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Andrew Schneider blogs from the Houston's Federal Courthouse. |
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Trial Of Stanford Execs Lopez And Kuhrt Begins The trial of Stanford Financial Group executives Gilberto Lopez and Mark Kuhrt is set to begin this morning at Houston's federal courthouse. They're charged with supporting a Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $7 billion. |
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Houston State Senator Mario Gallegos Has Passed Flags at state owned buildings across Texas are flying at half-staff Wednesday morning following the death of Houston State Senator Mario Gallegos Jr. Gallegos served more than two decades in the state legislature after a long career as a Houston firefighter. |
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Town Hall Presidental Debate Blog The second presidental debate takes on the town-hall-style. |
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Houston Scientists Probe Obesity-Cancer Connection Researchers in Houston are examining the connection between obesity and cancer. A newly published study involving fat and thin mice has important lessons about how body fat can fuel the growth of a tumor. |
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International Rugby Lands In Houston BBVA-Compass Stadium downtown will host International Women's Rugby for the next three years. Houston beat out entire countries for the international series leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. |
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Plans Move Ahead For Ambitious Houston-Area Freeway Project Construction is set to begin next spring on the latest segment of the Grand Parkway, a multi-year project to build a 170-mile loop around the Greater Houston area. |
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What Makes A Voter An 'Undecided' Voter? Tonight's town-hall-style presidential debate will feature an audience of "undecided" voters. But, how, exactly, can a voter still be "undecided" near the end of a presidential campaign that has lasted two years? |
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Home Prices Rise As Inventory Hits Ten-Year Low September marked the sixteenth-straight month in positive territory for Houston-area home sales. That's according to the latest data from the Houston Association of Realtors. |
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Galveston Reports Surge In Summer Tourism This summer marked Galveston's strongest peak-tourism season since Hurricane Ike battered the island in September 2008. |
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Celebrating The Men Who Launched The Space Race With Artwork Milestone contributions to space exploration will forever link Houston and the Soviet Union. That commonality has been marked with the dedication of artwork that honors two space pioneers from each country: Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn. |
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New Light Rail Car Joins Metro's Fleet The first of nineteen new light rail cars will soon go into service on the Main Street line. Metro says the new cars will help the system accommodate more riders, and also new features. |
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Galveston Reports Record Tax Revenues From Summer Tourism Galveston is reporting record tax revenues for this year's peak tourism season, in a continuing turnaround since Hurricane Ike battered the island. |
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HISD Officials Show Off Crumbling Schools Houston Independent School District officials are trying to drum up support for their bond proposal by taking people on tours of aging schools in the district. |
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Route 88.7 Blog: Plans, Grants, and Automobiles News and updates on plans for I-45 North, non-traditional transportation grants, and a warning for heights drivers. |
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What Are The Mangrove Trees Telling Us About The Texas Coast? The coast-line of Texas is changing. But this isn't a story about rising sea levels. What's changing is what's growing along the Gulf Coast. StateImpact reporter Dave Fehling has more on what scientists are finding. |
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Veteran Unemployment, Hard Barrier To Overcome Houston's unemployment rate hit seven percent last month, well below the national average. But for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the job market is much tougher to crack. |
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Vermont Journalist Talks About Being Kidnapped In Syria We've been following local journalist and former UH student Austin Tice's story since he left for Syria earlier this year. He disappeared on August 13th and the only update on him has been a YouTube video with his captors. To get some insight on what might be happening with Tice, Edel Howlin spoke to another journalist who was also kidnapped in Syria. |
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Downtown Powers Strong Summer For Houston Office Space Houston's commercial real estate market enjoyed a strong third quarter, according to the latest overview by Jones Lang LaSalle. |
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DeLay's Victories Endure, Even if He Loses in Court Tom DeLay is still in court a decade after engineering a Republican victory that resulted in convictions for conspiracy and money laundering. Appellate judges are deciding whether he should serve the prison term handed to him in January 2011 or whether he should walk. He might still win, but either way, his party came out ahead. |
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PAC Uses Football to Target Voucher Proposals In a video that ponders potential threats to the viability of high school football, Progress Texas PAC urges Texans to fight plans to institute school voucher programs. |
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HISD and Trees for Houston announce a partnership to plant trees at new and refurbished campuses. The effort goes with the district's ongoing commitment to promote green schools and eco-friendly environments. |
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Rice Alum Brews New Beer To Honor The University's Centennial This week Rice University is celebrating its centennial and there's a new Houston brew to immortalize the year the university opened. |
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Shuttle Making Slow Trip To Final Home Space Shuttle Endeavour has paused on its slow roll through the streets of Los Angeles as it moves toward permanent display at a museum near downtown. |
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Tech Research From Rice University: Genders Use Emoticons In Different Ways Psychologists at Rice University have been investigating how people use their smartphones, and their latest study revealed some interesting data about how people use emoticons. |
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Strip Club Owners Sue City of Houston Over 'Pole Tax' Houston strip clubs are suing the City of Houston over a new fee set to go into effect next week. |
