Recent columns
Texas lawmakers should focus on important things like taxes
I think most of us would choose pragmatic governing in Austin any day over partisan divisiveness. But it's nice when a group of elected officials admit they want it, too.
AFC South turns to ex-Patriots to catch the champs
Patriots South. That is really what the Texans' division should be called. Three of the AFC South's four teams are expected to soon be coached by names plucked from the Belichick tree.
In Montgomery County, far-right group Empower Texans sees...
Empower Texans hated state Rep. Mark Keough before it loved him. The hard-right political organization excoriated Keough in a piece on its website in January 2017. The Woodlands Republican had given a speech seconding the nomination of state Rep. Joe Straus, a longtime Empower Texans nemesis, ...
Houston sportscasters go way back - all the way to UT
Julia Morales and Raheel Ramzanali are two of Houston's brightest young sports broadcasters. They go back. They met as sophomores (if you trust Ramzanali's memory) or juniors (let's go with Morales') in a journalism class at the University of Texas. They worked as teammates on a semester ...
Eagles comfortable with being Super Bowl underdog
Look at it like this: Foles is Batman, but he's going against Superman.
Win a tad sloppy, but at least Rockets have their health
As good as they've been - No. 2 in the stacked Western Conference - they'd been short-handed for almost a month.
Joe Holley looks back at the oldest town in Texas
Note: While a beastly book deadline keeps me chained to my desk for a while, I thought I'd revisit some of my favorite towns and favorite tales. I'll be back on the road shortly. This column appeared originally on Feb. 20, 2015. NACOGDOCHES - The oldest town in Texas has always been a ...
Pork rib chowder, cream of brisket: Barbecue soup's on at...
It's a question that has bedeviled pitmasters since the earliest days of Texas barbecue: What do you do with any unsold meat left over after a day's service? Deciding how much barbecue to cook on any given day is not an exact science. Ideally, you sell out of barbecue as soon as the last order ...
Small-business resources
Tuesday Starting Your Business:9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., UH Bauer College SBDC, 2302 Fannin, Suite 200. Cost: $49. Information: www.sbdc.uh.edu . Wednesday Protecting Your Business from Cybercrime: 9-11:30 a.m., UH Bauer College SBDC, 2302 Fannin, Suite 200. Cost: $29. Information: ...
Listen: Where do the Texans go from here?
Turmoil made the first two days of the Texans' offseason more interesting than were the last two months of their regular season. A few things were cleared up in Bob McNair's interview with the Chronicle's John McClain and Fox 26's Mark Berman ( Click here to read that). The private interview ...
Supreme Court will force Congress to fix Internet sales tax
The battlefield between brick-and-mortar stores and Internet retailers could become a lot more level by the end of the year. The U.S. Supreme Court is going to reconsider a ruling it made a quarter century ago to block states from collecting sales tax from retailers in other states. Justice ...
Recent freezes aid in war against invasive aquatic species
Texas freshwater anglers, boaters and others who enjoy and benefit from the state's rivers, reservoirs and other inland waters received a couple of welcome, if frigid, holiday gifts to start 2018. The two spates of extreme winter weather that gripped much of the state earlier this month, ...
