The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee failed Monday afternoon to vote on a proposed ordinance to regulate booting vehicles in private parking lots, opting instead to hold a third meeting on the issue. After some committee members asked questions already outlined in the briefing and others sought to modify the city staff's recommendation, chair Linda Koop said there were "too many outstanding questions" and called for a second special meeting to be held before the council's
Guess this will be the last time we run this photo of Shanda Perkins.Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sent Unfair Park a note to point out this "amazing" development from yesterday: Burleson's Shanda Perkins bid to become a member of the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles was killed dead in the Senate yesterday. Happened just a week after the Senate Committee on Nominations gave her the 4-1 okee-doke, with senators John Whitmire (D, Houston), John Carona (R, Dallas) and Eliot Shapleigh (D,
John BradleyAt 10 this morning, the state Senate Committee on Criminal Justice will have a little face time with John Bradley, the newly appointed chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, created in 2005 to see whether Texas should have executed Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004. (Probably not, said the August '09 report: "Investigators ... relied on bad science, unproven theories and personal bias.") Which reminds me: The TFSC's coordinator sent over a Bradley-penned "editorial" in whic
