston Crime: On the Uptick ... Still
Teen's death brings about attention for hate crime bill
A tale of two cities (and their police departments)
Time flies like an arrow
We still need a special master for the crime lab
Dyslexia and crime
A way forward for the HPD Crime Lab
Right message, wrong messenger
The final HPD lab report
Innocence matters
What was finally done about the TYC?
Causation, correlation, and car burglaries
False alarm clampdown contemplated
Fox versus Crosby conclusion
Fox versus Crosby update
Fox versus Crosby
And speaking of cameras
On second chances
More on the DMN's death penalty change of heart
Chron covers the prison guard shortage
DMN: No more death penalty in Texas
Diane Zamora revisited
Harris County jails: Deadlier than ever
Justice for Laura Candlelight Vigil reminder
Shaquanda Cotton
Consent searches
Justice For Laura Candlelight Vigil
RIP, Charles Harrison
What hath the warrant roundup wrought?
Warrant roundup draws to a close
Tulia: The Movie
TYC roundup
Saving DNA evidence
Matthews gets three years
Estimating the cost of "Jessica's Law"
Craig Watkins
Our deadly jails
Pay your fines or go to jail
The inmates are running the prisons
More treatment, fewer prisons
Thomas Grasso


Election 2002 (1)
Five years ago


Election 2006 (4)
IRS complaint filed against Perry-backing foundation
"No ducking truth behind Perry's gift"
NASA chief rebuked for DeLay endorsement
Janette Sexton


Election 2007 (231)
The Riddler goes on a rampage
AG to approve HISD bond money
Another win for HISD in bond lawsuits
Motion to overturn bond validation lawsuit
Burka and Kennedy on Barrett's win
Barrett Wins! Republican Leadership Rejected
A House Pick-Up On Tuesday?
The successful Caucus
Still one election to go
What's a bond validation lawsuit?
Jones, Adams, Sullivan, and Galloway win runoffs
Runoff day is today for Council and HISD
Early voting ends today for Council/HISD runoffs
Statement from Annette Dwyer on District E runoff
Statement from Michael Sullivan on District E runoff
Endorsement watch: Runoff edition
Statement from Jolanda Jones on At Large #5 runoff
Statement from Joe Trevino on At Large #5 runoff
Statement from Lawrence Allen on District D runoff
Statement from Wanda Adams on District D runoff
HISD Trustee runoff overview
Early voting starts today for city election runoffs
District D runoff overview
Runoff overviews: District E, At Large 5
TLCV endorses Dan Barrett
Dan Barrett gets ParentPAC endorsement
Wrapup roundup
Prop 15 not so popular in Travis County
Why was Sue Lovell's race so close?
Why did the jail bond lose?
Prediction review
Uncle Dan wins!
Results wrapup
Late night early results
The Bill White line
Vote!
Open predictions thread
"Minor challenger"
Mayor White endorses HISD bond referendum
Bonds or tax cuts?
Endorsement watch: Vote for 'em all!
One more look at the early vote
Endorsement watch: Those other bonds
Perry predicts Prop 15 passage
Last day to vote early
Endorsement watch: One bond
Referendum Roundup
"A low turnout affair"
Endorsement watch: Mayor White and the HISD bond referendum
Endorsement watch: HCCS trustees
The HISD bond opposition makes its case
Early voting: Week two
Endorsement watch: RichmondRail.org
Endorsement watch: The HISD bond referendum
Prop 15 opposition ramps up
Urban League endorses HISD bond
Doing the referendum shuffle
Bonds here, bonds there
Interview with Paula Harris
Bush 41 endorses Prop 15
The HISD District 2 trustee overview
Proposition 4
Early voting Google map
The Pearland anti-smoking referendum
The Mayoral race
Saavedra speaks
Early voting begins today
The HCC trustee races
Endorsement watch: Mayor White
The District I overview
Houston Votes Kick-off Voter Registration Training
Who endorses you, baby?
The HISD District 4 overview
ACORN endorses HISD bond referendum
The District B overview
Candidates and back taxes
The District E overview
The At Large #5 overview
What did Saavedra promise to the unions?
Harris County GOP: We're not pro-cancer!
Port bonds
Those other bonds
Wheatley
Endorsement watch: Five for City Council
Endorsement watch: More officeholders for the bonds
Endorsement watch: Prop 15
Armstrong to campaign for Prop 15
Council campaign cash, 30 days out
Interview with Kevin Hoffman
The District D overview
Endorsement watch: Districts B and C
HISD and union support
Interview with Will Williams
Dan Barrett for HD97
District C overview
Bundling jail bonds
TMO will not support the HISD bond referendum
Have you registered to vote?
Interview with Reginald Adams
AFL-CIO endorses HISD bond proposal
Turnout and Prop 15
The HISD bond opposition organizes
Endorsement watch: Edwards for Adams, HPOU for Sullivan
Greater Houston Partnership endorses HISD bond proposal
Interview with Annette Dwyer
A look at At Large #2
Interview with Jolanda Jones
Interview with Wanda Adams
Proposition 11: Recorded votes
LULAC endorses HISD bond proposal
At Large #3, take three
More on the Hispanic Chamber endorsement of the HISD bond referendum
Endorsement watch: District I
District D candidate switches to At Large #1
Endorsement watch: HISD Trustees
HISD gets Hispanic Chamber endorsement
State Proposition 2
Christie's back
Interview with Marlon Barabin
HISD still struggling with the bond referendum
Interview with James Rodriguez
Interview with Council Member Anne Clutterbuck
GLBT Political Caucus endorses revised HISD bond proposal
Uncle Dan update
Winning the write-in way
Interview with Manisha Mehta
Of bonds and taxes
Interview with John Marron
HISD bond proposal changes: Too little, too late?
Interview with Lawrence Allen
Christie departs, Tahir stays
A bit more about the candidates
The Chron on carpetbagging
Three strikes for Christie
More on the non-residency story
(Not) in residency
Interview with Joe Trevino
More grumbling about the HISD bond vote
Interview with Zaf Tahir
Lance Armstrong at Rice
The HCCS Trustee elections
Still time for the HISD bond referendum?
More on the announced candidates
The filing deadline approacheth
Prop 15 campaign kickoff at Rice today
Not much bonding
HISD bond skepticism
You can't sue me! I'm suing you!
Another special election?
From the "Some People Never Learn" Department
HISD bond referendum officially on the ballot
Mowery resigns, special election coming
Council filings are now open
HGLBT Endorses Candidates in November 6th Races
The amendment lineup for the fall election
Report from the Tejano Democrats endorsement meeting
Harris County Tejano Democrats meeting tonight
Welcome to the club
Victory
Off to Melissa's election night party
Today's the day - Vote!
It's not about Roy
From the "Why Every Vote Counts" Department
Early voting: Last chance
Early voting: I'll let John handle it
Early voting: A quick look at San Antonio
Early voting: Quote this!
Early voting: The wrong question
Early voting: Candidate forum Saturday
Early voting: The one-trick pony
Early voting Day Two
Early voting begins today for Houston runoff elections
More endorsements for Noriega
Lawsuit against Roy Morales
Andy Neill endorses Melissa Noriega
How about best five out of nine?
Election wrapup: Farmers Branch
Election wrapup: New Braunfels
Election wrapup: Houston City Council
Runoff coming
Get out there and vote!
Farmers Branch mayor: Vote against the ordinance
Care to revise and extend your turnout estimate?
Last chance to vote early today
If not you, then who?
Have I mentioned voting?
Vote!
Early voting: West University Place
Early voting: Current info in San Antonio
Early voting: San Antonio and Dallas
Early voting in New Braunfels
Early voting in Farmer's Branch
Early voting starts today
Possibly the only Chron story you'll see about the May 12 election
Chron endorses Melissa Noriega
Early voting starts Monday for the City Council special election
It's official: Ray Jones will not be on the May 12 ballot
Are you registered for the special election yet?
City responds to Jones again
More Council interviews
Supreme Court agrees to hear Jones' appeal
Ray Jones appeals to Supreme Court
Jones' petition denied
Jones responds back
Jones and Morales
Melissa Noriega campaign headquarters opening this Saturday
On qualifying for the ballot
Interview with Noel Freeman
More on Ray Jones' ballot suit
Why some made the ballot and others didn't, continued
Voters reject tax decrease
Interview with David Goldberg
Why some made the ballot and others didn't
Interview with Roy Morales
A brief profile of some Council candidates
This time we mean it: Council special election lineup really, truly set
GLBT Caucus endorses Noriega
Roy Morales will be on the ballot
The field is (maybe) set for May
Interview with Andy Neill
Interview with Melissa Noriega
Want to ask the candidates a question?
Spend a Saturday with the Noriegas in Fort Bend
The battle is joined in District I
Campaign kickoff event for Melissa Noriega
GLBT Caucus view of the Council candidates
Council filings: Morales is in
Special election called for May 12
O'Day wins HD29 runoff
It's official: We will have an election to replace Shelley
Another Cisneros in San Antonio politics


