Welcome to everyone who clicked through the link on the Chronicle’s new CityHall Blog!

Houblog was started in 2003 as a way for me to vent certain frustrations about the city, but also to alert and educate citizens about their city government, local politics, and how it works. I blog under a pseudonym for fairly obvious reasons, although my time available to do so varies. Burnout isn’t just a work hazard; there’s times when I simply can’t concentrate enough to do the research and write like I should. This led to a season of animé-blogging, which cluttered things up here for several months last fall, until I started Bridgebunnies.com to contain that. Since the new year began, I’ve tried to balance my “work” and “play” blogging a bit more evenly.

My politics are libertarian-right (Jacksonian), although I’m not terribly active beyond blogging. I tend to appear too competent for my own good, and get put in charge of something, which I hate.

The agenda writeups that Matt mentions were a regular weekly feature here on Houblog before Kevin talked me into moving them to BlogHouston. I suspended them for several months owing to lack of time (they’re a pain to do!) but resumed them last week. Rather than the complete writeup I was doing before, I’m now hitting only the high points. This week’s was delayed until tonight, owing to real life. See you over there!