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Human rights issue

Houston City Council edges toward revising trash bin ordinance as homeless advocates speak out

By Tyler Rudick

03.28.13 | 3:36 pm

Homeless advocates continue to push to overturn a Houston statute that bans individuals from rummaging through public trash cans, an act that recently left homeless veteran James Kelly wi ...


Mystery solved?

A bomb on his doorstep: City councilman links stunning death threats to his politics

By Tyler Rudick

11.28.12 | 5:19 pm

Houston city councilman Al Hoang woke Tuesday morning to discover what authorities suggest was an unlit Molotov cocktail sitting on the doorstep of his District F home. The improvised incendiar ...


Foodie News

Food trucks as terrorist weapons? Debate over rule changes attracts Bun B, restaurant defenders & strange logic

By Sarah Rufca

09.18.12 | 10:25 pm

Does the presence of food trucks hurt or help brick and mortar restaurants? Do they contribute to a thriving neighborhood or are they an eyesore and potential danger? Those questions were the m ...


Fowl play

Meet Isabella Acuña, the 12-year-old chicken crusader fighting the city to keep her hens

By Whitney Radley

08.16.12 | 9:03 am

Isabella Acuña isn't your average 12-year-old. Sure, she has braces. Yes, she wears arms full of colorful bracelets and fingers bedecked with glittery rings. But Acuña is an e ...


A day of harmony

Mayor Annise Parker offers hope and humor at 2012 inauguration ceremony

By Tyler Rudick

01.03.12 | 4:55 pm

Standing before a packed house of public officals and political supporters at the Hobby Center, Mayor Annise Parker took the oath of office for a second two-year term Tuesday morning and said creat ...


Is it over?

Red light cameras given a death sentence: City Council casts an emphatic vote to turn off & take down

By Sarah Rufca

08.24.11 | 12:53 pm

After nearly two hours of debate, Houston City Council voted to turn off the red light cameras dotting 70 city intersections and to repeal the ordinance that set them up. According to the non-b ...


Verde Cool

Meet the City Council candidate who loves the Hipstrict and has the vanity license plates to prove it

By Steven Thomson

08.10.11 | 6:04 am

You may have noticed a car prowling around the streets of the Heights and Montrose sporting the vanity license plates reading, "HPSTCT," a reference to the CultureMap-coined ironic lingo ...


How large is the city?

It's a go for two new Houston city council districts

By Sarah Rufca

03.09.11 | 2:53 pm

Houston city council voted on Wednesday to certify the city's population at 2.1 million and add two new district seats. The addition of two new single-member districts, Districts J and K, w ...


The 500 difference

Census conundrum causes heated Houston debate: When population becomes political

By Sarah Rufca

03.03.11 | 5:22 am

In a city of over two million people, you wouldn't think a matter of 500 people one way or the other would make much difference. Oh, but it does. It matters when the official 2010 census co ...


Die another Day

Heights Walmart vote delayed by City Council: Will the city pay the developer's legal fees too?

By Caroline Gallay

09.15.10 | 11:57 am

The proposed 380 agreement between the city of Houston and Heights Walmart project developer Ainbinder that was up for a vote in today's city council meeting has been delayed. Council membe ...


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