Election 2008 (848)
Presidential results by Congressional district
Precinct analysis: The City Council districts revised
Precinct analysis: The City Council districts
Jim Sharp investiture
Representative Walle
Supreme Court declines to hear TDP's appeal in voting machine suit
Pierre claims uncounted votes in his lawsuit
Walker withdraws election contest
Election challenge in HD11
Huffman defeats Bell
Today is Runoff Day
Some dirty tricks in the SD17 runoff
Gallegos and Van de Putte criticize DSCC
Dems drop legal challenge to Harper-Brown
One hundred feet
Lawsuit filed over rejected voter registrations
Followup on the Libertarian effect in the House
Get on the bus for Bell
Precinct analysis: North by northwest
Precinct analysis: The appeals courts
Early voting is going on now in SD17
Bettencourt speaks
Endorsement watch: Bell again
HD105 recount concluded
Still more on Bettencourt
A little more on Bettencourt
Bettencourt resigning
Bell on the air
A message from the Bell campaign
Precinct analysis: Go west, young candidate
That other recount
HD105 recount lawsuit moves to federal court
Precinct analysis: Even in his own back yard
Early voting locations for the SD17 runoff
Precinct analysis: It's Gene Green's world
Be careful what you're thankful for
The state of the Speaker's race in a nutshell
The twelfth Senator
There's a new Sheriff in town
HD105 litigation update
Precinct analysis: Some other views
HD105 recount litigation
Precinct analysis: The microcosm
More swearing-in ceremonies
Precinct analysis: What we've learned so far
Precinct analysis: The Richmond Rail Effect 2008
Precinct analysis: CD07
Precinct analysis: The declining Republican brand
Meet the new District Clerk
Election date set for SD17
Precinct analysis: The Obama effect
Time to gear up for Chris Bell
A word on voter registration numbers
From the "Predictions that didn't quite pan out" department
The counting is over
Precinct data: Coming attractions
Where - and when - the vote was
Democrats sue Bettencourt over provisional ballots
Recount in HD105
Republicans hold HD105
So was there an HGLBT endorsement backlash?
That horse is dead. Please stop beating it.
Republican recriminations
Only provisional ballots left to go
Time for Bell v. Huffman
Vince and Brad
The Speaker's race is officially underway
The big urbans and the big suburbans revisited
So what happened to the turnout?
My court will go on
Some more early thoughts on what happened
Some early thoughts on what happened
At the end of the day
Tightening
Fort Bend
Early results around the state
Early Harris County results are in!
Where to get started
A vote for voting today
A complete list of interviews for this election
All my judicial Q&As
The big urbans and the big suburbans
Report voting conditions and problems using Twitter
Just vote
SOS estimates nine million voters
Only fools make predictions
Interview with Mark Thompson
Coattails and turnout in Harris County
Look out for the last minute attacks
"Mommy! He's hitting back!"
Are you ready for the Speaker's race?
Endorsement watch: "The Wire" meets The Financial Times
Early voting: Right on target
Endorsement watch: That's a wrap
A cornucopia of late night electoral tidbits
Early voting: Did I mention today is the last day?
Endorsement watch: The "We just realized there's only one day of early voting left" edition
Prognosticating with the stars
The argument for campaign finance reform in Texas, in a nutshell
One way to deal with sign stealers
One last UT poll
Early voting: Over a half-million served
Endorsement watch: Have you always been concerned about that?
eSlate hate
Chron overview of the RRC race
Early voting: Still following the pattern
Interview with Larry Joe Doherty
Endorsement watch: Skelly and Hinojosa
Chron overview of the Commissioners Court race
Eight days out
"Love Boat", Harris County GOP style
Early voting: A little slower, but still strong
Candidate Q&A: Robert Schaffer
Endorsement watch: Opie Cunningham
Chron overview of the CCA races
Campaigns respond to Chron polling
Early voting: Weekend edition
Chron polling in Congressional races
A list of interviews to date
Endorsement watch: Still to go
Sign stealing
Chron overview of SD17
Endorsement watch: The line in the sand
More Chron polling: Most Dems lead in the county races
Early voting: Making history
The Chron does some polling
Chron overview of Skelly v. Culberson
Early voting Day Four: Same as it ever was
"Banned from the ballot box"
Endorsement watch: County Judge
Chron overview of the District Clerk race
One last Texas poll
Chron overview of CD22
Early voting Day Three: Strong and consistent
If you're going to say it, stand behind it
Candidate Q&A: Mike Engelhart
Endorsement watch: Appeals courts
Early voting, Day Two: Still going strong
Interview with Richard Morrison
Endorsement watch: Garcia and Noriega
Endorsement watch: Three for Larry Joe
Two weeks out, time for the sleazy attack mailers
More on Day One of early voting
Endorsement watch: Um, nobody?
Will someone please poll Harris County?
Theresa's taxes
Early voting, Day One: Very busy
I'm sorry, so sorry...
Early voting starts today
Interview with Rep. Nick Lampson
Endorsement watch: District Attorney
The Supreme Court money race
A little late night viewing
Endorsement watch: Once in a lifetime
The continuing Republican pie fight in SD17
The term limit battle in San Antonio
Some late night reminders
Vote early, if you can
Endorsement watch: Montemayor and Cohen
R2K TX-SEN poll: Noriega within 6
Vote early but pick your spot
Interview with Joe Montemayor
Campaign finances for the Congressional races
If you're going to vote straight ticket, just vote straight ticket
Early Vote rally preview
Candidate Q&A: Larry Weiman
Endorsement watch: Two out of three ain't bad
Endorsement watch: More for Strawn and more
And the Democratic perspective
Kennedy and Edwards for the HDCC
It wasn't me, it was my evil twin!
Endorsement watch: Nick Lampson
Interview with Kristi Thibaut
If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound on the judge
Endorsement watch: Planned Parenthood
The GOP aims downballot
Candidate Q&A: Peter Rene
Endorsement watch: Jaworski and Vo
Mark your calendars
Endorsement watch: More court action
Endorsement watch: State Board of Education
Interview with Rick Noriega
Another poll shows a competitive race in CD07
Chron overview of the DA race
Endorsement watch: County Attorney
Endorsement watch: The Chron still loves John
And in those other Senate debates
Endorsement watch: Texas' worst court
Noriega v. Cornyn, round 1
Interview with Jim Henley
Harris County countywide candidates' 30 day finance reports
Endorsement watch: More Supreme Court
Candidate Q&A: Bert Moser
HCDP08 video: "This is our time"
Harris County campaign finance reports, 30 days out
Endorsement watch: The Chron gets in the game
Interview with Joe Jaworski
The Obama effect in Park Cities
The Big Dog for Bell
Candidate Q&A: Hazel Jones
It's debatin' season
Appeals court tosses Brimer's suit
Endorsement watch: ParentPAC for Sherrie Matula
Where the voters are being registered
No super precincts in Galveston
Interview with Sherrie Matula
The current overview of the County Judge race
New CD10 poll has Doherty within five
Endorsement watch: The DMN on the CCA
The Sheriff debate does go on
Endorsement watch: TLCV and Parent PAC
Olson gets his vote around
Michelle Obama wants you to register to vote
Endorsement watch: Mayorbob for Bradford
Brimer versus Davis in court today
Candidate Q&A: Kyle Carter
Election Procedures and Information Following Hurricane Ike (repost)
Nine million voters?
Rasmussen September Texas polls
Will the Sheriff candidates debate?
Interview with Dexter Handy
Voter registration deadline is Monday
Candidate Q&A: Leslie Taylor
Interview with Trey Fleming
Chron overview of the Sheriff race
Extend the voter registration deadline
Brimer and the banks
The DA candidates - and those other guys - debate
Brazoria Dems HQ reopening
Harris County sample ballot
State House race roundup
TexBlog PAC endorses Robert Miklos
Texas Monthly talks to Rick Noriega
Last Davis-Brimer hearing to be held next week
Endorsement watch: Don't change a thing!
Interview with Adrian Garcia
Dinner fundraiser for Rick Noriega
Cook on the Palin Effect downballot
It's "Guess the endorsement" time again
Blue America Senate contest
Election Procedures and Information Following Hurricane Ike
Ike changes local campaigns
Interview with Rep. Ellen Cohen
Get to know your State Board of Education
Candidate Q&A: Randy Roll
Voter registration at an all-time high
Brimer lawsuit moved to different court
Interview with Virginia McDavid
CD07: Poll shows tighter race
Candidate Q&A: Martin Siegel
Interview with Laura Ewing
Endorsement watch: DMN for Sam Houston
Assessing the Dems' chances in the Lege
Candidate Q&A: Steven Kirkland
Huffman's poll
Timing is everything
Interview with Joel Redmond
Candidate Q&A: Andres Pereira
Court rules against Bell
Interview with Debra Kerner
Thirteen million voters
Brazoria Dems
TexBlog PAC endorses Joe Moody
More on Bell's lawsuit
Bell files suit to remove Simmons from ballot
Interview with David Mincberg
The Palin effect
House news
Candidate Q&A: Mike Miller
Interview with Michael Skelly
When Jack attacks
Lineup set for SD17
Vote again for LJD
Candidate Q&A: Judge Jim Jordan
No write-in opponent for Sheila Jackson Lee
Candidates speak on mental health and criminal justice issues
Interview with Diane Trautman
Kim's last dance
Here comes Hillary
Another favorable poll for Bell in SD17
Candidate Q&A: Al Bennett
Interview with Brad Bradford
Corndog
There's spending, and then there's spending
Candidate Q&A: Shawna Reagin
Interview with Loren Jackson
Where the line gets drawn
Brimer denied again
Candidate Q&A: Dion Ramos
ACORN in the field
Big John welcomes Bad Karl
Interview with Chris Bell
Favorable poll for Juan Garcia
Brimer takes it to the Supremes
Vote for LJD
Let he who is without sin fling the first mud
And the Democratic nominee for Probate Court #1 is...
Strange new poll
Matula calls on Davis to return Rove money
The Libertarian effect on the House
Big Bland John
Interview with Vince Ryan
The local excitement
Will there be a conservative backlash for seeking the HGLBTPC endorsement?
Jaworski TV
HGLBT Political Caucus makes its endorsements
Noriega's immigration plan
Murray on Bell
The Libertarians and the Speaker
McCain's plateau in Texas
A little love for Skelly
Who wants the HGLBT Political Caucus' endorsement?
Pete's strip club buddies
It's not stripping, it's burlesque
Interview with Diana Maldonado
The judges and the HGLBT Political Caucus
More on McCaul, and more
Bell, Skelly, and McCaul
"Turd Blossom" coming to town
Bob's your uncle
Deputies to back Garcia
Brimer will appeal
The Harris County money race
One more race on the ballot
Judge rules for Davis in ballot access case
State of Play
Bell's launch
Bell's campaign kickoff
The county money report
Skelly on TV
Some fundraising numbers
Bell time
The Chron on Bradford
What about Pete?
Get to know the HDCC
Docs abandoning the GOP
Three Dallas race overviews
Believe Texas
The Texas Blue interviews Diane Trautman
One small step for Bell
The Nation on the state of the state
Noriega v Cornyn on veterans' issues
Brimer sues to boot Davis off the ballot
Observer on Yanez
The sock puppet in the news
Court rules Dingus can be on the ballot
"Staff error"
TexBlog PAC Endorses Sherrie Matula
Beckwith's follies
BlueTexas
The end of the quarter is upon us
Big Bad John
More on the Lyceum poll
Senate shenanigans
TMA unendorses Cornyn
Deputies for Garcia
TexBlog PAC event a big success
Reminder: Houston Votes Zydeco event
Good news for Noriega
Interview with Eric Roberson
Final reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser tonight
TexBlog PAC endorses Chris Turner
Still time to help Noriega in the Boxer challenge
The sheriff speaks
Culberson versus wind
Term limits on the ballot in San Antonio
"Grumpy Republicans" watch
SD10 polling
Reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser
You have issues
Noriega and Skelly
Interview with State Rep. Juan Garcia
The state of the Noriega campaign
Houston Votes! kickoff fundraiser
Interview with Ernie Casbeer
Good poll news in CD10
Save the date: TexBlog PAC fundraiser
Interview with Joe Moody
Republican Rap Sheet
Huffman in SD17
Interview with Chris Turner
Meet the man who's taking on Tom Craddick
Interview with Robert Miklos
Annie's List matching contributions to Diane Trautman
Rasmussen shows Cornyn with a big lead
Interview with Wendy Davis
Bell not quite ready to jump in to SD17 just yet
Interview with State Rep. Dan Barrett
My (short) convention experience
Big Time comes to town
Fill Rick's boots
SD17 special election date set
For Bell for Senate
Once again, a matter of priorities
A little perspective, please
The Texas Observer polls the new primary voters
Early overview of the HCDE Trustee races
Baselice's Texas poll
Janek resigns
Happy Memorial Day
Figuring out Bobby Jindal
Early overview of the District Clerk race
Bell for SD17?
Interviews with Bradford and Lykos
Macias gives it up
Mincberg calls out Emmett's ethics task force
Early overview of the County Attorney race
Another Republican for SD17
Another good poll for Noriega
Early overview of the Tax Assessor race
Rosenthal's effect on the DA race
Hispanic candidates in Farmers Branch and Irving
Please support Diana Maldonado and TexBlog PAC
Some good poll news from Rasmussen
Next up for Lloyd Kelley
Mincberg goes after Emmett on ethics
Early overview of the Sheriff race
The appeals courts
The small county effect in the RRC runoff
A message from Diana Maldonado to TexBlog PAC
Rev. Lawson responds to the Chron
Early overview of the County Judge race
Skelly, Doherty among leaders in cash-on-hand ratio
TexBlog PAC endorses Diana Maldonado
Macias' date in court
A Noriega update
Early overview of the DA race
An early overview of the county races
800K for Skelly
The race to replace Janek
The Libertarian lineup
Interview with Michael Skelly
Bradford identifies the issues
Runoff wrapup
Open results thread
Last chance to vote
The two DA runoffs
Blockwalking With Richard Morrison
Overview of Railroad Commissioner runoff
TexBlog PAC: We did it!
Early voting totals
TexBlog PAC: One down, one to go
Last day of early runoff voting today
TexBlog PAC
Runoff early voting so far
A Republican runoff to watch
Fifty for TexBlog PAC
Skelly in Politico
Macias to sue over HD73 primary result
Furse is in for SD17
Identity theft alleged in HD144 runoff
Early voting for runoffs begins today
A new Republican name to replace Janek
The Senate conventions
KTRK on Skelly versus Culberson
Endorsement watch: The Chron and the AusChron
"Am not!" "Are too!"
Macias still loses after HD73 recount
Vote early in the runoff
Vote early, and vote often
Noriega wins Progressive Patriots poll
On the road to victory with Rick Noriega
Senate convention information
Recount in HD73
The Observer on the RRC runoff
Last chance to vote for Noriega in the Progressive Patriots poll
Primary turnout by State Rep district
GOP files complaint against Rep. Vo over fundraiser
Craddick's lawyer changes story regarding PAC donations
A look at the GOP County Judge race
Endorsement watch: Reed backs Montford
Meet Michael Skelly tonight
Help the Progressive Patriots PAC spend its money wisely
Canvass report: Results by State Rep district
Endorsement watch: Tejano Dems and the HGLBT Caucus for the runoffs
Lykos v. Siegler
Canvass report - Voting downballot
Endorsement watch: Cobb goes with Lehmberg
Time to start reviewing the canvass data
A look at the Democratic runoffs
Baselice disputes Masset's crossover theory
Republican aide quits over impersonating Democratic lawmaker
Olivo and Craddick
The not-so-hot button
A taste of Republican pessimism
Welcome, new voters! You're gonna get mail!
The Richmond Rail effect in the County Judge primary
The last word about Republican voters in the Democratic primary
Runoff time
There may have been some of them, but there was lots more of us
Once again with Republicans in the Democratic primary
LULAC may sue TDP
The bluing of Harris County
Checking my predictions
Republican primary results
Democratic primary results
Early results: Good, bad, and weird
Convention Time
Your Super Texas Tuesday last chance to vote
Super Texas Tuesday is here at last
Still on track for a record-breaking primary
Watch parties everywhere
Time for predictions
Dem turnout from a GOP perspective
Endorsement watch: The DMN repeats itself
Endorsement watch: Better to be right slow than wrong fast
Zogby polls Harris County
Endorsement watch: Still not quite done
Turnout watch: Early voting ends
Endorsement watch: Obama and Grant
Turnout watch: Republicans say "Hey! Remember us?!?"
Last day of early voting
Turnout watch: The SOS speaks
Endorsement watch: We endorse ourselves!
Campaign overview: CD10
Turnout watch: Two numbers to ponder
Judge bars enforcent of Speaker's law during suit
Endorsement watch: Standing up for Borris
Revisiting Republicans in the Dem primary
Yard sign primary update: The presidentials
Today's turnout examination
Endorsement watch: That's all they wrote
Truitt to drop out in CD07
Candidate overview: Supreme Court primaries
Early voting: Guessing the downballot effects
Endorsement watch: Scattershooting
So what does all this turnout mean?
Endorsement watch: Still silence from the Chron
HD119 special election set for May
Endorsement watch: Stuff from Austin
Where are the Republicans?
Noriega's first TV ad
Candidate Q&A: Larry Weiman
Vote early when you vote early
Early voting and the fate of a Craddick D
Early voting Day Two
V.O.T.E.R. candidate forum this Saturday
Early voting totals way high already
An incomplete list of candidates whom I support
Skelly off to the races
Let there be ads!
Candidate Q&A: Ruben Guerrero
Candidate Q&A: Jim Leitner
Endorsement watch: Repeating ourselves
Endorsement watch: One for Criss
Endorsement watch: The outlier
Candidate interview: Dexter Handy
Endorsement watch: Some catching up
Endorsement watch: Presidentials
Endorsement watch: Noriega time
Endorsement watch: DMN endorses Noriega
Candidate interview: State Rep. Dora Olivo
More Speaker's race maneuvers
Candidate Q&A: Harold Landreneau
Endorsement watch: Tick tock, tick tock...
Candidate interview: Larry Joe Doherty
Don't let them know what we think!
Wednesday campaign notes
If you want an expert opinion, ask an expert
Candidate Q&A: Judge Linda Yanez
The yard sign primary
TPJ files criminal complaint against Tom Craddick
Candidate interview: Rick Noriega
Democratic County Judge primary overview
Endorsement watch: GOP DA
Endorsement watch: Harris County Judge
Refighting Richmond rail in the County Judge race
Endorsement watch: Supreme Court
Endorsement watch: HGLBTPC and HCD
Candidate Q&A: Bruce Mosier
Will Brimer challenge Davis' ballot eligibility?
Teachers for Noriega
Candidate interview: Dan Grant
A short roundup of legislative primary posts
Endorsement watch: The DMN on the Supreme Court
Endorsement watch: Justice of the Peace
Candidate Q&A: Kyle Carter
More on Siegler's call for Rosenthal to resign
Another Super Tuesday watch party
More on Borris Miles
Siegler to Rosenthal: Please quit
Paul Moreno
Candidate interview: David Mincberg
Last day to register is today
Super Tuesday watch party
Endorsement watch: Constables
Chron overview of GOP County Judge candidates
Registration deadline Monday
Noriega talks border issues at FDL
Candidate Q&A: Steve Kirkland
Alvarado scores endorsements
Noriega's South Texas tour
Candidate interview: Adrian Garcia
A closer look at SD17
Two for CD10
Candidate Q&A: Fred Cook
The Supreme slacker Court
Republicans in Democratic primaries
Candidate interview: State Rep. Jessica Farrar
Noriega in South Texas
LaRhonda Torry reinstated to primary ballot
Los candidatos latinos
The GOP's woes, or lack thereof
Dukes and Craddick
Candidate Q&A: Sam Houston
"Thanks, Tom"
Court hearing on Wendy Davis' ballot eligibility
Candidate interview: Ron Reynolds
Another Supreme Court judge facing campaign finance questions
Candidate Q&A: Andres Pereira
Candidate interview: Carol Alvarado
Replacing Ronnie Earle
Gas lines and the Railroad Commission
Now that's what I call a quick weight-loss plan!
Mandamus update
GOP DA candidates say "We're not Chuck!"
Another City Council candidate conundrum
Candidate interview: Armando Walle
The other mandamus
Mincberg raises money
Candidate interview: State Rep. Garnet Coleman
When the Eighties attack, and other stories
No ballot challenge over Chuck's withdrawal
TPA endorsements for Democratic primaries
Candidate Q&A: Baltasar D. Cruz
Candidate interview: Joe Jaworski
Henley and CD07
Where the potties are
Burka on the House races
The fallout from Rosenthal
Candidate Q&A: Susan Criss
A new spin on the "Hillary will save us/kill us!" meme
Fletcher's poll against Van Arsdale
Candidate interview: Diane Trautman
Why Ewing and not Garcia
Earle endorses Lehmberg to replace him
Candidate Q&A: Jim Wrotenbery
The accidentally-resigned Council member?
And in the end, Chuck flops out
Possibly complete list of candidate filings
What now, Chuck?
Is Rosenthal about to flipflop?
Kelly Siegler jumps into DA race
Initial accounting of who's running
What happened with Chuck?
Filing news: So what happened?
Rosenthal withdraws
Filing news: As the deadline approaches
Filing news: Deadline day
Are Yanez's petition signature problems unfixable?
Chron story on Garcia's announcement
Rosenthal versus the Republicans
Filing news: Adrian Garcia for Sheriff
The defiant Chuck R
Filing news: Rhettmania!
Harris County GOP ponders its Rosenthal options
Filing news: Richard Morrison for Fort Bend County Commissioner
Filing news: Lots of action
Filing news: The other side of the aisle
Filing news: Gene, Gene, the Do-Nothing Machine
"Toxic Mike Jackson"
The RPT versus Texas Monthly
Filing news: Jaworski, Jordan, and Tison
Filing news: A small flurry of activity
Noriega makes ActBlue's Blue Majority page
Filing news: Alvarado, Criss, Thompson
Filing news: Michael Skelly in CD07
Filing news: Mincberg for County Judge
Filing news: Ronnie Earle retires
Dawnna Dukes' Vegas vacation
Some action in the Senate
Why I'll be voting for Jessica Farrar in HD148
Filing news: Who is Joel Redmond?
Filing news: Sherrie Matula
Phil King wants to raise your taxes
"You're a mean one, Senator Grinch"
Trautman for Tax Assessor
Filing news: Contested primaries coming
The filings I'm waiting for
Rene versus Ridgway for Justice of the Peace
BOR interviews Judge Criss
Twelve out of thirteen members of Congress recommend Rick Noriega
Tarrant's progress
It's official: Criss versus Yanez for Supreme Court Place 8
Amber Moon in HD144
Filing news: Murphey and McDavid
Noriega kicks it off
Will Phil King be this year's Kent Gruesendorf?
More on HDs 52 and 46
Walle will file for HD140 on Monday
Dukes draws a primary opponent
Help send Rick Noriega off to Austin to file for Senate
Truitt to run as an independent in CD07
Krusee to not run for re-election
A contender in CD07
"A battle of ideas"
Lampson's strategy
Dan Patrick versus the world
Noriega's primary opponent
Richard Morrison for Fort Bend County Commissioner
Loren Jackson campaign kickoff
Victor Morales announces for HD04
National Noriega
"Toxic" Bill Keffer
Delisi and Krusee
The parallel election
State Rep. Robby Cook will not run in '08
Trautman announces for 2008
Clark and Kerry for Noriega
DFA officially endorses Noriega
I don't just blog the news, I live it
First came Cheney, now comes Bush
Patrick v Van Arsdale, Round 2
Help DFA support Rick Noriega
Mincberg makes his entry
Expand the map
Houston TexBlog PAC fundraiser a success
Art Hall for Railroad Commissioner
Weekend Noriega update
Walle and Gutierrez
Reminder: TexBlog PAC fundraiser on Monday
Now what for Noriega?
Watts dropping out of Senate race
Texas Congressional fundraising numbers
State Rep. Robert Puente to retire
Emmett, Bacarisse spar over trivia
Two for Supreme Court Place 7
Railroad commissioner
Watts' quarterly report
Sam Houston for Supreme Court
BOR interview with Watts and Noriega
Mincberg for County Judge kickoff event
It's property tax cut season
Primary in JP Precinct 1
Alvarado looks to HD145
It's never enough, is it?
A Republican identifies their top targets
Noriega reports $570K raised
Manlove to run for Congress
More endorsements for Noriega
Last time I'll nag you (this quarter) for a donation
Baseline poll for TX-SEN
One thousand and one hundred thousand
Getting crowded in CD22
Noriega wins DFT endorsement
Last chance to vote in DFT Senate Endorsement poll
Rep. Delisi to retire
Don't forget to vote in the DFT Senate Endorsement poll
Democracy For Texas announces Senate endorsement poll
Bradford makes his announcement
Patrick v Van Arsdale
Eight hundred
Noriega racks up endorsements in Cameron County
Noriega on Cornyn and the surge
Meet The Candidates In Clear Lake Tonight
More on Bradford v Rosenthal, the Sequel
Ron Reynolds update
Rick on FDL
What Rick said about blogs
Bradford v Rosenthal, round 2
A challenger for Vo - anybody else?
Four for Bacarisse's job
Voter education forum this Saturday
Yanez announces for Supreme Court
Olivo gets primaried again
A candidate for HD144
Bacarisse makes it official
O'Day won't seek re-election
Texas Democratic icons endorse Noriega
Bacarisse to step down tomorrow?
Diana Maldonado for HD52
Some endorsements for Noriega
Kilgore!
Cornyn to Bush: Stay away! (But send money!)
Talton says he's in for CD22
Noriega: One month in
Everyone wants to welcome Karl Rove back to Texas
Who will run for the CCA?
How to welcome Karl Rove home
Rent-a-protester update
Davis is in for SD10
Chat with Rick Noriega on Firedoglake
Reminder: Rick on Firedoglake today
Rent-a-protester
Tougher times ahead for the GOP, says Abbott
Top Hispanic Republican backs Noriega for Senate
Announcing the Texas Blog PAC
More on SD10
Money, it's a hit
Noriega now part of BlueAmerica
At Yearly Kos with Rick Noriega
Primaries everywhere you look
Noriega liveblogging on Daily Kos
Noriega for Texas video
JudgeCriss dot com
Noriega visits the Valley, slams Cornyn
Capitol Annex interviews Joe Jaworski
Fake fundraising
Rove sneaks in to give Cornyn a hand
Rick Noriega In Houston On Saturday
Why should CD22 get all the fun?
Mike Engelhart fundraiser
How the GOP is gearing up for 2008
Noriega announces
Noriega for Senate kicks off today
Fundraising: Lampson and Cornyn
Fundraising numbers - Grant and Jaworski
Cornyn attacks Watts
Noriega to announce tomorrow
The Hill on Noriega and Watts
Watts raises $1.1 million
Four for Senate?
The Chron's Noriega story
If it's so great, why don't you run for it?
Noriega in the Star-Telegram
Who Wants To Run Against Nick Lampson?
Rick Noriega On the Fourth Of July: Announces His Intent To Form A Senate Exploratory Committee
Rep. Pete Gallego: Texas Needs Rick Noriega As Our Senator
Rick Noriega To Announce Senate Exploratory Committee Soon
"Draft Rick" in the Observer
Where the votes are: HD136
CQ on CD10
Rick Noriega's record of accomplishment
Where the votes are these days
Chet Edwards?
Money will be raised, primaries will be fought. Film at 11.
Draft Rick Noriega
Ed versus Charles
Mikal Watts talks
Susan Criss for Supreme Court
Sklar will not run again in 2008
Watts goes all in
Wallace will not run in CD22
Eight for '08
Lampson not running for Senate
Targeting 2008: CD10
Two for CD10
Dan Grant announces for CD10
Targeting 2008: State Senate
Targeting 2008: Pete Sessions
Ben Barnes for Senate?
What does Kos know about TX-Sen?
Bradford for Sheriff?
The time to start supporting John Cornyn's opponent is now
From the "Things I Wish Were True But Aren't" Department
How can we miss you if you won't go away?
Sklar on Paul's presidential run


