Is reporting a crime worth the risk of being separated from your family?
Who Told ICE Where the Witness Was? The most troubling question in the case of ICE arresting a Houston crime witness is the simplest one: How did ICE know where
Meme and Santiago Have a Solution to Many Problems Confronting Texas
Texas has a strange way of solving problems. One city loses water by the billions of gallons. Another city worries about running out of water. Oil and gas companies need
Mayor Whitmire called Gulfton residents “largely undocumented”
Houston Opened Cooling Centers. Are Gulfton Residents Too Afraid to Enter Them? The evidence already points in that direction. Gulfton residents and community organizers told the Houston Chronicle this year
Houston Protected the Winners—and Lost the Program
Don’t feel sorry for the loss of the program; the beneficiaries needed to go on a diet. The city can build a much better program that really helps the little
Some Mornings I Wake Up Humble. This Was Not One of Them.
Excuse Me While I Beat My Own Drum Some mornings I wake up humble. This was not one of them. On January 20, I wrote a story titled “Harris County
Houston May Be Pouring Tomorrow’s Fortune Down the Drain
Imagine Houston Residents as rich as Saudi Arabia, not because there is oil underneath us but because someone at City Hall saw a future fortune in water. Texas built pipelines
I Have Lived Here Since 1973. Edward Pollard Is the Best Council Member I Have Had.
I moved into this part of Houston in 1973. Richard Nixon was president. The Astros still played in the Astrodome. Houston was a very different city. The council districts have
WHY DO HOUSTON’S BAYOUS KEEP BECOMING MORGUES?
A city should know why so many of its people are dying in the thing it uses as its name. Another body has been pulled from a Houston bayou. A
Is Houston the bayou-bodies capital of the world?
After heavy rains receded, another body appeared along Buffalo Bayou. Was it a new death—or an old secret the water finally gave back? Did Houston Find Another Body—or Did the
Is the City of Houston Putting People’s Lives in Danger With Its ICE Policy?
How a “Good Address” Can Put the Wrong Man in the Wrong White Van A Houston police officer stopped a Honduran woman for driving 58 miles per hour in a
John Whitmire has made a 180-degree change in his stance on ICE. Why?
“During the past week, Chief Diaz and Mayor Whitmire have spoken several times with state and local agencies to ensure a transparent and thorough investigation following the deadly ICE shooting.
City solid waste is attempting to deceive the public with measurements that fail the test of common sense.
Houston Residents Deserve Results, Not Metrics For years, Houston residents have been told that city services are improving. Officials often cite statistics, reports, and performance metrics as evidence of progress.
Garbage fee is a F…ing bad idea
The video below shows how other cities have been transferring revenue from utility fees to general funds for years. John Whitmire wonders why it was not done before by previous
How do we know that Houston and the County are not turning in records to ICE, when people visit a hospital or a government clinic?
Somehow, the police and or ICE seem to know which cars to stop. How is that possible?
Houston plans to add a garbage fee of $5 a month
Ask not what your country can do for you, but you can do for your country.
Houston Chronicle prefers someone who kisses the bully’s ass than someone that will stand up to the bully. Annise Parker votes for MAGAs.
Annise Parker votes for Republicans. Houston Chronicle likes their politicians to kiss the asses of the Donald Trumps and the Greg Abbotts of the world.
Alejandra Salinas the AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) of the South
We need more people like Ms. Salinas who are willing to stand up for what is right. We can not be Jews in Nazi Germany; the same thing that happened is certainly possible today with the people in charge of our nation and in this state, Texas.
If one is Here Illegally HPD will detain you and Call ICE, per contract Whitmire and HPD signed.
Even children wearing bunny caps will be detained and turned over to ICE.
HPOU and their stand on City Council’s new police regarding ICE.
What the HPOU representative is doing is something that Republicans have mastered: how to make Muslims, Illegals, transgender people, or anyone else that they are targeting a bogeyman.
Plummer v Parker for Harris county Judge
Annise Parker does a 180; she is no different than Kim Ogg, a MAGA masquerading as a Democrat.