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Moving on and moving in

November 16, 2004 Anne Linehan

Heflin team in limbo over election challenge: Many in Capitol ready to move on after defeat by Vo (from the Chronicle): Although veteran Republican state Rep. Talmadge Heflin still is contemplating a challenge to his

The Chronicle is right, but late

November 15, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s top editorial this morning is about HISD’s finalist for superintendent: After a perfunctory search, HISD trustees appoint the first Hispanic to be superintendent, a job thatapparently was his from the start. Abelardo “Abe”

TranStar gets a nod

November 15, 2004 Anne Linehan

Houston’s TranStar gets a mention in this Reuters story on CNN.com about websites that help commuters: The Greater Houston Transportation and Emergency Management Center provides a real-time traffic map with color-coded trouble spots in addition

Updated flood maps

November 15, 2004 Anne Linehan

After the widespread flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, FEMA and the Harris County Flood Control District formed the Tropical Storm Allison Recovery Project: When the local rains finally eased, Allison had left Harris

Quannel X found guilty of reduced charge

November 15, 2004 Kevin Whited

Dale Lezon reports that the jury has reached a verdict in the Quannel X trial: A jury today found Quanell X guilty of fleeing a police officer, a lesser offense than the charge of evading

Avoiding Metro Rail like the plague

November 14, 2004 Anne Linehan

Here’s a smart driver’s education teacher: Steve Trimble has been teaching driver’s education for more than 20 years and owns Courtesy Driving School of Katy. [snip] “People say, `It’s a driver’s ed. car, stay away.’

Recollection day at the Chronicle

November 14, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s three partisan staff editorialists must be worn out from all the electioneering and “bad guy” articles they’ve penned through the election season. That’s the best explanation I can manage for today’s “recollection series,”

Those Mr.'s can be tricky

November 14, 2004 Anne Linehan

Here’s an amusing edit job by the Chronicle of a N.Y. Times story. It’s a piece about Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada who is expected to become the new Senate minority leader. Sen. Ben Nelson

Sorting out the Quanell/Bradford/HPD/media confusion

November 13, 2004 Kevin Whited

Testimony in the Quanell X trial ended this week, with Quannel X’s attorneys contending that he had a deal to bring in cop-shooter Derrick Forney and HPD brass contending there was no such deal in

Editorial contortions, Chron style

November 13, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s editors really betray themselves as dull thinkers sometimes. It’s far-Left conventional wisdom that John Ashcroft is an evil man who lives for the chance to lock up innocents and turn America into a