Election 2009 (100)
Who should represent District H?
A look at the District H runoff
Parker on education
Endorsement watch: Three Senators for Locke
Roy takes my advice
Endorsement watch: Yolanda backs Maverick
Grading the Houston mayoral campaign websites
Brown and Locke spar over education
Villafranca loses in Farmers Branch
Don't sell that beer just yet in Lubbock
Roy's self-inflation
We need more early voting locations
There is now beer in Lubbock
Ed and Maverick in District H
Vote today
Projecting District H
More candidates
Last day of early voting for the May elections
In Lubbock, there is no beer
Endorsement watch: Ed for H
Early voting in District H
Endorsement watch: Bring on the funk
Endorsement watch: Castro for San Antonio
Chron District H overview
The Mayorals and gambling
More on Lonnie Allsbrooks
Another contender for At Large #1
Hey, at least it's not an L
Neil talks to Noel
Last candidate forums for District H
Mayoral Musings
Registration deadline for District H
Candidate interview: Ed Gonzalez
Litt announces for At Large #1
ITL and OTL
Early voting schedule and locations for District H
Let the gloves come off
Candidate interview: Hugo Mojica
Candidate interview: Maverick Welsh
Locke to formally announce today
Candidate interview: Gonzalo Camacho
Candidate interview: Lupe Garcia
Time to throw out the first attack mailer of the season
Shorter to challenge Lovell
Candidate interview: Yolanda Navarro Flores
Holm announces for Controller
Reminder: GHDC District H candidate forum
Candidate interview: Rick Rodriguez
Activist running in Farmers Branch
Derr to run for At Large #1
"Houston first"
Derr misses filing deadline
Another City Council lineup update
Bradford announces for At Large #4, Pennington announces in G
Council campaign miscellania
ULI Mayoral candidate forum report
Green to announce for City Controller
Roy announces
Shady Acres candidate forum report
Stardig announces in A
Brown's announcement coming
District H candidate forum in Shady Acres
Roy is in
Locke is in, Hall is out
Monday morning Mayoral intrigue
Parker polls, King drops out
First impressions
Ed Gonzalez kickoff event
A list of who has actually filed treasurer's reports so far
Parker to announce for Mayor today
Locke files his treasurer's report
Election date set for District H
City Council lineup update
Derr files, Bradford contemplates
Filing report: Noel Freeman
Let the candidate filings begin!
Early contender for District A
Special election date for District H not set yet
Strayhorn makes it official
More contenders
Schecter for Council?
District H update
Julian Castro announces for San Antonio Mayor
King for Council?
Noel Freeman announces for At Large race
Roy!
No King?
Cibrian in San Antonio
One indecisive grandma
You can't keep a tough grandma down
Three more names for District H
The next special election
Gene Locke
Where the line gets drawn
Would we call him "Mr. Governor Mayor"?
Here comes Karl
A look ahead to the Council of the future
The next Mayor of San Antonio
Cibrian in '09?
Is it 2009 already?


Election 2010 (87)
Annie's List kicks off the 2010 elections
Van de Putte gearing up
Hail to the king!
Clay Jenkins
Berman says he's in for Governor
More on Radnofsky for AG
Cornyn clueless about KBH
Challenging Chet
KBH will do whatever KBH will do
Roger that
Joe for Galveston
Perry's poll
Statewide race for Earle?
The Senate fundraising scorecard so far
Everyone has an opinion on Kay and Rick
Keep your eye on the ball, Tom
BAR for AG
White rakes it in for his Senate bid
Kinky makes it official
Presidential results by Congressional district
DCCC targeting CD10
Dallas Dems look to 2010
Let the results speak for themselves
Meet Tom Schieffer
Kinky says he's getting ready to run
Schieffer jumps in
Help celebrate 27 for 27
One more PPP poll
PPP on the Texas Senate race
More SJL rumors
KBH leads Perry in early poll
Hey, you - wanna run for judge?
The case for Van de Putte
Van de Putte profile
Poll Texas
More on Schieffer
The reason we need a credible Democratic candidate for Governor, in a nutshell
More big bucks for Bill White
Rep. Thibaut
Pete Sessions and the Taliban
Is KBH overstating her support?
Two challengers for Dunbar
White gets to a big fundraising start
Don't fear a fight with KBH
Kay and Rick, Rick and Kay
Cisneros for Governor?
Kay and Rick on the money
Waiting for KBH, the saga continues
The Speakership and redistricting
Sharp makes it official
Another Mayor for Senate?
Possibly my last post about the 2010 Governor's race this year
Your name here for Governor in 2010
More on Bill White's Senate announcement
White officially announces
Some sloppy Senate reporting
White for Senate
More Senate scrambling
Sharp is in for Senate, whenever that is
A look ahead to 2010 in Harris County
The Kay and Rick show gets ready to take it on the road
KBH forms exploratory committee
How steep is that hill?
Waiting for Bill
Lone Star Times calls on Dunbar to apologize
It'll be 2010 before you know it
Let the speculation for 2010 begin!
And for our next trick with the SBOE
KBH: Why not both?
Waiting for KBH: A step in the Senate
All John Sharp, all the time
Could we just write one big story and be done with it?
The definite possibility of a firm maybe
No she won't! Yes he will!
More on Ames Jones and KBH
The queue behind KBH
Waiting for KBH, the continuing story
A look ahead to the Council of the future
The Nation on the state of the state
Another Lyceum poll
Once again, why is Kinky Friedman still in my newspaper?
Perry says again that he's running again
Waiting for KBH: The next generation
More on the Perry 2010 plan
The thirty-nine percent solution
Why is Kinky Friedman still in my newspaper?
Don't do us any favors


Elsewhere in Houston (439)
Glass recycling
Gallery fire ruled arson
Terra Cotta Warriors
Gallery Furniture fire
Travis Elementary closes for a week
Post-mortem on UH-Downtown name change
"Houston Have Your Say" on the economy
Build it here, flood it there
The Freeland Historic district
The new Hermann Park train
How about a little salvage?
White wins one from EPA
What next for Wilshire Village?
Whose TIRZ?
Council OKs TIRZ deal for Regent Square
Radack's Hill
America's Least Wasteful Cities
City scores another SOB victory
Descendants of Olivewood
Stimulus package, Council-style
Good times and bad for museums
We keep on growing
Union Bar reaches resolution with GLBT community
More on the Union Bar
No service for gays
Recycling reboot
Catastrophic, year 2
Form-based codes come to Dallas
Is there an Ashby highrise lawsuit coming?
Downtown post office for sale
Catch the WAve
Pity the poor Astrodome
Wilshire Village declared a fire hazard
A peek inside Astrodome Studios
Video report from UH-Downtown renaming meeting
Wilshire Village update
District H CIP meeting report
The ongoing UH-Downtown renaming saga
Wilshire Village Apartments
Memorial Park bridge
Time for a Saint Arnold update
How much would you pay for that post office?
Houston Have Your Say 2.0
So much for the wine bar
Who are you calling a knucklehead?
Not so Tolerance Bridge
HIWI presents "Ike: The Book"
UH-Downtown to move ahead with name change
Day Of Service - Call for Action
Non-profit social media
Weingarten, neighbors settle
The bad times are coming
Washington Quiet Zone
No Heights Village
Gray on the latest Weingarten kerfuffle
Saving the water wall
From the "What might have been" files
The University of Something Else
Weingarten's bait and switch
Green lights
The financial crisis and the Astrodome Hotel
Another UH-Downtown renaming update
Tolerance Bridge
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd
The Ten Ugliest Buildings in Downtown Houston
Putting Houston on the right track
A hippie bohemian setback
Bye-bye, bubbles
Bye-bye, AGDs
RIP, Mac the elephant
Houston versus the AGDs
The urban Costco
Curbside recycling to start again
Still no love for the Ashby highrise
Deadline looming for the hippie bohemian attorneys
Houston Pavilions update
Look out, Fulshear, here we come
Billboards today, AGDs tomorrow
Council still looking at convention center hotel options
The city's plan to cut greenhouse gases
Someday, I hope we have clean air
The Woodlands needs your help!
The Odd Fellow resurgence
UH Downtown renaming update
Ashby update
What about the hippie bohemian attorneys?
More recycling on the way
The greening of Houston
Tres Hombres talk up Houston
Regent Square, coming soon (maybe)
Not-UH-Downtown
More on the Astrodome movie studio
A peek at neighborhoods of the future
Bringing entertainment to Sugar Land
The tunnels and the ADA
Discovery Green update
How much longer for the Alabama Bookstop?
Abetting walking
Why I want more recycling in Houston
Who will buy the Heights Theater?
Harris County keeps on growing
From the "How to tell you spend too much time thinking about politics" files
The Main Street Sears
Texans, Rodeo back off Dome hotel opposition
Mayor White talks recycling
Use it or lose it time for curbside recycling
White Linen Night tonight
Houston gets dinged for non-recycling
Potty problems
No Ashby highrise ordinance coming
Nights in white linen
Homes for the homeless
Density and transit go hand in hand
Incentivizing recycling
Bloomberg on Houston
Still more recycling
From the "You're new around here, aren't you?" files
Houston: Hot or not for college grads?
Time to say good-bye to the Kirby trees
The 1960 blues
Mighty big cross you've got there
More recycling
New Hot Bagel Shop coming
Vandalism at All Saints
A little less blight
One last step for Ashby Highrise
Sarnoff on the Heights Highrise
National Night Out, the local option
More on the Heights highrise
Good news comes in threes
Is there a Heights highrise in the works?
A tale of two headlines: Slow/No slow
Saint Arnold's location update
Building collapse at Rice
Tamalalia 2.0
Washington Avenue in a nutshell
Regent Square update: Please leave Allen Parkway alone!
The fate of the Dome is in his hands
The Astrodome as movie studio?
Score one for preservation
Update on the new Whole Foods
Bringing the city to the suburbs
Astrodome lease in the works
New Whole Foods coming
Mount Rush Hour revisited
Art Car Museum curator killed in crash
Form and zoning
Score one for the Visitors Bureau
We've got bad air, yes we do!
Attitudes on immigration worsen
Still looking for a few volunteers
Green Market: The first week!!!
Maybe the z-word isn't so dirty after all
Making Montrose walkable
Ashby highrise lawsuit coming?
Lake Radack
How bad is Fort Bend's air?
Hilton Americas up for sale
Thumbs up on Day One for Discovery Green
Discovery Green Q&A
Mount Rush Hour
Countdown: Urban parks and organic produce
Discovery Green set to open
A Catastrophic beginning
Lastest Ashby plans nixed
Density and walkability on Montrose and Studemont
WiFi bubbles
Adickes sells his studio
Archstone Memorial Heights gets ready for the wrecker
Minimum lot size ordinance upheld
Ashby developers to move forward as originally planned
Houston, the next great world city
Another look at the new Costco
Memorial Heights update
The Presidential heads in Pearland
More on Archstone Memorial Heights
Once more with the Ashby Highrise
The Beer Can Reopener
News coverage of the West 11th Street Park dedication
The West 11th Street Park grand re-opening ceremony
Fundraising for Memorial Park
Dome deal lives on
The West 11th Street Park grand re-opening
When planners and anti-planners collide
Upper Kirby update
The Beer Can House reopens
Consultant says Dome hotel ought to work
Can we all just get along?
Ashby highrise ordinance delayed again
Citywide WiFi a no go for now
Our experts can beat up your experts
Giant Presidential heads head off to Pearland
Some news about Washington Avenue
The latest highrise rumors
Catastrophic Theater launch party
Nobody likes the Ashby Highrise ordinance
Commissioners criticize Emmett over Dome hotel plan
Construction begins - for real! - at the Ed Sacks site
Dome lease negotiated
Bob McNair talks about the Astrodome
Regulations and growth
And speaking of planning...
No extension for Astrodome Redevelopment
Ask about the Dome hotel, and ye shall receive an update
Is this town big enough for all those convention center hotels?
The planning and anti-planning debate continues
Pictures from a demolition
Who would build residences there?
More on planning and "anti-planning"
Are you ready for another implosion?
Kirby Drive high rise update
Pity the poor developers
Arabia Shrine Center sale finalized
Chron wants something done about billboards
"Why Houston?"
"A truckload of flaming death"
RIP, Greenway Theatre
More billboard reductions coming?
Fewer billboards!
Wanna buy a tower?
"Demolition by neglect"
20 years of Lights in the Heights
HPD says hotel was empty when it was imploded
Catastrophic, in a good way
What about that tower's traffic?
Chron advocates saving the Dome
The immigration "threat"
Was someone in the Crowne Plaza when it was imploded?
Watch it go boom
New development on Yale
The Dome conundrum
One hurdle cleared for Astrodome Redevelopment
McNair speaks on Dome redevelopment
Ashby ordinance delayed
Implosion!
New digs for Saint Arnold's located?
What next for the Dome?
Chron favors Bissonnet high rise ordinance
The Joe Moreno Community Center
Construction and deconstruction update
More on the Astrodome Redevelopment opposition
Reliant and Rodeo oppose Astrodome Redevelopment
Monster Mash and Fall Festival
Construction near where I work
Anti-Bissonnet high rise ordinance proposed
"Get Ashby High"
Historic? Check. Protected? Not so much
Old Sixth Ward home tour Sunday
Trees on Kirby update
Examiner claims about Bissonnet high rise disputed
Bissonnet tower first discussed in 2005
Upper Kirby compromise reached
The Chron on the Bissonnet high rise
Construction begins at the old Ed Sacks Waste Paper site
Good-bye, Allen House
Reward for KPFT shooting info
Bissonnet high rise protesters get some results
Hardin versus the high rise
The demolition begins for Allen House
High rises and the Z word
More on the Bissonnet high-rise battle
Kirby renovation by the numbers
The anti-Bolsover
Fifty years of vocational training
Another high-rise, another neighborhood uproar
Revitalizing Montrose
Saint Arnold's location search update
Land shark!
Allen House: Getting ready to go away
I Love Lucy
Gone
The Chron on Weingarten and preservation
My visit to the Center
Behind the scenes with the River Oaks preservation efforts
Neighborhood development
Design change for the Astrodome hotel
Photos from the River Oaks Shopping Center demolition
The Center Opens Group Homes for Mentally Retarded Adults
Looscan Library ribbon-cutting (with photos)
And so the demolition begins
The Woodlands' destiny is in its hands
Let it be up to the neighborhood
Beautifying the bayou
Downtown towers sprouting up everywhere
Permit for demolition acquired
A conversation with David Baldwin
The shopping center still stands for now
Score one for the hippie bohemian attorneys
Questions for Frank Michel about the Center
More on the KPFT shooting
Council approves sale of land to Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
It's Hippie Bohemian Attorney Day at City Council
Cut and plug
History everywhere you look
KPFT targeted for "alternative" programming?
Two hundred
A tour of Lower Westheimer
Weekend Facebook update
Behold the power of Facebook
I Will Not Shop At The West Gray Barnes & Noble
River Oaks Shopping Center: Going, going...
Last chance to speak out for the River Oaks Shopping Center
"For Fun, For Life, For You"
Old Sixth Ward protections pass City Council
Infernal update
Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation update
Homeless in suburbia
Houston: Greener than you think
Infernal Bridegroom shuts down
Preservation, then and now
The seven wonders of Houston
Bolsover bohemian battle details
What about that smoking ban?
Trees cut down at River Oaks shopping center
Astro-Whirled
Better times at BARC
Astro Weeds
Increased safety at railroad crossings is a good thing
The trash man cometh - just maybe not today
Philosophical Questions Department
West 11th Street Park wrapup
Historic Status on tap?
Zoo prices
Move that brewery
A few questions for the Cockroach Lady
More discussion of Kotkin and "Opportunity Urbanism"
The long march for Dome redevelopment financing continues onward
First Houston, now Conroe
Keeping an eye on the River Oaks Shopping Center
Kotkin v. Falkenberg
The Hermann Park Train
West 11th park officially out of the woods
The Beatles are coming!
Temporary arthouse construction pictures
Ellen Cohen retires from HAWC
Tax breaks for historic buildings passed by Council
Temporary art in the Heights
When lawns get out of hand
"Just be yourself"
The Menil turns 20
Where can you get a drink in this town?
Dome financing comes through
Still not out of the woods for the West 11th Street Park?!?
600 Sq Mi deadline tomorrow
Not so fast on that Astrodome reprieve
West 11th Street Park saved!
Another reprieve for the Astrodome
Get ready to say Good-bye to the River Oaks Shopping Center
One more step towards independence for the Woodlands
More money for parks
Meet the BARC boss tomorrow
It takes a village of bohemian hippie attorneys
Weingarten begins process for River Oaks demolition
More public funding for the Astrodome Hotel?
The commercial side of the Art Car Parade
Bye-bye, Three Brothers
Buddy, can you spare a cockroach?
Money talks, but only if you can hear it
The clock is ticking for the West 11th Street Park
Saints preserve us!
The Center's letter of intent with the city
Another bohemian hippie attorney update
What about the other nonprofit leases?
More details on the Center's deal with the city
The Sixth Ward and the Planning Commission
The Center's deal with the city
Announcement of agreement with the Center
600 Sq Mi
The Center for Hearing and Speech
Clarification of the Center's lease with the city
Ban on demolition in Old Sixth Ward could be permanent
Former City Attorney explains the deal with the Center
Houston WiFi - Not just for Houston
Council approves WiFi plan
Stars Over Kirby update
The Center at City Council
"Zoning" in the Heights update
Splashtown: Not going anywhere
Friends of the Center at City Council
Zoning in the Heights?
The Mayor talks about the Center
More on the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
The giant Presidential heads get set to move to Pearland
Council members back Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
City WiFi details emerge
The Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation
One last hope for the Astrodome Hotel
River Oaks redevelopment made official
Is this the end for the Astrodome Hotel?
Another downtown tower
Old Sixth Ward wins preservation award
This ain't your daddy's Pasadena
Downtown construction photos
Woodland Heights home tour this weekend
An update on a longstanding Heights development story
Preservation isn't just about buildings
Robinson Warehouse - The grassy knolls
Arabia Shrine Center to be sold
Time for a task force
Bohemian hippie attorney development update
Mayor's air cleanup plan scaled back and under attack
Demolition moratorium in Old Sixth Ward
Area mayors complain about White's environment plan
And now the bad preservation news
A few thoughts about density
So long for now to Autry Court
Tax breaks for historic buildings moves forward
Meet Houston Pavilions
Hold that demolition, for now
Houston Pavilions groundbreaking today
WiFi for all
Help for the bungalows?
City WiFi on the agenda
Onion Creek goes smokefree
Some details about the city Wi-Fi rollout
Earthlink wins city WiFi contract
The most endangered historic places of 2007
West 11th Street Park still not out of the woods
Gentrification watch: Houston Avenue
Robinson Warehouse - The hole is bigger than I thought
The Allen House effect
Help the Beer Can House
Mayor proposes preservation ordinance for Old Sixth Ward
"Bohemians, attorneys, and hippies"
Get ready to say goodbye to Allen House
Preservation in River Oaks
Astroworld site update
Next on the endangered buildings list: The Arabia Shrine Center
Slippery when icy
Six Flags to sell Splashtown
Bob Perry donates to the West 11th Street Park effort
Robinson Warehouse - Clearing debris
City buys West 11th Street Park
YouTubing the Old Sixth Ward
The Kirby construction mural
Robinson Warehouse - ...Gone


