Results tagged “rosaparks”

There are a lot of problems with our public transportation here in Houston, some of which, such as confusing routes and lack of proper respect for Rosa Parks--only the most influential busrider ever--are less worrisome than others. Like, for example, the fact that they run over not just pedestrians, but their own workers, as this disturbing story from the Houston Press reports, and then don't do much about it.

A man who inexplicably broke through barricades and drove through a closed construction site in northwest Harris County died when he ran into an oncoming construction truck Two Colombians were sentenced to prison for their part in a $25M weapons-for-cocaine deal that involved a Colombian terrorist militia and two Houston businessmen Houston Metro buses didn't join in the national transit tribute to Rosa Parks Thursday becuase the transit authority said it had already honored her...