Welcome to “pitch day,” where inmates practice and prepare for an upcoming business plan competition managed by the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), a Houston-based nonprofit that turns incarcerated men into aspiring business owners. During this important dress rehearsal as they prepare for their final examination, inmates receive feedback from mostly local business leaders. At a…
J.W. “Jay” Wall III, commercial broker at Moody Rambin and vocal opponent of the dedicated bus lanes On traffic changes:”People are not going to be able to get out of their office buildings, they aren’t going to be able to make left turns. There’s going to be light preemption — they say there’s not going…
In 2008, I suggested that the Wall Street Journal’s Carl Bialik look into the under-reporting of murders by the City of Houston: Houston has been undercounting its murders in recent years, according to a local television-news investigation. The developing story, which this week raised the ire of a Texas Congressman and former judge, has illustrated…
CRIME STOPPER The Big Apple’s innovative CompStat policing system took a big bit out of crime. It can happen here, too. ALAN HELFMAN, JAY WALL and WILLIAM A. WOLFF The time has come for Houston to adopt a fundamental change in policing similar to programs implemented in New York City and Boston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Baltimore,…
After the Enron collapse, Houston office vacancy rates soared to 15.5%. Barron’s covered the collapse: “The vacancy rate will go higher as the providers [lawyers, accountants, other professionals] that serviced the energy traders cut back, or as in the case of Andersen go out of business,” says Jay Wall, a vice president with the Houston office…