Enronarama (5)
Skilling to get a new sentence
A pardon for Clemens?
Pai pays up
What's wrong with this picture?
Enron Broadband convictions tossed


Food, glorious food (50)
The power of burritos
Microbrewery bill dead
Cottage foods update
Microbrewery bill passes out of committee
Is there still hope for the microbreweries?
Microbrewers likely to come up short again
Banning trans fats
Cottage foods
No hog hunting
The Statesman on the state of beer in Texas
Them's good eatin'
Brennan's to reopen
The real Coke classic
Tofu tamales
Frying turkeys
The state of beer in Texas
Benefit for Brennan's
New food in the 'hood
Mooseburger, medium rare
The bottled water blues
Peanut allergies and blanket bans
Lie your way to better health
New Hot Bagel Shop coming
A brief history of the Pig Stand
Restaurants and the rising price of food
The highbrow Hooters
The New Joys of Jell-O
Car crash into the Hot Bagel Shop
RIP, Otto's Bar B Que
Will the Pig Stand ride again?
Michelob or michelada?
Stuffing wars
Anthony Bourdain understands the Internet
Where the food is in Houston
Feel the burn!
Big food in Clear Lake
Still more new frontiers in caffeination
A piece of The Stables lives on
Keep your hands off my garlic!
Save chocolate!
Kids and restaurants
New frontiers in caffeine
How much do you like beer?
The Stables: Gone but not (yet) forgotten
You don't want fries with that?
So long, Stables
Little Hip's
Welcome to Beertown
"They paved paradise"
Waiter!


General snarkiness (20)
The sanctity of marriage personified
From the "It's not what you say, it's how you say it" department
From the "Some people just shouldn't get married" files
Cheerleaders in an elevator
It's an amazing thing watching a meme being born
"In the White House there is no beer"
From the "You might also consider getting a life" department
The feathered look
Your moment of Zen for the weekend
Has anyone registered the "sucks" variant yet?
"Garfield Minus Garfield"
Because "Homogoodfriendsuals" is too hard to pronounce?
Now the real story can be told
He's baaaaaaaaack...
From the "Pollsters With Too Much Free Time" department
Bad ad placement
The giant blue porn-hating elephant
That's a marriage class I'd pay for
What's in a misspelled name?
"But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane"


Hurricane Katrina (126)
See you later, alligator
"Near normal" hurricane season
Windstorm insurance bill passes House committee
Ike, Ike, baby
Windstorm insurance changes
Settlement in UTMB lawsuit
Measuring hurricanes
The Ike Dike
UTMB versus Shriners
A setback for Shriners
If UTMB, why not Shriners?
UTMB rehiring
UTMB hospital to stay in Galveston
UTMB layoff lawsuit update
Cleaning up the bay
Hurricane relief spending
Reliant roof repaired
HIWI presents "Ike: The Book"
Rebuilding the seawall
Republican women write letters
Can this city be saved?
Casino gambling for Galveston?
Layoffs for you, bonuses for me
HHSC extends Medicaid coverage
Another casualty of Ike
Rally to rebuild UTMB
"Recycle Ike" winner
Lawsuit filed over UTMB firings
More ways to measure hurricanes
You hunker down. I'm bugging out.
Curbside recycling to start again
Still talking about buried power lines
How would you recycle all that?
Curbside recycling still on hold
Galveston early voting locations
Mighty big pile of debris you've (still) got there
Once again with the electrical infrastructure
Mighty big pile of debris you've got there
Voting in Galveston
A more direct way to help
CenterPoint and the trees
The still missing
Power to the people - Working for the weekend
Power to the people: The people are still waiting
Congressman No
The undocumented reconstruction workers
Power and water to the people update
Billions and billions
Will Ike mean fewer billboards?
Are you ready for higher electric bills?
I said, power to the people!
Can we please wave bye-bye?
Wind insurance
Power to the people
Donor fatigue
Home
The missing
Chase Tower after Ike
A question about Ike
Today's Ike updates
Ice
Galveston
POD confusion
Monday Ike roundup
Remembering Brennan's
Volunteer opportunities
A report from Houston
A report from Galveston
The recovery
Powerless
Reliant Stadium damaged, Texans game off
Starting to assess the damage
Ike's arrival
The last men on the island
Fearing the worst for Galveston
Texans game postponed till Monday
Ike equals Rita, or Alicia?
Ike is coming
Can you print that in large, friendly letters for me?
Not reassuring at all
Hurricane fatigue
Ike
Goodbye, Gustav
Gustav arrives
Some hope for New Orleans
Too close for comfort
Go away, Gustav
Gustav
Edouard's effects
Edouard: More drizzle than sizzle
Nothing to do but wait
Don't need to be a weatherman
Get ready for Edoaurd
Tropical depression
Why we evacuate
Hurricanes are coming - Is your home ready?
Active hurricane season predicted: Film at 11
One degree makes a big difference
Do we name too many storms?
The 2007 hurricane season: Hot or not?
He writes letters
Two more hurricanes
The end (?) of hurricane season in Texas
No help for Rita victims
Goodbye, Humberto
Hello, Humberto
Only six more to go
Hello, Felix
Goodbye, Dean
Dean in Mexico
Dean heads towards Mexico
Dean headed for Mexico
Dean strengthens, moves south
Starting to worry about Dean
Erin and Dean
Hurricane forecast updated for 2007
Further dispatches from the "Good news, bad news" files
Hurricane season so far: Good news, bad news
Outsourcing FEMA
Keeping the gas stations stocked
Duck and cover, or head for the hills?
This year's hurricane plans
Time for the annual "Very Active Hurricane Season" forecast
Seventeen named hurricanes predicted
Mayor White wins award for Katrina work
La Nina is not our amiga


Iraq attack (7)
How to honor Andy Olmsted
RIP, Andy Olmsted
Rick Noriega's Tribute to Sgt. Omar Mora
Lampson, Al Green, Jackson-Lee And Others Comment on Bringing The Troops Home
It's only a compromise if both sides give up something
This is not your father's Fort Bend County
The other Walter Reed


Jackpot! (24)
The fifty dollar flop
Why lotteries make me queasy, continued
The state of the lottery: Booooooring!
Lottery sales down
If at first you don't privatize, try try again
Free Starbucks At 11 AM Today!
Lottery privatization still lurking out there
Fifty-dollar scratch-off redux
Which races are they playing in?
Why lotteries make me queasy, in a nutshell
Well, somebody likes those fifty-dollar lottery tickets
The Lottery: Still not a game for the rich
One bourbon, one scotch, and one lottery ticket
Exporting our bad ideas
The fifty-dollar scratch-off game
Scratch-off ripoff revisited
Scratch-off ripoff
One, two, three, what are we selling the Lottery for?
A back door to more gambling?
Like father, like son
Lobbyist connections: Not just for vaccine orders!
Pretty much all you need to know about the Lottery selloff plan
Would you buy that?
Privatize the lottery?


Just call me Coach (1)
Rainout!


K-Mart Kiddie Roundup (7)
Council to vote on K-Mart settlement payments
More K-Mart suits dismissed
Two down, one to go for K-Mart settlement
Settlement reached in K-Mart Roundup lawsuits
K-Mart lawsuits: Still proceeding
Bradford still part of K-Mart lawsuit


Killer D's (1)
Redistricting symposium


Legal matters (31)
Impeach Jay Bybee
Johnny Sutton resigns
The next US Attorney in Houston
Supreme Court declines to hear TDP's appeal in voting machine suit
Utah AG wants to sue BCS
From the Department of Bad Ideas
The Third Court soap opera
Tort reform for me, but not for thee
"Hiding in the bushes" might have been a sign this was not a good thing to do
Judge rules Texas' bilingual education is inadequate
SCOTUS strikes down "Jessica's Law"
Hotel tax lawsuit goes class-action
Lawsuit filed to overturn tort reform amendment
At least one expert speaks about the grand jury lawsuit
Medina grand jurors sue to make information public
The Lege versus The Supremes
Observer versus DPS in court today
Update on the DPS/Observer kerfuffle
More tort "reform" commentary
On nominating judges
How about that tort reform?
SCOTUS to take up voter ID laws
Saw 'em off, I don't care
Probate court
Once again with jury duty
Why you should listen to your attorney
COPA struck down again
Perry sued over HPV order
More on the TXU ruling
Perry's TXU order shot down
Charges against Scheffey dropped


Local politics (300)
More on the City Council redistricting lawsuit dismissal
City Council redistricting lawsuit dismissed
City takes aim at more SOBs
Graduation rates
Outside agitation
Mayor White's final budget
We need more early voting locations
Help choose the next HISD Superintendent
HISD: Not must-see TV
Hey, remember when we were gonna reform county ethics?
Casey on City Council redistricting
Vasquez responds to Coleman and Hernandez
From the "Silver Linings" department
HISD to broadcast some meetings
Making reregistration easier
Them's good eatin'
"Houston first"
More on the deputy drivers
Driver!
Search openly
More SJL rumors
Interview with Vidal Martinez and John Castillo
The Census and City Council redistricting
A tale of two Orlandos
More on the city council redistricting lawsuit
District Clerk update
Lawsuit filed to force city to redistrict
SJL rumors
Saavedra to step down
Round and round we go with City Council redistricting
CIP meeting for District H
Here we go again with City Council redistricting
As The Court Turns
Judge sides with Garcia on fired employees
The state of the city 2009
We'll have the Treasurer to kick around awhile longer
Garcia talks recruitment again
Saavedra backs off magnet transportation plan
Sheriff Garcia asks for more recruits
Meet the new bosses
RIP, Penthouse Club
Voter registration separation
One for a million
Make your check payable to
Vasquez officially selected to replace Bettencourt
More on Leo Vasquez
On the agenda for Commissioners Court
Bettencourt deadline looms
More on magnet schools
More Bettencourt
Magnet school transportation
Commissioners Court starts considering replacements for Bettencourt
Still more on Bettencourt
City projects lower revenues
The Mayor's Austin agenda
More racist emails surface
Lloyd Kelley update
You won't need to register that bike
The ethics plan finally gets introduced
Ibarra brothers sue Lloyd Kelley
Et tu, Mike?
Plaintiff against Sheriff's office no-billed
Voter registration may not reach 2004 levels in Harris County
City wins billboard lawsuit
Mayor White: Not so fast on that plant permit
HISD versus Saavedra
Public defender plan to be reviewed
One less SOB
The County Board of Ethics, for what it's worth
Online disclosure
Eversole looking over his shoulder
City Council spending
The city of Houston versus the strip clubs
Appraisal lawsuits
How many eligible voters are there?
Registering voters
Charitable political contributions
Where's your report, Chuck?
Hotze loses again
Mayor White challenges the EPA
How much overtime is too much?
Them that has the gold gets the patrols
Deputies arrest plaintiff in suit against Sheriff's office
Sheriff apologizes for racist emails
Turn that thing up!
More from the Sheriff
Council passes the budget
Another strip club lawsuit
Council's budget wishes
Council gets its turn with the city budget
Another defendant in lawsuit against Sheriff's office
Sheriff's surveillance unit disbanded
Ibarras sue again
We should all have such critics
Commercial valuation baloney
Another front in the air quality battle
Commissioners Court gets upset over lease deals report
Build green and save some green
Probe of Sheriff's office urged
Way to be on top of it, Ed
Big Sheriff is watching you
The city budget for 2009
The DA's information office
Shocked? No, not really
More on the HCDE and Wolfe
HCDE trustees demand Wolfe's resignation
Kelley to get $1.4 million
Build green
HGLBT's Jenifer Pool achieves a milestone
Recycle or lose it
Ibarras must settle for their settlement
More on the Ibarras' request to withdraw settlement agreement
Ibarra brothers want to go back to court
Council approves billboard deal
New billboard ordinance delayed
KTRK wins injunction in Sheriff's email deletion case
Updated billboard reduction plan set for Council
City wins another round in revenue caps lawsuit
County disputes Kelly's fee demand
Pasty time
Judge fines Rosenthal for contempt
Council OKs contract with HOPE
HOPE ratifies its contract with the city
Let's review those deals
What's another hundred grand?
Kelly to county: Payment time
Another SOB setback
The new DA speaks
More on the new interim DA
Rosenthal's replacement coming
Deleting them doesn't make them disappear
HOPE and Houston come to an agreement
More on the Sheriff lawsuit settlement
Settlement in lawsuit against Sheriff's office
More Michael Wolfe
Rosenthal testifies in Sheriff's lawsuit
From the "Nice Work If You Can Get It" department
Plaintiffs score early points in civil suit against Sheriff's office
Lawsuit against Sheriff's office begins
Disclose!
Rosenthal's deal with the AG
Lawsuit filed over city's clean air ordinance
More on Rosenthal's resignation
Rosenthal resigns
More on the recusal motion for Judge Hoyt
Suit against Sheriff delayed
The Sheriff's emails
Rosenthal's recess
Judge calls a halt to the Rosenthal hearings
Don't delete those emails!
Last word on Louie Welch
More on former Mayor Welch
RIP, Louie Welch
The state of the city 2008
Countywide smoking ban proposed
And the Sheriff's office gets in the email deletion act
Feds widening local investigation
County sues builders over "bandit" signs
DA investigating incident involving Borris Miles
The sheriff's new home
Beware the builders
Houston City Council Committee Assignments
Online campaign filings for county officials
One year after for Orlando
Barbs and bouquets, but mostly barbs
Is it about to get worse for Chuck?
Inauguration Recap
Two for terminating term limits
Sports Authority chair ousted
Rosenthal's apology in the news
Chuck's curious statement
Billboard battle delayed again
Why, Chuck, you sly devil
V.O.T.E.R. meeting next week
Billboard ordinance gets put off till next year
An HCDE smackdown
Developing new rules
More on HOPE and the HEC
Questioning the commissioners' campaign spending
HOPE versus the city over 9-1-1 ads
Time to terminate term limits
Cleanup can be done
Will the Mayor sail smoothly in his last term?
Fort Bend GOP update
FBGOP in limbo
Fort Bend GOP leadership quits
Mayor to polluters: Clean up or else
HOPE rally
Blog My Wage
HOPE-ing for higher wages
Emmett: No lawsuit yet
Council approves Woodlands deal
Council to vote on Woodlands deal today
Token tax cut passes
Judge narrows sign ordinance injunction
HOPE and CHIP
Park fees ordinance passes Council
City asks for narrowing of billboard injunction
Form-based planning
City gets slapped in billboard battle
An HISD threefer
Airport concessions contract extended
Billboard battle
Food fight upcoming
Miya steps on toes
What's so bad about a food fight?
HOPE in Houston
Chang named District Clerk
District Clerk appointee to be named today
How will the Woodlands govern itself?
Smoke-free Sugar Land
It's Time For HISD's "Reach Out To Dropouts" Effort
Anti-smoking ban lawsuit dismissed
Bacarisse to step down?
Burge departs Sports Authority
Can This Name Change Be Stopped?
Strike three for the SOBs
Paying for green space
You there! Put that cigarette out!
Arguing over the 1997 Houston map
The next (last?) SOB appeal gets underway
Council vote on Center may come today
Lawsuit filed over smoking ban
Harris County bond vote coming
HISD asks for bond money
Hotze lawsuit against city over revenue caps tossed
Who's your PAC?
Nick Lampson In The House
GHCVB still suffering leadership woes
Council passes wind power proposal
City Council legal spending
More on the now-online city campaign finance reports
City campaign finance reports now available online
Wind power for the city
County bonds and staffing issues
On the SOB battle
Real preservation laws coming soon?
Day labor center will live to see another year
Houston City Hall Water Crisis Averted
"I don't feel tardy"
The Mayor and the veterans
For that kind of revenue stream, I'd be a Pepper
Day Labor centers
Pension deal reached
Hilary Green
More on the county bonds proposal
County bonds coming
"Where's Orlando?" update
Pension still pending
No safe harbor for SOBs in Harris County
The new trash fees
New trash days coming for some
Strip clubs get an stay of execution
The taxes of sin
Budget yes, pension plan not yet
Response to Mayor's response
Mayor disputes pension story
More city pension woes
Here come the bikini bars
City to SOBs: Move it or lose it
The cost of the anti-SOB battle
Michael Berry interview
"Pro Tem Four" to be tried together
Open letter to Mayor White about Houston Media Source
Michael Berry, radio mogul
Strip club crackdown coming
Community meeting for TSU
Pearland kids get anti-smoking measure on the ballot
The Chron talks trash
Read the reports
There's no such thing as free trash
Looks like Orlando will escape the legislative axe
Possibly the last thing I'll say about Ed Emmett for awhile
The Ed Era begins
For whom the door revolves
Are you ready for Ed?
No Council redistricting till 2010
Say "Bye-bye, Bob" on Tuesday
Bill filed to prevent future annexation of The Woodlands
Council approves WiFi contract
More on Woodfill and Eckels
Woodfill wants to pick Eckels' successor
Pay or play
Will Eckels' departure be a twofer?
Eckels: It was all about me
City Council redistricting: Back on the agenda?
Eckels: "Who cares what you think?"
Eckels says "So long, suckers"
Eckels to tell us what he wants to be when he grows up today
Eckels to give State of the County address
City wins strip club lawsuit
Eckels contemplates resignation
You can sort of still smoke 'em in Bellaire
The state of the city speech
The state of the city 2007
You can still smoke 'em in Bellaire
Tag!
Radack v. Sanchez
Is this the end for the Harris County Treasurer's office?


