Song #56 on the Popdose Top 100 Covers list is “Thing Called Love”, originally by John Hiatt and covered by Bonnie Raitt. Here’s the original: That’s not the original recording – the original is a straight-ahead rocker – but come on, how could I resist that one? I’ve noted quite a few songs on this [...]
Posts on ‘August 11th, 2012’
HISD board approves its bond package
In the end, it wasn’t a close vote. The school board voted 8-1 to seek a $1.9 billion bond issue that would rebuild or renovate most of the district’s aging high schools, remodel several elementary and middle schools, and upgrade campus technology. The plan calls for phasing in a tax rate increase expected to cost [...]
The Radack way
You have to admire the single-minded focus, I’ll say that much for the man. Allen Watson may have figured his role as a member of Metro’s board of directors occasionally would dent his political capital, but a vote he cast last Friday may cost his company cash. Watson was one of five city of Houston [...]
Janitors win new contract
I’m very glad for them. Janitors who clean some of the largest office buildings in Houston have reached a tentative agreement with six of the city’s largest cleaning companies, a union representative said late Wednesday. The deal is expected to bring an end to a heated labor dispute that began after the janitors’ last contract [...]