Archive for June, 2009
Supreme Court rules New Haven discriminated against white firefighters
This, from the Wall Street Journal, is worth reading in full. For those in a hurry, here are the highlights:
The U.S. Supreme Court, voting 5-4 in a case that has been a lightning rod for high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, invalidated a Connecticut city’s decision to scrap the results of a firefighter promotion exam in [...]
Advancing Houston
Tory Gattis wrote this column yesterday, and I have to say I heartily agree with it. Here’s the bulk of it:
Houston has a unique window of opportunity right now to secure its economic future as well as improve its world-city status. We’re currently the global capital of the oil and gas industry, one of the [...]
Property Taxes and Home Prices
- – – UPDATE – – -
Do to the many, many comments I’ve recieved from people who seem to think I’m somehow bashing Houston here, I thought I’d repeat here what I posted in one of the comments:
I’m not arguing that Houston collects disproportionately more taxes than other cities do, because I don’t know whether [...]
Worthy Reading
I’ve got two articles worth sharing today.
The first is a great post from Keep Houston Houston (thanks to Mike Snyder for pointing this one out to me). In it, KHH explains very clearly one of the problems with city-building: cities are not designed, they are grown. Because cities are alive they are naturally changing all [...]
Update on Transit Corridors
Alright, I’m back from vacation in Alaska, and I have an update to add to my previous post on the proposed Transit Corridor Streets ordinance.
First, if you haven’t read it, Christof wrote a very detailed explanation of what the ordinance does and doesn’t do. If you want to understand the nuts and bolts of this thing, [...]
Everyblock Houston!
Everyblock just released a site for Houston today! This is great news. Feel free to sign up for an account and register for neighborhood and zip code based email alerts for various activities going on in your community:
http://houston.everyblock.com/
The first article I pulled up on the Montrose was about Khun Kay Thai Cafe on Montrose near [...]
Transit Corridor Streets
There’s been a lot of chatter about the Urban Corridors effort this week. Mike Snyder started things off by providing us an update on the ordinance, and several other bloggers have chimed in about it. Most notably, Cory Crow wrote a pretty scathing rebuke of the idea, though I think he was reacting more to [...]
Congestion Pricing Fairness
I caught this press release from the Environmental Defense Fund today through Streetsblog. One of the main complaints people have against congestion pricing of roads is the potential for a disproportionate impact on low income families that often trade a far-flung commute for lower housing prices. The article suggests strategies that may work to mitigate [...]
Pedaling Revolution
Thanks to Matthew Harding for the tip on this one. There’s a new book out from the Oregon State University Press called Pedaling Revolution. David Byrne had this to say in his review in the New York Times:
…the book is useful — for those of us who occasionally find ourselves on the defensive, Mapes provides [...]
Guest Post
Today I’m happy to share a guest post from regular reader and comment poster Appetitus Rationi Pareat. APR is a lawyer here in Houston, and was kind enough to share some of his legal expertise with me after my comments last week about the Texas Constitution. The article he has prepared for today is short [...]
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