Looking Forward to 2008 (25)
Looking Forward to 2008: Doug Wieskopf
Looking Forward to 2008: Gus Allen
Looking Forward to 2008: Jay Crossley
Looking Forward to 2008: Martha Griffin
Looking Forward to 2008: Paula Harris
Looking Forward to 2008: Maria Gonzalez
Looking Forward to 2008: Stephanie Stradley
Looking Forward to 2008: Matt Stiles
Looking Forward to 2008: Rep. Ellen Cohen
Looking Forward to 2008: Noel Freeman
Looking forward to 2008: Stace Medellin
Looking forward to 2008: Matt Glazer
Looking forward to 2008: Ed Davis
Looking Forward to 2008: David Baldwin
Looking forward to 2008: Rebecca White and Meggin Baxter
Looking forward to 2008: Christof Spieler
Looking Forward to 2008: Jay Aiyer
Looking forward to 2008: Jeff Balke
Looking forward to 2008: Hale Stewart
Looking Forward to 2008: Jeff Caynon
Looking Forward to 2008: Barbara Radnofsky
Looking Forward to 2008


Music (108)
Saturday video break: Literally!
Friday random ten: Get your game on
Friday random ten: The state you're in
Threatened by opera
Friday random ten: Couldn't stand getting metaphysical
Faking it convincingly
Friday random ten: Now with more randomness
"Quality Rock"
Saturday video break
Friday random ten: The whole enchilada
Friday random ten: If at first you don't secede...
Friday random ten: When the going gets tough, the tough download some free tunes
Friday random ten: Good songs
Friday random ten: Once more to the well
Friday random ten, Hawaiian style
Friday random ten: Life is skittles and life is beer
Your weekend moment of Zen
Friday random ten: Special guest star edition
Friday random ten: You say "70s throwback" as if it were a bad thing
Friday random ten: The eighties strike back
Friday random ten: You say it's your birthday
Friday random ten: Beginning to see the light
Friday random ten: Flight of the Genius
Friday random ten: Still more new music
Friday random ten: We the people
Friday random ten: New music, take two
Bye-bye, DRM
Friday random ten: New year, new music
Friday random ten: My sister's list
Seeking iTunes help again
Friday random ten: Sleigh bells ring
Friday random ten: Karaoke!
Friday random ten: Let's get groovy
Friday random ten: No Genius for you!
Friday random ten: A little jazzy, but not too much
Friday random ten - TGIF
Friday random ten: Don't cross the streams, but do cross the genres
Friday random ten: And now a short break from politics
Friday random ten: Putting it all together
Friday random ten: That's more like it
Friday random ten: Blues Genius
Friday random ten: How station managers do it these days
Friday random ten: Genius!
RIP, Cary Winscott
Houston: Hot or not for college grads?
It means "Suave and Debonair"
"I got a leather from my Fred"
Fight for Rice, Rice fight on...
RIP, Bo Diddley
Robinson versus Peveto, the continuing story
"Kuff and the Buttheads"
RIP, Danny Federici
Friday random ten: Live in concert
Top 100 novelty songs
Springsteen!
Oh Danny Boy, you can come back now
Friday random ten: Genealogy time
Friday random ten: Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
Friday random ten: Pearland attacks
Oh Danny Boy, please go away
Friday random ten: Post-primocalyptic edition
The death of radio, part 572
Friday random ten: Debate this!
Friday random ten: Super Friday!
Friday random ten: Actual randomness!
Friday random ten: Same name, different song
Friday random ten: Three times a cover
Friday random ten: Cover-two
Friday random ten: Cover me
How I spent (most of) my iTunes money
Help me spend some money at the iTunes store
As always, Merry Christmas, Mel Torme
Not silent enough night
Reports on the effects of the smoking ban
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling...again and again
The Lizards and Consumers Union team up again
Bruuuuuuuuce!
Less local, more national
Cactus Records resurrected
Sing for the cure
Jack comes to the radio dial
"National Brotherhood Week"
iPod noise pollution
Walton and Johnson move to 950 AM
Talk radio changes coming
Don't stop downloadin'
Friday random music question
CD Death Watch: One more Christmas
Selling out
Digital singles
Talking 'bout my generation
Friday random ten: The group participation edition
Spinal Tap!
Monday random thirty
Friday random ten: The other side of the CD shelf
Friday random ten: The "Better Late Than Never" edition
Friday random ten: The next playlist
A radio blast from the past
Friday random eleven
Salvaging my lost music
Friday random ten
"Pancake Mountain"
A few things about my iPod
Kids' music
CD death watch: Car stereos


National news (197)
Green and Gonzalez get plaudits for climate change bill
More on Gene Green and climate change
Voting right on climate change, take two
Voting right on climate change
Juan Garcia takes a job in the Obama administration
Specter switches
Now how much would you pay to get rid of those immigrants?
A letter to the President
Two immigration stories
Lampson to NASA?
Which Republicans do you have in mind for that?
Slowdown at the Mint
That other budget
The HTA and the Times
Will we get a piece of the stimulus?
Handmade Toy Alliance wins a stay
Healthcare Workshop
How much would you pay for that post office?
Let's always elect our Senators
California breathin'
The border camera boondoggle blues
And now the real work begins
S-CHIP passes the House again
Open Letter to Artisans and Authors Regarding CPSIA
More on the Handmade Toy Alliance
The Handmade Toy Alliance
The border fence versus nature
Yet another Farmers Branch lawsuit
El Paso versus the border fence
Tough times for recycling
Gen. Shinseki to head Veterans Affairs
CHC pushes Noriega for Veterans Affairs
Perry to whine to Obama about the environment
Pardon me?
Noriega to Washington?
The border fence boondoggle blues
Count everybody
License to drive
Fence finds funding
Is the light beginning to dawn on Farmers Branch?
Those chickens haven't hatched yet. You sure you want to count them?
I got those bad asset blues
The bailout
Rally for health care reform
Farmers Branch restrained again
Get cracking on those new greenbacks!
Border fence: Now over budget, too!
Once more to the courthouse for Farmers Branch
Final judgment against Farmers Branch
An end to recorded sales calls?
Self-deportation not a hit
Cornyn takes a stand
The chef was a spy
From the "National laboratory for bad government" department
RIP, Bill Gwatney
PETA and the fence
Parks and Wildlife versus the border fence
UT-Brownsville wins concessions on border fence
John Edwards in town
Culberson: Let me revise and extend those remarks
Check your citizenship
From the "Things are tough all over" department
Culberson v. NASA
Why can't they advertise?
Conditional medicine
Steffy on the Pickens Plan
Hopefully the last thing to say about the Twitter battle
Capuano responds to Culberson
More on the Twitter battle in Congress
Pickens' plan for wind and natural gas
Use Twitter for good, not for evil
RIP, Jesse Helms
The Experiment Continues to Illuminate
And now they arrest the bosses
AMA runs ad criticizing anti-Medicare vote
Why arrest the bosses when you can arrest the workers?
Supreme Court sanctions the fence
The immigration problem
Now that's a burial
Chertoff goes on the offensive and gets offensive
Judge strikes down Farmers Branch anti-immigrant law
Remake that greenback!
Pigeon wars!
Border coalition sues Homeland Security over the fence
Name one, John!
California Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage
What's the matter with Dallas suburbs?
The "virtual fence" gains fans
ICE versus employers
Once again with the penny
RIP, Mildred Loving
That other border
Give it away now
If you don't have the cash, don't get the disease
Workers Memorial Day
So much for the "virtual fence"
Border fence lawsuit update
At long last, he unites us
Breaching the fence
If the law is in your way, ignore it
The case against the penny
Some border wall lawsuits dropped
Now that's a high-rise
El Paso puts up a roadblock to the border fence
The new fiver
New penny coming?
Border wall lawsuit ruling
"The next slums"
Forward, spring!
You can't put a fence through a golf course!
Meet Antonio Villaraigosa
Suits and countersuits over the border fence
Another Farmers Branch lawsuit
The southern storms and how to help
A change of direction for the border wall?
Farmers Branch asks judge to okay new ordinance
First round to the government in border access lawsuits
Hooray for the No Call List!
Farmers Branch does it again
Feds blindside Eagle Pass, file other suits
Another step towards the cliff for Farmers Branch
Feds sue Eagle Pass over land access for border fence
Memorial service for Joan Ehrlich
Hutchison and the border fence
New Presidential dollar coins coming
Border fence protest in McAllen
Memo to the netroots on immigration
Feds set to sue landowners over access for border fence
RIP, Evel Knievel
Bye-bye, Trent
Border webcams to come online again
Madison coin makes its debut
From the Unintended Consequences Department
Farmers Branch loses another one in court
Border mayors tell feds to stay off their property
The Catholic Church versus the border wall
Farmers Branch, this may be your life
Border fence details now available
The five-spot gets a makeover
Like An Episode Of 24, Only It Really Happened
The progressive blogosphere cares about the Jena 6
Lawsuit against updated Georgia voter ID law dismissed
DOJ opposes net neutrality
Another year, another dollar coin design
The magic C-note
Fixing the fence
I don't see any dissent. Do you?
Why does the President want children to be sick?
Cater to me or else!
Hands Across El Rio
Rover
About those border cameras...
Cornyn still flipflopping on the fence
Against it before he was for it
Lampson op-ed on Farm Bill
Judge overturns Hazelton anti-immigrant law
Texas portion of border fence construction to begin next year
Border fence buyer's remorse for Cornyn
Farmers Branch seeks a makeover
Bush Promises To Veto CHIP Expansion
But, Do We Need To Stock Up On Duct Tape?
Border sheriffs say "Where's our money?"
Send Bush A Birthday Card
No diapers!
Fly like an eagle
Farmers Branch and Hazelton
Not so clever Hans
Steve Murdock gets a new gig
Happy Loving Day
Restraining order extended in Farmers Branch
Stop the damn fence!
TRO granted in Farmers Branch lawsuit
Farmers Branch lawsuits filed
Forty-one cents
More border fence opposition
News flash: Border wall still hated on the border
Virginia Tech
Round Rock immigration protest lawsuit settled
The fraud of voter fraud
Lampson update
Won't you be my forever stamp?
Get well soon, Rep. Lampson
The politics of the Saint Patrick's Day Parade
More silliness in Farmer's Branch
When you've lost Cornyn...
Are you ready to spring forward?
In politics, as in the comics, no one is ever truly dead
Springing forward sooner
TAB comes out against immigrant bashing
News flash: People still like the greenback
Property values up, crime down in Farmer's Branch
Farmer's Branch tries again
New dollar coin set to arrive in Houston this week
Farmer's Branch backs down
Smoking bans make headway nationwide
Border mayors say "NO!" to the fence


Other punditry (32)
Falkenblog
Chronicle cuts
Red, white, blue, and hopefully back
Public Service Announcements department
RIP, Terry Hayes
The case for freight rail
Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker Series Doubleheader
Don't mess with Juanita
The new Examiner
Netroots Nation
Holiday weekend link dump
Weekend link dump
Still more me on your TV
Ree-C has her say
Thoughts on "Houston Have Your Say"
At the TV studio
More me on your TV
Big media me
Texas Monthly and me
Let's debate that
A perfectly cromulent neighborhood
RIP, Fort Bend Now
Ya no puede caminar
But what will I read in the checkout lines?
Great show! You're fired!
Cragg Hines is retiring
New gig for Mary Beth Harrell
How many more signs of the Apocalypse do we need?
Great moments in publishing
Freeway blogging, Houston-style
What he said
Media fight!