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3rd Annual Summit On Human Trafficking, Are We Winning The Fight? Local organization "Children at Risk" held its third annual summit on human trafficking in Dallas today. This year has been busy for raising awareness of trafficking in Houston and Texas. But when will that work be enough? |
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Houston Sales, Production Down In September The September survey of Houston purchasing managers showed a sharp reversal, erasing most of the gains of the previous two months. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Scott Rozzell The November ballot includes a bond initiative to raise more than four hundred million dollars for new construction at the Houston Community College system. Part of that would go to accommodate the training of new oil and gas workers. Joining Andrew Schneider on this week's Bauer Business Focus is Scott Rozzell, general counsel for CenterPoint and co-chair of the bond campaign. |
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Speculation, Not Supply Disruptions, Driving Oil Price Hikes The price of oil topped $92 a barrel, on concerns that rising tensions between Turkey and Syria might disrupt of crude oil supplies from the Middle East. |
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LULAC Sues Harris County Over Tainted Voter Rolls LULAC, the League of United Latin American citizens and a number of Houston residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Harris County voter registrar Don Sumners. The suit alleges the county knowingly rejects more voter registration applications than other counties in Texas. |
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Houston Zoo Mourns Loss Of Sea Lion Astro The Houston Zoo has lost the beloved sea lion Astro after a short illness. Astro was a favorite for visitors and the zoo employees who took care of him. |
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Why Voters Need To Read The Whole Ballot Today in our ongoing election coverage, we look at a problem that could come up if people vote straight party ticket on the ballot. Voters might miss a number of important elections. |
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An institution synonymous with Houston — Rice University — is marking its 100th anniversary. Rice started off with just seventy students in four buildings. It's now one of the top research schools in the nation. |
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Falling Vacancies, Rising Rents Likely At Port Of Houston A new study of U.S. seaports suggests the property market for the Port of Houston has bottomed out. |
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Supreme Court Case On UT Admission Standards Draws Response From Texas Lawmakers The U.S. Supreme Court questioned the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions. A white Texas woman denied admission to UT is challenging the university's program. The case could lead to new limits on affirmative action. |
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Appeals Court Will Decide If Tom Delay's Money Laundering Conviction Stands After hearing arguments, an appeals court in Austin will now rule on whether the conviction will stand against former Sugar Land Congressman Tom Delay. |
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Galveston Hosts Conference For Disaster Response Across Southeast Texas Emergency medical responders from at least 20 counties around Houston are gathered today in Galveston to learn the newest response techniques. While good equipment, like ambulances and helicopters does help, the best response begins with coordination. |
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Houston Restaurant Weeks Makes $1.2 Million For Food Bank A local fundraising event known as Houston restaurant weeks raised a surprising amount of money this year. This year's donation to the Houston Food Bank is 53 percent higher than last year. |
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Chávez's Reelection Will Cost Venezuelan Oil Production Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela handed Hugo Chávez another six-year term. That's likely to mean further deterioration in the country's oil sector. |
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SpaceX's Commercial Capsule En Route To Space Station NASA says a private cargo vehicle is on target to reach the international space station Wednesday morning. The flight represents yet another step in the commercialization of the space program. |
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Harris County Joins City In Regulating Sexually Oriented Businesses Harris County Commissioners have approved changes to regulations for sexually oriented businesses that operate in unincorporated areas of the county. It's an attempt to add more teeth to laws that are often easy to get around. |
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Helping Our Heroes: PTSD Help In Houston Many veterans are reluctant or don’t know how to tackle their post traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues. Those are the people that the Michael E. DeBakey hospital is looking for at their mental health fair this Friday. In our continuing series Helping Our Heroes focuses on PTSD and where some help can be found for our local veterans. |
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Most Domestic Violence In Texas Happens In Harris County Harris County has the highest number of deaths from domestic violence of any county in Texas. City leaders are reaching out to law enforcement groups to work on the issue. |
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TxDOT Seeks Public Input On I-45 North Improvements TxDOT is holding public meetings this week to discuss improvement plans for a Houston freeway that listed as one of the most congested corridors in Texas. |
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20 Years Of NAFTA Marked In San Antonio It was 20 years ago this week that the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed by the leaders of the three North American nations. Monday the historic signing was celebrated in San Antonio. |
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BP Refinery Sale Could Save Thousands Of Texas City Jobs Marathon Petroleum has agreed to buy BP's Texas City refinery, in a deal worth $2.5 billion dollars. The deal is expected to preserve several thousand jobs at the Texas City plant. |
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Texas Lawmakers Listen To Testimony Over Online Instruction The Texas Senate Education Committee held a public hearing on the growing use of virtual education in many classrooms across the state. Testimony included recommendations to bolster programs that are not performing as expected. |
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TxDOT Distributes Funds For Non-Traditional Projects TxDOT is preparing to give out millions of dollars to Texas communities for what they're calling "non-traditional" transportation projects. |
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University Of Texas Supreme Court Case Could Change College Admissions This Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving the University of Texas that could change how schools select students for admission. |
