OK, so Houston's Buffalo Bayou isn't exactly the Seine. In fact, among urban rivers, it's one of the ugliest, a big, muddy stream that floods regularly.

"If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay public."

The name of the game for enterprise architecture is linking all the technological systems a government uses.

People may not care how clean the average street is, but they sure want to know how their street compares to others.

When it comes to expanding public transit to fight traffic congestion, a potentially viable approach is bus rapid transit.