Other sports (148)
Dynamo moving forward
More heat on the BCS
Mutombo says his career is over
Women's Professional Soccer
Dynamo Stadium funding almost secured
The World Cup in Houston?
The Tour de Houston
The Lege versus the BCS
Reliant roof repaired
One more step for Dynamo Stadium
Utah AG wants to sue BCS
Thor goes pro
From the "Two wrongs don't make a right" department
UTSA football
Commissioners agree to Dynamo Stadium funding
RIP, Sammy Baugh
"BCS champion", not "national champion"
RIP, Houston Comets
The Junior Olympics are coming
Another Final Four for Houston
The Dynamo Stadium rally
Dynamo Stadium and Commissioners Court
One more for the Dynamo Stadium bandwagon
Still looking for more Final Fours
And speaking of Dynamo Stadium
Hey, remember when we were gonna build a soccer stadium?
Tell me what that big yellow thing in the sky is again
Clement to Dillard for the score
RIP, Don Haskins
Hakeem the Dream
Shame on you, Richard Justice
Will the county kick in for Dynamo Stadium?
No women's Final Four for Houston
Wanna buy the Comets?
Comets for sale
Brett who?
Robertson renovation
Run, don't walk
NBA India
Not too fast, not too slow
RIP, Dan Cook
Sexism and sports writing
Cricket experiments with instant replay
Van Gundy disputes Donaghy
Was the fix in against the Rockets?
Houston vies for the Women's Final Four
The best argument ever against the intentional walk
The Comets at Reliant
Time for the Super Bowl Shuffle again
HomeForTheDynamo.com
The booster club advantage
Bad franchise!
Gas prices and sports fans
TSU-Dynamo update
Patriots' Spygate moves closer to resolution
TSU talks to Dynamo about sharing the stadium
More on the MLS-Mayor kerfuffle
MLS versus the Mayor
Hakeem in the Hall
Rice to hire Cal's Braun as basketball coach
Reliant regional finals get kudos
The sellout that wasn't
Is that all there is?
NCAA regionals: Did we mention there are still tickets available?
The Sweet Sixteen comes to town
Jonestown and the NCAA tournament
Get better, OJ!
A long way up, a short way down
Rice fires Willis Wilson
Do you deserve this stadium?
So long, Sheryl
Parker on the soccer stadium
CTC to city: Move that stadium
Yow!
Dynamo Stadium land deal vote tagged
City moves to buy land for Dynamo Stadium
Post-Super Bowl blogging
Bidding for another Super Bowl
More Final Fours!
WNBA reaches labor deal with the players
The land for Dynamo Stadium
More on Dynamo Stadium
Dynamo Stadium appears imminent
What if the BCS ran the NFL?
Halftime blogging
The streak
Comets to move to Reliant Arena
When billionaires fight
How to do a college football playoff
Briles goes to Baylor
The Dynamo will not play at the Dome
Tulsa files complaint against the MOB
More cheering for Dynamo Stadium
Sorry, not funny
Dynamo Stadium: If not now, then when?
I'd call it a game-changer, wouldn't you?
Lateral!
For whom you gonna root?
Franchione the capitalist
Are you ready for some football in San Antonio?
Talk about your bad polls...
Is that your uniform number or your age?
RIP, Eddie Griffin
Yao gets hitched
Congratulations anyway
Dog lovers weigh in on Vick
The return of the Franchise
Michael Vick indicted
The McLane factor
Michael Harris
Dynamo Stadium deadline extended
Sports guy talk radio
More on J. Fred Duckett
RIP, J. Fred Duckett
The city of Houston's top five athletes
Coaches, schmoaches
Another football league?
Super Bowl XLV to be in Arlington
Rockets hire Adelman
You got yours, now we get ours
Making the case for Dynamo Stadium
An open letter to Les Alexander
Dynamo Stadium deal being negotiated
Dynamo: Moving near the Astros?
Where all the draftees are pretty, and every class is above average
Vroom! Vroooommmm!
"All you need is glove"
RIP, Eddie Robinson
Van Chancellor elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
Expanding the NCAA tournament
The NBA draft lottery
How to run the Final Four
The Worst NCAA Division I Mascots
The Sugar Land option for the Dynamo
Gus Wortham: Still for golf
Dynamo Stadium: Not on the golf course
NCAA to change clock rules again
Comets promote Thompson to replace Chancellor
RIP, Eddie Feigner
Autry Court v2.0
Dynamo Stadium?
You may already be the Super Bowl champion
Sale of Comets completed
WNBA to approve Comets sale
Rice finds a new coach
Summer Williams
Todd Graham goes back to Tulsa
The first sign of a successful program: Coach poaching


Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (404)
Red light camera ban appears dead
Budget heads to the Governor
Houston extends red light camera contract
Anti-Metro amendment officially dead
Would-be Metro killer outs himself
Senate passes TxDOT sunset bill, red light cameras not dead yet
Anti-Metro amendment removed
Westpark zealots try to pull a fast one
Skinning a cat: Alternate methods
Intermodal Transit Center update
The squiggle
The Senate TxDOT sunset bill is not the House TxDOT sunset bill
Roundabout
More on the House attempt to kill red light cameras
More on Metro's costs
Metro's costs and critics
Sunsetting TxDOT
You kids hang up and drive!
Senate approves SUPERTRAIN study
Is the Lege going back on red light cameras?
More on the SUPERTRAIN
Prius problems
Is it that bogged down already?
Here comes the SUPERTRAIN
Katy Freeway managed lanes set to open
Taking taxation aversion to its logical extreme
OK, you can use some stimulus money on rail
Red light camera revenues unspent
Stimulus? What stimulus?
A better idea for the Grand Parkway
For the money, I sure hope so
Commissioners Court OKs Grand Parkway Segment E work
Crosstown (rail) traffic
Activists tell TxDOT to slow down and be open
Morrison speaks on the Grand Parkway
Metro approves contract with Parsons
Metro to vote on rail contract
Grand Parkway Segment E gets a go-ahead
A step forward for Houston-Galveston rail
The whys and wherefores of bus rapid transit
Metro vote on light rail contract delayed
Some action on the rail construction front
Multiways
Red light camera watch: League City
So much for the Fort Bend-Medical Center shuttle
More transportation conversation
We'll always have bottlenecks
Over/under
A piece of the stimulus pie for Metro
And the answer is...more cameras (maybe)
Critics claim camera study shenanigans
A SUPERTRAIN for Texas?
More on streetcars and sidewalks
Now how much would you pay for that toll road?
The case for freight rail
Pennies from HCTRA
Streetcars and the next step for Houston transit
National ban on phoning while driving urged
Washington Quiet Zone
RIP, TTC
Five years of the Main Street Line
Was the red light camera study flawed?
Houston's red light camera numbers
Dude, where's my train?
Is high-speed rail in Texas' future?
Lawsuit filed over red light camera study
More red light cameras for The Woodlands
Has driving peaked?
Bike racks on trains: Not looking good
Fort Worth considers streetcars
TxDOT says: We need money!
Galveston takes a step forward on commuter rail
Privatized parking
TxDOT asks to be stimulated
Gas prices down, ridership up
The long-awaited red light camera study
Red light camera study coming
Metro ads
The Chron on the red light camera car registration plan
Electric cars
More school zone cellphone banning
Precinct analysis: The Richmond Rail Effect 2008
Pay that ticket or you can't register your car
Metro asks for help with its loans
Don't text and drive in Austin
The Katy's grand re-opening
Hold that registration!
The traffic lights are working again
No texting while driving in California
Raising the driving age
REV Houston
The coming regional transit authority
Good news and bad news for bike riders
What we've got here is failure to communicate
Zipcars
"But the pension fund was just sitting there!"
From the "Heads I win, tails you lose" department
Did you remember to hang up and drive in West U?
Scarbrough lawsuit against Metro dismissed
Don't get too attached to that house
Good news coming for Metro?
Bridgin' it
How the Katy Freeway toll lanes will work
Car pooling
That pillow's gonna cost ya
The Fort Bend-Medical Center shuttle
H-GAC explains it all to you
Bike rage
Bye-bye, trees
Metro East End meeting
An alternate suggestion for Kirby
Metro makes change to east end of Universities line
More motorcycles
Metro gets another approval from the feds
The bypass blues
Time to say good-bye to the Kirby trees
"It took me sixteen hours to get to LA"
Another step forward for Metro
A rail plan for Central Texas
Using less gas
Leavin' on a balloon-powered lawn chair
Getting the new commuter rail lines right
Can you drive 55?
Boot this!
A delay for you is an opportunity for someone else
Virtual speed bumps
Upper Kirby versus Trees for Houston
Meeting to discuss commuter rail study
East End rail opening ceremony
Gray on Kirby
The z-word and the airports
Harrisburg line groundbreaking Thursday
New frontiers in multitasking
Mayor White talks transit
Metro and the East End
More red light cameras in the works
More on the Council Metro vote
San Antonio airport expansion
Where will those new commuter rail lines go?
Council approves Metro consent plan
The transit network effect
Demand for mass transit growing
Council delays Metro vote
TxDOT rethinks I-69
Commuter rail lines recommended
Update on Metro v. Scarborough
It's hard out there for a pickup
The impending bike shortage
Sunsetting TxDOT
Commissioners Court to vote on Grand Parkway segment
Council fusses at Metro over rail details
A change of direction at TxDOT?
Metro to hold open house on Southeast corridor today
Red light camera watch: Hello, Austin!
A loophole for red light runners?
Austin light rail hits delays
Let's hear it for nerdmobiles!
Lose that highway
Slow down, you move too fast
Bike to work
Update on the East End rail routes
News flash: Suburbs have traffic, too
Higher gas prices, more transit riders
Metro changes contractors
Can anyone stop the TTC?
Austin to try again for light rail
Kirby Drive pain to be prolonged
Harrisburg rail resolution progressing
SafeClear wins in court
More on Metro costs revisited
West U makes school zone cellphone ban official
Watch those construction costs
San Antonio to jump on board the school zone cellphone ban bandwagon
Metro costs revisited
West U stands firm against AT&T
Grade separation for Harrisburg in the works
More on Katy tollway congestion pricing
Get ready for congestion pricing on I-10
Toll road cameras expand in scope
AT&T responds to the West U cellphone ordinance
AT&T pushes back on West U school-zone cellphone ban
Higher cost projections for new light rail lines
Freight rail versus light rail
More cameras, fewer tickets
West U cellphone ban ordinance passed
More on the West U cellphone ban proposal
Will West U follow Highland Park?
Feds get on board with Metro
Lubbock ceases red light camera operations
The soccer stadium and the downtown grid
Addressing the rail question for the soccer stadium
It's not about the fares, it's about the service
Kubosh packs it in
Could be worse - could (still) be Austin
Evaluating the County Judge candidates on rail
Red light camera rumors
Come on and take a free ride
TxDOT: A billion here, a billion there...
How much was that freeway supposed to cost?
Bacarisse on Metro
TXDoT gives Texans a say in new license plate design
Trees on Kirby may be doomed after all
Red light camera watch: Hello, Amarillo!
The soccer stadium and the rail line
Hike and bike, train and detain
Chat with Metro
The homestretch for the Katy Freeway expansion
Red light cameras come to Round Rock
An update on Metro and the FTA
Bikes on the trains
RIP, Ric Williamson
Tunnel envisioning
From the "Why would you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" department
Metro says they'll start construction on time anyway
The Hardy Toll Road extension
FTA says Metro screwed up
Please present your BlackBerry to the boarding agent as your row is called
More on the FTA's demands to Metro
FTA tells Metro to resubmit paperwork for funding
A private Grand Parkway toll road?
Red light tickets jump in October
An invitation from RichmondRail.org
Do red light cameras work?
More on transit options
What if they're not a cash cow?
A suggestion before construction begins
People like transit
Commuter to rail to Galveston
Fiesta versus TxDOT
Highland Park bans cellphone talking while driving in school zones
More on the red light camera ruling
Where'd that red light camera money go?
Kubosh loses in court
Why people subscribe to conspiracy theories
Hype versus truth regarding Metro
Could be worse - could be Austin
Who rides the train?
Freeway expansion forces closure of Fiesta
Hang up and drive in school zones
Sugar Land's red light cameras roll out
Light rail funding
Red light camera money
Still work to be done before the rail lines get built
Metro's five year plan
I-45 Coalition touts tunnel at City Hall
Where the U-Line goes in the east
Metro picks Cummins-Elgin option
Get ready for the U-Line decision
Don't forget the east end of the line
October 18th is U-Line Day
Big TxDOT is watching you
Handicapped-parking activists unite
Ten...nine...eight...
How much is not waiting for that train to pass worth to you?
Watch those right-on-red turns starting today
TxDOT claims poverty
I-45 Coalition website and status update
DPS' quixotic fight against the Observer
Fly the WiFi-enabled skies
Traffic congestion increases. Film at 11.
Rail on Westheimer?
Report from the Upper Kirby meeting
Last call for comments to Metro on Universities line
Crossley on the Kirby construction
More on the upcoming Upper Kirby renovation
The spread of red light cameras: Sugar Land and Missouri City
Everything you wanted to know about Kirby Drive reconstruction
More on TxDOT's PR offensive
EZ Tag traffic down
Tolling the interstates?
Q&A on the Universities line
Council approves new red light camera rules
And speaking of red light cameras
Red light camera enforcement comes to The Woodlands
U-line DEIS hearing post-mortem
Trees and the Universities line
"Did not!" won't get you out of a red light camera ticket
The Eureka corridor
Watch those right-on-red turns
How much would you pay for that advertising blitz?
Where will the stations be?
More on the Universities DEIS
The right way to go
Chron story on Universities DEIS
University Corridor Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
A footnote on the new Costco and light rail
Asking questions about the red light cameras
SafeClear renewal pending
Development along the Main Street line
HOT or not?
The eight habits of highly successful commuter rail lines
Metro to discuss HOV/HOT lanes with TxDOT today
Get yer HOT lanes here
More on the 290 widening
Last public comment event for US290 widening today
Extreme commuting, Texas style
More toll roads, higher tolls
Amarillo says red light cameras are effective
Bunker Hill widening revisited
A tour of the freight trains
Take the train to the plane (someday)
More on tollway congestion pricing
Waving At Sugar Land
No rail along I-10?
Next time, ask Tory first
Red light cameras: Still more to come
We have congested streets? Why wasn't I told?
The Ten Commandments of driving
Congestion pricing? What congestion pricing?
Backlash on Westpark Toll Road fees
Keep (your car) off the grass
On not seeing the congestion for the cars
An interchange? What a concept!
Framed!
From the "Timing Is Everything" Department
Will the dissing ever end for Pluto?
Still more red light cameras coming
Meeting on H-GAC transportation plan tonight
On the new red light camera (not quite yet) law
Three transit stories
Metro's partnership
North Line BRT groundbreaking in July
Weakened toll road moratorium finally passes
Anti-rail lawsuit details
What about the red light camera bills?
A satisfying driving experience
Anti-rail lawsuit ruling
Speed trap camera bill goes to Governor Perry
Toll road moratorium in limbo
Anti-rail "lawsuit" hearing
Amended Carona bill passes out of the House
More toll road maneuvering
Still more red light cameras
HB1892 veto coming
Metro "lawsuit" hearing on Tuesday
Metro gets some corridors started
2035 Regional Transportation Plan
No commuter rail from Intermodal Terminal?
Transportation roundup
No speed trap cameras
Perry gets the toll road blues
State Auditor busts TxDOT
A new toll road concern
And the toll road confrontation is on
Scarbrough's petition
Uptown corridor planning workshop
Freeway noise at Memorial Park
Metro response to "lawsuit" coming soon
Toll road moratorium bill passes from Senate
A rail threefer
Urban corridor planning events this weekend
More on the anti-rail "lawsuit"
Kirby storm sewer update
Lawsuit filed against Metro, sort of
Next time, run a red light
Toll road moratorium passes House
Speed trap!
Toll road moratorium passes Senate committee
Red light camera bills pass out of Senate
No red light cameras yet for Alamo Heights
Red light cameras fully enabled in Balcones Heights
To toll or not to toll
Reminder about Metro town hall meetings
Been waitin' on the bus all day
Carona puts the brakes on toll road moratorium
Funding pro-transit candidates
The Mobility Corps
Connecting Uptown to Downtown
Meetings scheduled for University Corridor
Toll road moratorium
Wrong way driving
One more article about Culberson's town hall meeting
Kubosh prepares to sue
Toll lanes coming for SH-288
State auditor criticizes Trans Texas Corridor
More reactions to the Culberson town hall meeting
Rowdy rail gathering
Last word on Old Spanish Trail
Exploring the Neartown options
Neartown Association endorses Cummins route for Universities line
Still more on Old Spanish Trail
Once more with toll road math
Red light camera study in Philadelphia
Same phony attack, new location
A quick update on Old Spanish Trail
Metro responds to North Line complaints
Some transportation-related items
North line complaints
FTA funding for Metro
Supporting Richmond Rail the practical way
Red light camera collections: Better than first reported
Rail options at UH
TxDOT's lobby money
A more pointed response regarding Richmond rail
Metro's HOV crackdown
In which I vent about Old Spanish Trail
Point/not-quite-counterpoint on rail
What is HCTRA up to?
Residents want West Alabama put back the way it was
System overview and downtown BRT
And more red light cameras have been installed
On red lights and yellow lights
Red light cameras come to Bexar County
Debating red light cameras


Scandalized! (85)
Miles found not guilty
Third Court absolves itself again
Christine DeLay gets subpoenaed
Rep. Green requests lawsuit dismissal
The Kino factor
TAB cops a plea
Rep. Green's mess
TPJ files complaint against "checks aren't cash" judge
TAB trial set
Abramoff sentenced
Only Republican judges think checks aren't cash
Interview with Cris Feldman
Will the checks clear DeLay?
Another loss in court for DeLay's cronies
Update on Vo's apartments
Miles indicted
How not to register a complaint
Hubert Vo
Hey, didn't you used to be Tom DeLay?
An Abramoff update
Eliot and Chuck
Spitzer
Shelley staffers cleared of sabotage charges
Is today the day Chuck testifies about the deleted emails?
The circus is coming to town
Where the DeLay case stands now
More on AG Abbott's entry into the Rosenthal saga
AG Abbott comes calling
Emmett calls for investigation of Rosenthal
Judge Emmett speaks
The case that started it all
Oh, those emails: Day 2
Oh, those emails
Why am I not surprised he'd be a slapper?
Still waiting for DeLay's day in court
Earle prepares for trial
CCA denies motion for rehearing
Feds subpoena Buckham payroll records
TAB indictment thrown out again
Corporations dropped from TAB lawsuit
In the matter of Corwin Teltschik
Feds knew about TYC, took no action
Reconsidering the motion to reconsider
Amicus brief filed to CCA on behalf of Earle request
Earle asks CCA to reconsider
Aiyer takes a plea
The reasoning behind the CCA's decision on DeLay
CCA upholds DeLay
Felony charge filed against Jay Aiyer
Feds keep circling around Tom DeLay
TYC update: Downsizing the wrong way
RIP, ARMPAC
Alabama-Coushatta settle with Abramoff
Is that all there is?
TYC: Indictments handed down on Brookins and Hernandez
TYC: Reynolds' removal sought
TYC: Kimbrough now conservator
TYC: On reviewing sentences
The BlackBerry Defense
TYC: Reform bills to come tomorrow
With former friends like these...
TYC: Alfonso Royal and email retention
TYC superintendant arrested
TYC: Another "correction" from Perry's office
Richie to Cornyn: Recuse yourself
No indictments in TYC cases yet
All that needs to be said about Tom DeLay's comeback tour
TYC: What did Perry's people know?
The do-nothing prosecutor
TYC: You can't quit just yet
The TYC "czar"
Tom DeLay's book
TYC: The feds may get involved
Bye-bye, TYC board
Today's TYC roundup
It all comes back to redistricting
A recent history of the TYC
TYC update: Hiring felons, and AG indifference
It's not just the youth facilities
Texas Ranger testimony on TYC
Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty
The cronyism never stops
Rent to own, Lege-style
Arguments before the CCA in the DeLay case
CCA will hear final DeLay appeals today


