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Month: March 2005

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Chron hard news: Illegal aliens want to become legal

March 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today’s Chronicle runs a story by Zeke Minaya on protests by immigrants in favor of immigration “reform” that concludes as follows: For Gladys Chibez, a 54-year-old housecleaner from Houston who was at the rally, change

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Chron: Schiavo GOP advocates are hypocritical, cynical, power-hungry

March 22, 2005 Kevin Whited

Readers here are probably sick to death of our comments on the Schiavo affair, even though we’ve tried to keep those comments within the context of local media, political, and medical issues. Still, it’s difficult

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Vonage's 911 service and journalistic responsibility

March 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

Texas is suing Vonage, the internet-based phone company, saying the company doesn’t make clear that its 911 service is a separate offering: Abbott said information about the type of emergency service Vonage offers is found

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Metro cuts bus routes and downtown trolleys

March 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro has finalized some “service improvements”: Effective Monday, April 4, METRO will discontinue three Local bus routes and the two Downtown Trolley routes due to low performance. These routes were given six months’ probation last

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A Houstonian gives back to his community

March 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

I need a feel-good story today. Desperately. KHOU-11 provides one: Every year Victor Washington’s company, Washington & Sons Air Conditioning and Heating, gives away dozens of window units and installs several furnaces, all free of

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Florida State dean is new UH provost

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

UH has chosen a new provost: After more than a year of searching, UH has found a new provost: Donald J. Foss, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University.

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HPD wants to use unpaid, reserve officers to fill the gaps

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s an eye-opening story in the Chronicle: Reserve officers — part-timers who work without pay but have full arrest powers — could return to the ranks at the Houston Police Department under a plan senior

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Houston gets world class DMN treatment

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Pegasus crew calls our attention to the weekend travel section of the Dallas Morning News, which featured a story on our own light rail train, a story on Houston museums and their architects, and

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Is KTRK spinning news ratings?

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various sources have noted the KHOU-11 news team’s recent ratings victories. Recently, a reader asked the Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman why KTRK-13 keeps saying it’s still tops: Q: About two weeks ago I read a piece

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Feeling our way through the end of life

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

In what has turned out to be an increasingly popular post in light of recent events, we criticized a recent Houston Chronicle editorial for what seemed like a callously indifferent regard for innocent (albeit impaired)

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