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Remember the city's proposal last year to set a 10 p.m. curfew for kids under age 17? It never really went anywhere, and now City Council is trying again: Yesterday, councilmembers began discussing a proposal to set Houston's juvenile curfew at 11 p.m. HPD Assistant Executive Chief Mike Thaler told councilmembers that the earlier curfew — it's now set at midnight on weekdays — would not only help curb juvenile crime, but would also give...

More on the possibility of the city having to hold a costly special election to fill Shelley Sekula-Gibbs' vacant City Council seat for a few months: According to the Chronicle, Mayor Bill White plans to ask the state Legislature for some leeway in the election law that would require a special election. The issue: A special election couldn't be held before May, meaning that whoever won it would have to run again in a general election in November — and a special election plus runoff, if one were needed, would cost the city $3 million. That's a lot of money to put someone on council for six months, White said:

So we've heard a lot lately about the city's attempts to clean up graffiti. Given that, it's not surprising — kind of dumb, but not surprising — that a weekend graffiti-art event is ruffling some feathers.

Houstonist doesn't know if you realized it, but Houston is trying to put itself on the cutting edge of water meter technology with meters that read themselves, sorta. Problem is, it doesn't seem to be working. As KPRC reports, the automated metering system is years behind schedule and millions over budget — and the new meter reading system has a 47 percent failure rate.

Agents from the city Office of the Inspector General raided the office of Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado today, taking equipment and putting employees on administrative leave after the city finance director got reports of payroll irregularities.

prostitution would take place. After all, these days it's getting harder to tell the hookers from the non-hookers. That's apparently the concern of some councilmembers:

City Council delayed a vote this week on a proposal to ban people under the age of 16 from soliciting donations for charity on Houston streets. Instead, councilmembers decided to make the discussion broader — now it's about cutting the number of homeless window-washing panhandlers.