See, I do have a life! (41)
Happy Easter!
I say it's my birthday
Birthday party for Rick Noriega
Quit stealing my recyclables!
Yes, it really did snow in Houston last night
Nostalgia alert
Family photos
School days
A warning about downtown parking
Olivia the star (gazer)
The Answer
Audrey!
Have a holly, jolly Christmas
A Little Time With the Family
What I have to be thankful for this year
From the "Things My Parents Didn't Have To Deal With" Department
The happy Wanderers
A chip off the old block
My pneumonia experience
Home again
Give platelets
Happy Father's Day, you old coot
A moment of Audrey
Three!
Benefit for Mark Strawn tonight
Brush your teeth!
Reminder: Fundraiser for Mark Strawn
Fundraiser for Mark Strawn
Face time
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Blood has been given
Forty-one
At home with Audrey
Under the bili lights
Olivia meets Audrey
Announcing Audrey Elizabeth
Not the kind of article I need to be reading right about now
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
The road home (I hope)
Round and round we go


Show Business for Ugly People (176)
Big John versus El Rushbo and The Newt
Senate spikes McLeroy
Dems say they can block McLeroy
Perry's salvage job
The zombie nominee
What, me secede?
Whatever Ricky wants
Auditor's report on TYC
No sunset for SBOE
Bell lawsuit against Perry advances
Donations and appointments
Allen Fletcher
I hate you! I need disaster relief!
First they came for the science books...
I hate you! Now gimme some money!
I hate you! Please help me!
It would be OK with me if all those who favor it decide to leave
Texas secession: Views differ
Voter ID must be reviewed
"With Brinkley and Huntley describing contrapuntally the cities we have lost"
Perry walks back secession talk
Perry says "Look at me!"
Dems versus Vasquez
Not dead yet
It's the end of the world as Louie Gohmert knows it
"Play to extinction"
Cornymandias
Win some, lose some for science
Strengths and weaknesses fails
The "strengths and weaknesses" showdown
The dentist in charge
There is a solution, you just don't see it
On gerrymandering and partisanship
If you're going to reform it, reform it right
Pete Sessions and the Taliban
That Gallup poll of partisan preferences
So how's the state of our state?
The state of the state 2009
Lobby money
Chron coverage of yesterday's SBOE actions
Update on yesterday's evolution happenings
Evolution remains legal in Texas
You there! Stop evolving this minute!
Harris County GOP turns to the Internet
TRCC escapes the axe
Statesman calls on Dunbar to resign
TxDOT gets sunsetted
The Cynthia Chronicles
Is that really how much it costs?
More on the Hill survey
Poll shows Democrats gaining ground in Texas
SBOE urged to not weaken science standards
IBM is the new Accenture
Lone Star Times calls on Dunbar to apologize
Travis County Attorney investigating Dewhurst
Making financial disclosures public
Don't you know who I am?
TPJ files complaint against Dewhurst
Email secrecy, Alaska style
The "John Sharp Newspaper Speculation Mentioning Act of 2003"
In the box provided, he listed "Wealth"
Conventional coverage
Newspapers win against Perry in court
Where in the world is Rick Perry?
School board campaign finance reports
Still more elected offices
More elected offices
The Nation on the state of the state
Why not just register as a lobbyist and be done with it?
The state of electronic voting in Texas
Dallas City Council says "No loonies, please"
State secrets
Another year, another Secretary of State
Help Max crash the parties
Those grumpy Republicans
Still two-stepping
All I want for election season
On welcoming converts
KTRK interviews Texas DNC Rules Committee member
Settlement in vote suppression lawsuit against AG Abbott
The party to attend in Austin next week
Abbott's ambition
Abbott's partisan efforts
Gotta watch those nuns
New flash: Trial lawyers weren't the problem
News flash: Professors are people, too
Supreme Court upholds Indiana voter ID law
The rise of Hispanic voting power
You may say it's not about tort reform, but it is
Prairie View voting problems, the continuing story
"Vote by mail, go to jail"
Kelly Fero: the man, the myth
Another lawsuit against Farmers Branch
Meet the new Solicitor General
The Census and the Congress
Noriega to deliver Democratic radio address
More on the Supreme Slacker Court
Abbott-instigated voter fraud cases dismissed
An interview with Rep. Hubert Vo
Define "prompt"
Term limits in San Antonio
Medina's messy finances
At long last, the Governor's emails
Ethics complaints filed against Medina and Hecht
Did you save the receipt?
The Governor's inbox
Still purging
Background checks for school board members?
Your Voter ID card is in the mail
Never tell a geek it can't be done more efficiently
Truthiness in briefs
GOP will use paper ballots in Wharton County
Washburn fires back
What's in a headline?
They charged for a CD?
Lance Armstrong's political future
Still more on "The Purge"
Bell files lawsuit against Perry
Netroots Nation in Austin
Voter ID by the numbers
Email retention revisited
Ronnie Earle to retire?
Lawsuit filed over allegations of voter fraud
Don't delete that email!
Spellings for Governor?
KBH: I hate blogs!
Melissa Noriega With DFA's Jim Dean Thursday Night
AusChron gives TexBlog PAC a mention
First TexBlog PAC fundraiser a smashing success
Why recorded interviews?
The Rick Perry Road Show
Welcome, new citizens. Now get ready to vote!
TexBlog PAC fundraiser
News flash: Hispanics abandoning GOP
Lawsuit filed by ex-SOS lawyer
On Latino political power
Waiting for Kay Bailey
First, you have to admit that you have a problem
New TDP website
Burka on Heflin
Back to the future with Talmadge Heflin
Support ActBlue on Blogosphere Day
Testing TEAM
One of these officials is not like the others
What's it to Wikipedia?
Meet the new SOS
More on Roger Williams
Roger Williams steps down as SOS
An overview of TEAM
Fixing TEAM
Why do they call you "Hot Tub Tom", Hot Tub Tom?
On the wrong TEAM
How about those centralized voter databases?
Why don't you come back here and say that?
Big Governor is watching you
Fort Bend Democrats barbecue
Ratliff: Change how we rate schools
TDP town hall in the Valley
39 << 100
On the radio again tonight
Perry speaks to Texas Monthly
Danno versus TAB
Of molehills and mountains
Meet Rep. Rick Noriega
CPPP urges Abbott to rule against Perry
What does the Constitution say?
McCown on the HPV order
Where were you in 2005, Jane?
Perry's needle problem: Day Three
More pushback on Perry's vaccine order
Perry's vaccination order
Bye-bye, Cassidy & Associates
The Guv and The Nuge
Perry's bipartisanship, take two
Lampson's return to Congress


Skepticism (6)
Still searching for Bigfoot
And in other news, water is wet
Uri Geller bends copyright law with his mind!
Happy Fourth!
Loch Ness Monster
Is that a Bigfoot foot?


Society and cultcha (68)
Comics criticism
Gay rights support in Houston
I'm gonna save me some daylight
From the "As if you didn't have enough things to worry about" department
The sad state of sex education in Texas
On rudeness
More on lowering the drinking age
Generation whatever
Now is an excellent time to give blood
The Internet is good for kids
Zero Waste Day
Polaroid
The argument against lowering the drinking age
The homework blues
Texas colleges and the drinking age
Kids today
Don't text and skate
You there! Go play outside!
The online life
"Helicopter parents"
Is Facebook a reunion killer?
"You walk wrong"
"Free-range kids"
You'd think quiet in school would be a good thing
How big a house do you need?
Whither carpal tunnel syndrome?
New frontiers in outsourcing
Do not mail?
The next peeing Calvin
Phone hate
Why you shouldn't spank your kids
The urge to conserve
AT&T to ditch the payphone business
Marketing atheism
Paper or plastic?
Ending euthenasia
Comics curmudgeoning
How the Candy Man stole Halloween
Scaife v Scaife
Bad fortune cookies
Father, may I?
No more catalogs!
RIP, Lisa Moore
Twenty-five years of smileys
Not good enough for me!
Teaching children to fear
Is it Halloween already?
Name, height, weight, URL
Nice shoes, Counselor
National Night Out is tonight
Define "full time"
RIP-to-be, Lisa Moore
Frisbee turns fifty
Teen suicide
Hu? What?
Girl Scouts
What's the deal with baby dealers?
Prom night
Define-A-Thon
A slideshow of racist spokescharacters
Take this dog, please
RIP, Johnny Hart
How I feel about the state of the comics page today
A quick plug for donating blood
Why 21?
"For Better or For Worse", but not for much longer
Birthday party wars
The reason why parents get gray hairs


Technology, science, and math (99)
The science of smog
But I'm not
Mainframing
Algae in our future
Green clean
To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations
CSI: Needs Improvement
Reading and writing and social networking
Apparently, the sky really is falling
Close enough for computer work
Evolution in action
Chron coverage of yesterday's SBOE actions
Update on yesterday's evolution happenings
Evolution remains legal in Texas
Study claims smoking ban leads to fewer heart attack deaths
More on e-waste recycling
E-waste recycling
Shift? What shift?
Mammoth DNA update
Let scientists be scientists
New Mersenne prime found
Olivia meets Leonardo
The dinosaur mummy rescheduled
The dinosaur mummy
Has anyone seen my cloak of invisibility?
Send a text to 9-1-1
Voice mail
RIP, Michael DeBakey
Bob Curl to retire at Rice
Good news: We're not doomed!
Plutoids!
A different model for delivering WiFi
SBOE to review science curriculum
New math, Russian-style
A new front in the war on mosquitoes
The top ten science hoaxes
Plug pulled on Philly wi-fi
Put that BlackBerry down!
Geothermal and solar
No creationism degree
Technology Growth: Are We Preparing Today's Students?
That's a lot of carbon
"It's the end of the world." "Again!?!"
The cancer research panel
Our broken math curriculum
Death of the Internet predicted: Film at 11
Screwing up email the White House way
San Marcos balks at municipal WiFi
That's really dark
The big tech stories of 2007
Gulf "Dead Zone" grows with corn prices
Setting the record straight on stem cells
Houston WiFi, the next stage
Philly Wi-Fi network hits a snag
Why were you printing them in the first place?
Fall back report
The Daylight Savings Time shuffle
Citywide WiFi
The phantom vibration menace
How to avoid computer viruses in one easy lesson
Mammoth DNA
When A Meter Is A Natural Disaster
NASA's Urban Legend Problem
EarthLink pays for delay in citywide wi-fi
Some intelligence on "intelligent design"
Does EarthLink want out?
Corpus Christi citywide WiFi rollout completed
Another report on voting machine problems
Maybe not so Comcastic for some
Have you been Comcasted yet?
Don't wear your iPod in a thunderstorm
I do not have an iPhone
Philly's WiFi experience so far
Mammoth extinction: Not our fault
Offshore wind farms are a no go
Wi-tricity?
Comcast: We hope we don't suck
How to speak to global warming skeptics
Another Corpus Christi WiFi update
Earthlink passes test in Philadelphia
WiFi woes?
Ten years of camera phones
A pocketful of Kryptonite
Light pollution
The day without BlackBerry
The good, the bad, and the annoying
Not the sort of headline I like to wake up to
Why you can't use your cellphone on an airplane
What the city hopes to do with its WiFi
The 50 best tech products of all time
What if the dinosaurs had survived?
King versus Kenedy over wind farms
Wind energy followup, and geothermal leases
Wind farms
You may or may not already be late
Lightning!
Cellphone surcharges
Email from beyond the grave
EarthLink to do San Francisco's WiFi


