METRO Chair Gilbert Garcia discusses the 2012 General Mobility Program Referendum on the November 6th ballot with listeners. To learn more visit www.ridemetro.org
Via News92FM.Com Houston city leaders are considering new regulations for charitable organizations that feed persons that are homeless and shut in. The proposed rules are scheduled to go before the Houston City Council this afternoon. Read More
By Carolyn Campbell — During the next big storm, the city of Houston’s Office of Emergency Management wants you to use your cell phone to do more than make calls. Houston’s office of emergency management is the first local agency of its kind in the country to launch a mobile Web site designed to reach out […]
Houston ISD and City of Houston presents “Back-to-School Fest.” Free school supplies, uniforms, immunizations, kid Fun Zone, get info on programs and services provided by HISD, the City of Houston, and other community organizations and more Saturday, August 6, 2011, at the George R. Brown Convention Center…full morning of family fun! For complete information read […]
 Mandatory furloughs for city of Houston workers will happen next week, but the plan won’t include firefighters or police officers, the mayor said.  Mayor Annise Parker said she will announce how many next week. Read more
Ten days after 180,000 Houston voters shot down the city’s controversial red light cameras, the issue has finally come to a head. Two days ago the city attorney sent a letter to the president of American Traffic Solutions, the company that owns the system, requesting that the red light cameras be turned off Monday at […]
Residents in a community called Sunnyside near Bellfort and Scott Streets are worried about the layoffs at the Houston Housing and Community Development Department. On Friday, the department that helps in revitalizing neighborhoods cut its staff by 20 percent to cut costs. Pastor James Nash grew up on Colonial Lane, and has never been so […]
The Houston Police Department didn’t recommend criminal charges in the crash of two Houston Fire Department trucks that killed a bicyclist and injured 10 others last year in the Montrose area, a spokesman said. “The review of the (Houston Police Department) report indicated that the drivers involved had not been acting dangerously or with reckless […]
Mayor Annise Parker has shelved a campaign promise to use a controversial federal program to screen for illegal immigrants in local jails, saying the city has not yet decided to fund the initiative amid a tight budget year. Instead, she said, the city is focused on a less costly program that automatically checks the immigration […]
Eliminating fares on Metro buses and trains, as Mayor Annise Parker recently suggested, would cripple the agency’s light-rail expansion plans and force reductions in service to people who depend on public transportation, board chairman David Wolff said on Thursday. At the close of the monthly board meeting, Wolff read aloud his Feb. 11 letter to […]
Students will pay a little more at the University of Houston next year. Law students will pay much more. Regents this morning approved a 16.5 percent increase for students at the law school. Law school Dean Ray Nimmer defended the increase — originally proposed as a 20 percent hike but whittled down before today’s board […]
Mayor Annise Parker's plan to raise the fees already has been met with a chilly reception from City Council members..
