
Houston Matters
Violent crime numbers (Jan. 12, 2023)
Posted on · Violent crime is on the decline, according to data HPD Chief Troy Finner cited Wednesday. Is that true, and how much of this is due to actual reforms?
Posted on · Violent crime is on the decline, according to data HPD Chief Troy Finner cited Wednesday. Is that true, and how much of this is due to actual reforms?
Posted on · The co-op model works by bringing a group of people together to lower solar installation costs.
Posted on · Despite its growth, Houston ranks fourth in total solar energy capacity in the state, behind San Antonio, Austin and El Paso.
Posted on · The Sunnyside Energy project is part of the city’s participation in the C40 Reinventing Cities competition, which Houston joined in 2017.
Posted on · The CEO of a solar energy company calls for a focus on all energy sources.
Posted on · The oil giant is buying a large share of a solar power company
Posted on · The state's former governor is lobbying to extend a hand to the nation's struggling coal and nuclear industries
Posted on · The former Texas governor says he’s having the time of his life running an agency he once pledged to eliminate.
Posted on · (Above: This artist’s rendering depicts the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star. The cool, reddish star is about 40 light-years awayfrom Earth. Image Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Here in Space City, we talk a lot about whatâs next in space travel and the role we may […]
Posted on · The City Council recently approved it to facilitate the use of an alternative energy source that is plentiful in Texas.
Posted on · Last month, Austin’s City Council updated the city’s Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan, with an auspicious goal: to see that 55 percent of Austin’s energy comes from clean, renewable resources by 2025. One component of that effort is to expand the use of solar energy. How about Houston? What could we accomplish here […]
Posted on · Texas Congressman Kevin Brady wants to change a long-standing provision of Social Security to provide more benefits to some public sector employees who work second jobs. He’s pushing for passage of a bill called The Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act to repeal and replace the Windfall Elimination Provision first passed back in the 1980s. […]
Posted on · From some potential layoffs in the Houston oil and gas industry, to a bustling holiday travel season getting underway, to a journalist’s errors in an article about Texas barbecue: we discuss The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of this week’s Houston news (albeit a shortened holiday week). Our panel of non-experts this week includes: […]
Posted on · A number of Houston community organizations are planning a rally in MacGregor Park at 5 p.m. today, in response to a Ferguson, Mo., grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown back in August. Officials in and around Greater Houston are calling for peaceful protest. Rep. […]
Posted on · The report by Environment Texas says the electricity generated from solar power is increasing rapidly.