That's our Lege (480)
One threat of a special session averted, another arises
You say "succeed", I say "secede"
House approves windstorm insurance bill
The lack of leadership
Extending the deadline
Budget heads to the Governor
Lon Burnam
Senate passes windstorm bill
Anti-Metro amendment officially dead
The state of solar power
Would-be Metro killer outs himself
And so the chubbing comes to an end
The last day of chubbing
Anti-Metro amendment removed
Westpark zealots try to pull a fast one
Where things stand in the House
Chubbing
McLeroy confirmation lives again
Gearing up for the voter ID showdown
RIP, statewide smoking ban
Campaign finance bill passes the House
Kuempel out of coma
Cohen pulls strip club bill
High school registrars
Why words matter
Rep. Kuempel collapses at Capitol
Tuesday Lege roundup
Monday Lege roundup
Voter ID passes out of House committee
Happy Ardmore Day
Safe Passing Act moving forward
Statewide smoking ban still stuck
Smith caves in to the Browns
Sunsetting TxDOT
Poker bill coming to a vote
TRCC survives sunsetting
No sunset for SBOE
IG for DPS
Voter ID still pending
"Blogger bill" passes out of House committee
The poll tax
Altering Houston term limits
Omnibus gambling bill gets committee approval
Electronic textbooks
Patrick forced to moderate his ultrasound bill
Wendy Davis
Big education bills pass
Bait and switch on Voter ID
And here we have the "compromise" voter ID legislation
Statewide smoking ban stalled
Poker bill in trouble?
"Groundless" campaign finance complaints
Separating the Permanent School Fund from the SBOE
The voter ID "compromise" bill
Clean Air update
The Speaker speaks, and a Voter ID update
Senators versus TCEQ
Two legislator stories
It only hurts when it happens to you
Senate passes Safe Passing bill
Busy day yesterday
Stand Up To Help Bloggers Get Needed Protections Under Texas Law
House hearing set on Keller impeachment resolution
Sometimes the clock is your friend
Another chance to slap the Governor
Go Solar Texas
Statewide smoking ban update
Seventeen casinos?
Revisiting the FLDS saga
Clipping the SBOE
Public financing for judicial races
No Tigua casinos
The Onion takes on Betty Brown
Ethics and campaign finance bills to get their turn
More Ramey Ko
Ramey Ko speaks
Rep. Brown's apology
Senate passes clean air bill
What's in a name, Betty Brown style
CLC gambling update
More on Day One of the House hearings on voter ID
Rodney Ellis
Blaming the nuns
Voter ID begins in the House today
More on the alternate strip club tax
Alternate strip club fee bill passes House
Danno says his vote on redistricting commission was a mistake
Poker bill passes out of House committee
House passes veto override resolution
Let the shenanigans begin!
The Heflin plan for voter ID
The TRCC should be sunsetted
Solar power
The Statesman on the state of beer in Texas
Redistricting commission advances
Voter ID coming to the House
We want more regulation!
More on the AG and the LRB
Blue laws
Senate OKs needle exchange
Ultrabad
Senate wraps up voter ID
Coup? What coup?
No open carry
Dems seek repeal of new DPS rules
No voter ID today
Is there a revolt brewing against Straus?
Why it really is about suppressing the vote
"Strengths and weaknesses" rears its head again
Who will be affected by voter ID?
If he can't testify, he shouldn't redistrict
Voter ID: That's it for now
Voter ID: On to day two
Voter ID: All through the night
Today's the day for Voter ID in the Senate
What you can do today to fight against the Voter ID bill
Safe Passing Act in the Senate
Time again to support your local microbrewer
Is the TAKS test at the end of the line?
Dewhurst makes the case against voter ID
Is redistricting reform about to become a reality?
Bill filed to modify strip club fee
Interview with State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte
Voter ID debate set for the Senate
The sad state of sex education in Texas
Expanded gambling: It isn't just for race tracks any more
Bills about cellphones and driving
The primaries matter, too
Son of Speaker complaining
Steroid madness
Ellis and Crownover on the smoking ban
Voter ID already moving in the Senate
All DNA, all the time
More on the safe passing bill
Another step forward for a statewide smoking ban
Burnam files resolution to impeach Justice Keller
Microbrewers to try again
Committee assignment reactions
House committee assignments are out
Strip club fee back in court
Give bikes a little space
The Lege versus the BCS
Rep. Thibaut
Craddick's cleanup
Big (gun)man on campus
House adopts rules
Talk to them about helmet laws
Armstrong versus secondhand smoke
The Speaker speaks
Musical chairs
More on voter ID and the House
For uniform early voting hours
The calm after the storm
Voter ID is the single most important issue facing Texas today
The silliness shifts to the Senate
Straus swears in and the Lege stands down
The Chron on the Straus effect
A little schadenfreude before the session begins
The Speakership and redistricting
RIP, TTC
What might we expect with Straus?
The "scourge" of straight-ticket voting
Thus endeth the Tom Craddick era
The Straus list
Is this really the end for Craddick?
Straus says he has the votes
We have a contender. Now what?
Rep.-elect Walle to hold town hall meetings
Straus for Speaker?
Speaker strategizing
End of the year Speaker race update
Will the Lege go green?
More on the Dems' anti-Craddick list
The sixty-four member question
Another day, another Speaker candidate
City and county lobbying
Statewide smoking ban proposed
75 declared anti-Craddick votes?
Tragedy for family of State Rep. Robert Alonzo
This week's Speaker scenario
Booster seats
Will the last member to file for Speaker please turn out the lights?
From the "Everything old is new again" files
Ethics complaint filed against Craddick
Yet another Speaker candidate
Calling all overlords!
The Riddler versus the undocumented
The Kino factor
Craddick still has his fans
Happy pre-filing day!
The Speaker's race is officially underway
Are you ready for the Speaker's race?
A legislative threefer
Watch out for that bus, Tony
The Republican case against Tom Craddick
TAKS changes coming
State Senate staffer salaries
The TRCC sunset hearings
The trouble with the TRCC
Trash the TRCC
Speaker's statute tossed
Corte and Patrick start the session early
Bye-bye, TRCC
Steroids in the schools
More "ghost worker" stuff
Burnam to Craddick: What about Keel?
A roundup of voter ID editorials
The Speaker wars have begun
Strip clubs ask again for a halt to the new fee
Where the voter ID battle goes from here
The Lege and immigration
Strip clubs speak about the fee
Strip clubs must still pay fees
Rep. Cohen responds to court ruling on HB1751
The Bible class conundrum
Craddick's fishing trip
Craddick's fate
Strip club fee lawsuit update
One small piece of good news on voter ID
Puente to step down
Janek to leave Senate in June
State Sen. Kyle Janek to resign
Notes from the voter ID hearing on Friday
One Man In Clear Lake Is Overseeing The Texas Ethics Commission
Abbott rules for Craddick
Strip clubs sue over surcharge
Thanks for clarifying that, Tom
Craddick D update
McCall speaks, and other items
Friday rumormongering: More R-to-D switches coming?
Joe Heflin named "Legislator of the Year"
TLCV rates Houston legislators
State Rep. Kirk England switches to Democratic Party
State Rep. Fred Hill will not seek re-election
The cost of your wedding is about to increase
Craddick and Keel
Report card time
Now it's up to Abbott
Mighty expensive groceries you've got there, Mister Speaker
But who might take advantage?
Laney disputes Craddick's absolute power
One more thing about the community college veto
Thanks for the timely warning
Craddick to former parliamentarian: Shut up!
More briefs filed for Speaker ruling from Abbott
He'd call a special session for that?
Kyle Janek's Future Plans
Keel to stay on as parliamentarian
One more time: No special session!
"Fire-safe" cigarettes
Whitemire involved in lawsuit
Assessing the vetoes
Abbott's opinion sought on Craddick's power
Here are the vetoes
The 2007 Best and Worst Legislators
Perry signs cancer research bill
Tech recycling comes to Houston
Texas Film Commission bill signed
HB1919 still needs your help
An overview of parks funding
The session from the Houston/Harris perspective
Why SB482 died
Guess the list
Sylvester wants a special, Dewhurst wants a do-over
No! Don't come back!
More on Turner for Speaker
Sly for Speaker?
Governor Perry's first veto
At long last, sine die
What passes for normal
Quorum busted after budget vote
Reports of HB13's death were exaggerated
Comments on Memorial Day
What next in the House?
Afternoon update on the mess in the House
And the fun begins again
So what happened last night?
Grits on the death of HB13
Is this finally it?
Senfronia for Speaker!
Is HB13 going down?
RIP, statewide smoking ban
Still waiting to vacate
Goodbye SB419, hello HB1919
Is SB1317 dead?
Strip club fee passes the Senate
Dewhurst gives up the pursuit of HB218
Rose and Lucio
Anti-abortion bills die
"Not if, but when"
RIP, SB785?
Four! Four for Speaker!
Darned Good Questions Department
Byron Cook tells Craddick to resign
And then there were three
The effect of SB785
Sen. Gallegos back in Austin
Vacating, all I ever wanted
As the session winds down
SB419 on the calendar
Gallegos' absence and the last days of the session
Anti-abortion bills postponed till today
Revisiting Heflin-Vo
Where's the review?
Uh oh
Last chance to support SB419
Hopefully the last thing I'll have to say about Dewhurst and HB218
Another delay from Bonnen
"Bill Ceverha bill" passes the House
Journey for "Jessica's Law" nears its end
Is this the end of the line for HB218?
Another aspect of the Speaker's race
Joe Pojman speaks
Senate at recess: Now what?
Bonnen versus Bonnen
Marriage tax hike goes to Governor
Craddick: Bring it on
Dewhurst: Sleazier and sleazier
By any means necessary for Dewhurst
Keffer files for Speaker
Voter ID chaos in the Senate
The state of the Speaker's race
Lobbying for Craddick
Speaker's Race II: The Wrath of Tom
Burka on SB1317
HB159 goes down
Rep. Farrar's personal privilege speech on HB1098
More talk of a special session
Stop HB159
More on the anti-Craddick revolt
Overruled!
Farrar on HB13's passage
HB1224 update
"Gutted" statewide smoking ban bill passes the House
HB13 passes the House
Anti-clean air bill gets moved to friendlier turf
More HB13 debunking
HB13: Swinford and Culberson
Bill roundup
Anti-clean air bill referred to Urban Affairs
Statewide smoking ban hits a snag
HB218: Disenfranchisement stories
HB13 maneuvering
HB218: No action in the Senate yet
Mayor White editorializes for clean air
The swiftboating of Rick Noriega
HB1224 and Applied Behavior Analysis
More from Rep. Farrar on HB13
More on the Senate's anti-clean air bill
HB626 passes out of the House
Senate votes against clean air
HB626 stalls, HB218 advances
HB626: Not any better
Compromise on HB626?
Round Two of voter ID today in the House
Voter ID again on Monday
Lactation consultation
HPV showdown looming
Editorial roundup on HB218
Berman's campaign finance bill advances
Here comes Mario
When good things happen to bad bills
"Jessica's Law" passes out of Senate
Letter from border police chiefs regarding HB13
Senate blocks Perry's HPV order
One voter ID measure passes, one gets delayed
Farrar on HB13
More on wiretapping in Texas
Voter ID debate going on
It's not just a partisan dispute
Common Cause on Voter ID
Senate says "No smoking till 19"
Senate passes TYC reform bill
Deal or no deal on Jessica's Law?
TDEx bill approved in committee
Not the campaign finance reform bill I was expecting
And so it goes
Voter ID video
Campaign finance reform bills up today
TDEX followup
Five and ten
TDEx fallout
Voter ID bills coming soon
If at first you don't succeed, amend another bill
Possibly the last thing I'll say about Danno's outburst
More on Danno's outburst
Marriage meddling bill gets gutted
Welcome back, Sen. Gallegos
First they came for gay marriage
Petition for hearings on campaign finance bills
CHIP bill passes House
One step forward, one step back
Woodlands annexation legislation passes out of committee
Voter ID bills pass out of committee
Reminder: Town hall meeting with Rep. Ellen Cohen
More wind over wind farms
Voter ID bill in committee today
The "Bill Ceverha Bill" passes out of the Senate
Danno TV
Global warming in the Lege
Open document formats for Texas
To override or not to override
Town hall meeting on education with Rep. Cohen
Two words I didn't expect to hear this time around: Special session
Red light camera ban bill to be heard today
What happened to HB478?
TTC moratorium is veto-proof
Thanks, Bob
The "Healthy Marriage Initiative"
An answer to Dewhurst on voter ID
"Houston area"
More on the voter ID bill
Voter ID bills appear to be dead for this session
Statewide smoking ban update
The "logic" behind Jessica's Law
"Hand counted paper ballot" bill filed
More on Abbott's HPV opinion
Give TCEQ the right tools for the job
Abbott says Perry's HPV order "does not carry the weight of law"
Sixty down, eighty to go
More voices against "Jessica's Law"
Perry pushes cancer research fund
Senate readies gambling expansion bills
Woolley files bill to protect stem cell research
A little do-gooding
Reactions to "Jessica's Law" passage
Perry declares TYC an emergency
The "Bill Ceverha Bill"
The amended Jessica's Law
Jessica's Law and sales price disclosure
Microbrewery Free Trade Bill filed
Casey on Davis and CHIP
"Jessica's Law" tabled till Monday
Prevention First
More red light camera legislation
Making pharmacists fib
CHIP Day - March 1
Leave a "Get Well" message for Debra Danburg
Bill to extend early voting filed
Dedicating the sporting goods tax
Get well soon, Debra Danburg
Chisum apologizes, but still doesn't get it
Warren Chisum: Man of nonsense
Slow down the coal plant fast track
Shoot! Shoot!
Another bill to stop red light cameras filed
Voucherpalooza
Compromise looming on 60-day rule
Ellis to present statewide smoking ban measure today
Danno makes his choice
Resolution to vote on bills early fails
Just say "No" to Tom Craddick
Committee assignments are out
No committees yet
Abbott says no death penalty for illegal abortions
Drink 'em if you got 'em
The Lege wants to cure cancer
Gallegos receives liver transplant
Eleven minus one
Get yer committee assignments here
Craddick's leadership shuffle
Perry defends HB1403
Score one for Juan Garcia - almost
Bloggers in the House
Gallegos needs liver transplant
Triggering
Mario Gallegos
On the bright side
Time to start making lemonade
Dunnam statement on Speaker's race
Craddick wins
Dan Patrick: One of a kind
And they're off and stalling
Today we'll have a Speaker
YouTubing the Speaker's race
Why do (dead) birds suddenly appear/Every time you are near?
Why the Speaker's race matters
What kind of vote for Speaker will there be?
Burnam files complaint against Craddick
Pitts and McCall, McCall and Pitts


The great state of Texas (135)
Hey, world! Pay attention to us!
Interim DPS director retiring
Burka on the Census and redistricting
TYD convention
Court issues injunction against DPS over drivers license rules
"Gone With the Big Wind"
Operation Border Star
In the long run, we're all dead
Our Hispanic future
TSTA poll on public education
Mardi Gras Galveston
Deregulation fail
Another lawsuit filed against DPS
Fish farming in the Gulf?
The lap bands of Collin County
Armstrong versus secondhand smoke
DPS sued over new drivers license rules
No drivers license for you!
The wind farms are running
Texan of the Year 2008
Pancho Claus
A little Christmas spirit in Grapevine
Moving to Texas
Making movies on location
Dallas extends smoking ban
They're not just sidearms, they're accessories
Smoke 'em if you got 'em in Dallas
RIP, Jim Mattox
More on UT domestic partner benefits
Domestic Partner benefits at UT
Score one for Duncanville
RIP, Fred Baron
Rick Noriega on Texas Monthly Talks
The cult of Buc-ees
Duncanville's war on swingers continues
He finally cleared that last bit of brush
Texas colleges and the drinking age
RIP, Jim Warren
Kenedy wind farm lawsuit tossed
Hillary Clinton to campaign for Obama
Green College Station
Pushing for wind energy infrastructure
DPS director to retire
Comer sues the TEA
"Crazy ant" pesticide now available
The state of solar power in Texas
Fire at the Governor's mansion
Interview with Tom Gray of the AWEA
Lawsuit against Kenedy wind farm on hold for now
Wind energy facility coming to Houston
The state's airplanes
The state of wind power in Texas
LSG report on higher education in Texas
Perry goes on the offensive
The pill for pigs
"Crazy ants"
Obama's voter registration drive in Texas
Where the people will be
Our weak laws and our bad air
The polygamist PR campaign
Wind power to the people
Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup April 26
Caller editorializes for Kenedy wind farm
A pause for the vehicle voucher program
Injunction sought to stop wind farm construction
Texas Independence Day party
Duncanville sues the swingers
Six beers over Texas
Austin wants to eliminate waste
Duncanville sex club lawsuit
CHA files suit over Kenedy wind farms
More on the TEA and Chris Comer
Intelligent design and the TEA
We have met the enemy, and it is us
The rural doctor shortage
If the house is rocking, don't bother knocking
Chupacabra report
"Including this one..."
PUC denies request to halt Kenedy wind farm
"Baby Jessica", 20 years later
Shooting yourself in the foot, Irving-style
Don't think pink
How many birds are we talking about?
How about that utility dereg?
Our state dinosaur: Not who you thought it was
Offshore wind leases granted
PUC to hear wind farm appeal
More on Rep. England's party switch
Preservation: It isn't just for Houston
One last shot at delaying the Kenedy wind farms
Adopt-A-Beach 2007
Mario Gallegos' Very, Very Good Idea
I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords
King v Kenedy, still fighting it out
A response from the billboard industry
Digital billboards
The Hispanics are coming!
Change of Command photos
Four day school week on hold for now
Lady Bird Lake
DADS: We're not that bad
More on the state school abuse scandal
Four-day school weeks?
My cousin, the hero
The next TYC scandal
RIP, Heather Burcham
Mighty big brick you've got there
Noriega on Lady Bird
RIP, Lady Bird Johnson
Texas: Still growing like gangbusters
King versus Kenedy continued
San Antonio gets on the municipal WiFi bandwagon
Julie Boyle update
Henry Cisneros to buy Carol Burnett's house
"We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!"
Cleaner cement for Dallas
Death to fire ants!
Help Eagle Pass
Come to the compound!
Lawsuit filed against New Braunfels tubing ordinances
Let the tubing season begin!
No more teams for San Antonio?
Easing up on the tubers
Renovate the Alamo!
Updating the River Walk
Cooler lovers fight back in New Braunfels
Cooler restrictions passed in New Braunfels
The state of the state 2007
The NYT's appropriate obit for Molly Ivins
RIP, Molly Ivins
Talking about taking the train to Galveston
Molly Ivins back in the hospital
Austin citizenship drive
More New Braunfels tubing rules
Microsoft comes to San Antonio


The making of the President (83)
Pity and loathing
One more reason to be glad he's in Dallas and not here
Whitehouse.gov
Hail to the Chief
Evan Smith's 2012 reality check
Hand over that BlackBerry, Mister President
When will it be Texas' turn?
Endorsement watch: Colin Powell
Endorsement watch: The WaPo and the ChiTrib for Obama
Don't mess with Alaska
Interviewing
Supreme Court denies Barr lawsuit
Are you ready for some football with Barack Obama?
Barr to county clerks: Don't mail those ballots!
Bob Barr FTW!
The SNL Palin/Clinton sketch
Paul 2008, Nader 2000?
The Palin effect
Vetting
Choices
More thoughts on Palin
Palin?
Why solve a problem when you can define it away?
There's a reason some people can't make up their minds
VP KBH?
Not one and done
It's Biden
Houses houses everywhere
And the VP nominee will be...
The candidates on immigration issues
One and done?
Be the first kid on your block to know who Obama's VP is
Winning the iconography battle
More on Obama and the downballot races
Obama still doing well among Latino voters
Obama's Latino outreach
Obama's haul in June
Cisneros and Obama
You there! Quit whining!
It's not a dead heat if someone is leading
Obama to do something in Texas
The bounce
A tale of two headlines: Veepstakes
Obama and Latino voters
Claytie
Unity watch: Republicans (not) for McCain
DeLay versus DeLay
What will Obama do in Texas?
Unity watch: McAuliffe and Moeller
It's unity time
McCain's good buddy Phil
Hillary Clinton to suspend her Presidential campaign
Obama!
And on the Seventieth Day ...
The middle name game
The delegate count
Goin' to California
"Taking Obama to the Heights"
Polls here, polls there
Goonies!
Clinton rally was mediocre
Bill Clinton in Houston tonight
This is our country, but it's not your song
Obama will debate Hillary...somewhere
Hillary versus Obama in Houston?
Edwards drops out
"Plus these babies are high in fiber, and what's the fun of becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?"
Mitt Romney Got A Lump Of Coal In His Stocking
Hostages taken at Clinton NH headquarters
"The Evolver"
Republicans no hablan español.
Run, dammit
What their bumper stickers say about them
Independent at last!
Heck of a job, Joshie
House approves TYC reform bill
Elizabeth Edwards
Ron Paul is off and running for President
John Edwards to visit San Antonio
Edwards stands up
If you want me to vote for you, here's what you've got to do
Hillary!
Ron Paul for President


TV and movies (60)
RIP, Andy Hallett
Bruno and Dr. No
The "Dollhouse" dilemma
Movie night of the future
Remake my day
RIP, Paul Newman
RIP, Don LaFontaine
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
RIP, Larry Harmon
Walle, WALL-E
It's not bad, it's a classic
What not to watch
RIP, Harvey Korman
RIP, Dick Sutcliffe
"The Electric Company" to ride again
Get ready to get Lost again
When reality needs a little help
Interview with the Mythbusters
About those new episodes...
Save the 4400!
At last! "Lost"!
Are you ready for some Super Bowl ads?
I'm excited about Charlie Wilson's War
RIP, Dick Wilson
Five Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped
RIP, Satriale's Pork Store
One good reason to support the Writers in their strike
Is cable programming killing network TV?
Bionic Woman 2.0
"Dirty Jobs"
"The distinguished gentleman"
"It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."
Hot summer television
RIP, Marvin Zindler
Have You Seen SICKO?
Google making me sick-o
Shaq's Big Challenge
How much would you pay for all that Comcasticness?
Still spoiling
So much for staying spoiler-free
The final "Sopranos" tonight
How would you run this marathon?
Houston: The European car commercial backdrop city
"Lost" Season 3 screen cap recap
Tron!
We have TiVo again
A short rant about TiVo customer service
"The Bionic Woman" lives
The end of "Lost" is coming, but not quite yet
Bilingual children's TV
"The Sopranos In Seven Minutes"
Ed Brandon announces his retirement
John Belushi
"Speed of lightning, roar of thunder..."
How do you TiVo?
K-Fed apologizes to fast food workers
Would you like fries with that, K-Fed?
Film screening on Texas parks
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Revisiting the end of "Lost"


Websurfing (19)
Tweet it! The cops!
Texas lawmakers on Twitter
Non-profit social media
And may all your Christmases be white
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night
As always, Merry Christmas, Mel Torme
Keep Houston Rich
The Twitterati
Things Younger Than McCain
"When Obama Wins"
Diet Coke and Mentos: The sequel
Single-serving sites
The Stupid Filter
Death of Facebook predicted: Film at 11
Facebook and Plaxo spam
Those four little letters
"She maketh me to drive down concrete pastures"
Suffering Sappho!
Bad baby names