My friend Trent Seibert, a watchdog journalist in the truest sense of the word, has passed. He was just 47 years old.
Category: Houston
Various media in Houston report that the Houston Housing Authority has implemented a new smoke-free policy in the public housing it oversees.
At least one resident of the public housing is upset (and a little confused):
“That’s not good, that’s not good at all,” said Georgiane Daniels. “You have lost your freedom. You pay the bills you should be able to do what you want.”
Umm, yes, but when someone else helps pay the bills for the public housing,
… posted over at blogHOUSTON.
The current baseball Hall of Fame voting system is kind of a joke. As an example, Houston isn’t even properly represented by writers who LIVE IN and COVER Houston! Nor are MLB.com writers part of the mix (even though Alyson Footer has long been a great baseball analyst for MLB.com).
Biggio will eventually get in. Bagwell deserves to, but it may not happen under the current system.
Personally, I like Dan Le Batard’s
Texans head coach Gary Kubiak, who is (by all accounts) a good man, recently suffered a mini stroke (technically a transient ischemic attack).
He wasn’t able to coach last weekend, but his doctors and the Texans decided he would be fine to coach THIS weekend. Two weeks after a major neurological event (not trying to be a smartass, just stating the facts).
Before this week’s game, I wasn’t so sure Kubiak should be back on the sideline. A Houston
Two City of Houston employees came by the house today.
Callie informs that they wanted “to inspect the windows and sign off on the permit.”
Ummm, what?
After further inquiry, Callie ascertained that they were talking about the replacement windows we had installed shortly after moving in a little over THREE YEARS AGO.
Undaunted, they told her well, yes, there’s a bit of an, umm, backlog, but they could just sign off on the permit now.
They also were not