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Month: March 2005

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AP story neglects Banjo Jones

March 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

Over the weekend, the Chronicle posted an AP article on blog-related firings to its website. The article makes no mention of our friend Banjo Jones, whose fine blog got him fired by the Chronicle early

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Is the Chronicle going to push for a Houston Parking Authority?

March 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here are the first paragraph and the last paragraph from today’s Move It! column. See if red flags start flying for you: Last week’s debacle with commercial vehicle loading zones has reinforced my view that

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Harsher smoking ban jeopardizes convention business

March 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

KPRC-2 is reporting that if City Council passes a harsher smoking ban than what Mayor White has proposed, the city could lose some big business: Sources told Local 2 Monday that if the ban passes,

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More than money is needed to fix three HISD schools

March 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

It is a given, in liberal/media circles, that public education ills could be fixed if the American public would quit being so stingy and give more money to schools. So we can only imagine the

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News and opinion all the same to Robison

March 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last week, Chronicle bureau chief Clay Robison penned his usual left-leaning weekend editorial, a strange practice for someone who is supposed to oversee objective news coverage from an entire bureau the rest of the week.

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Chronicle: Employees were FIRED! No, wait…take that back

March 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday, the Chronicle ran a story headlined, “Fired workers blast Aramark.” Today on page A2, in a little box, midpage, is this correction: Four Houston Independent School District cafeteria managers have received letters from their

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Beldar: Rather-worship poses as news

March 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today’s Chronicle features a puff piece by Mike McDaniel on CBS’s Dan Rather today. Local blogger William Dyer is not impressed: Even for a puff-piece, even for an op-ed, this string of distortions would be

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Does the Chron have an anti-HISD stance?

March 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

This Chronicle story is completely befuddling: Students in the Spring Branch school district performed better on the state-mandated Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills tests last year than the previous year, even though the passing

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More Metro "Startling Facts"

March 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

For a little Saturday humor, check out this Metro press release: WARNING: You Could Be Startled by These Facts March 3, 2005 The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County has come a long way since

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Weekend freeway changes and closures

March 4, 2005 Anne Linehan

If you drive Spur 527, remember that beginning tonight some changes will occur: Crews will close the outbound spur starting at nine Friday night. It will re-open early Sunday morning. Once the weekend work is

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