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Month: April 2005

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The Chronicle covers Laurence Simon — the San Francisco Chronicle

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

blogHOUSTON favorite Laurence Simon is featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about dead pools: For hundreds of millions of religious followers around the world, last week’s passing of Pope John Paul II was a

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Chronicle "balances" its DeLay coverage

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Whoa! There are three (count ’em — THREE!) letters today in support of Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Here’s one: Spreading partisan nonsense I am tired of the Chronicle’s vendetta against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay because

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The Chronicle DOES know Rep. Noriega is in Afghanistan

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Remember that Chronicle editorial that said Rep. Rick Noriega is serving in Iraq? (Rob Booth at Lone Star Times caught it and pointed out that Noriega is serving in Afghanistan.) The Chronicle never issued a

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Now Fort Bend County wants to take over its part of the Grand Parkway

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Following up on these posts about state Sen. Jon Lindsay’s bill that would allow a county toll road authority to take over a TXDoT project to expedite construction and then transfer the property back to

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City should be wary of Cubic parking meters

April 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

I’m sure everyone is aware that Houston is trying out some new parking meters downtown, but there was one interesting bit of information at the end of Lucas Wall’s story that really should have received

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Metro sees nothing wrong with dangerous intersection

April 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 ran a story last night about a particularly bad intersection downtown, with unclear signage, faded lane markings and…the Danger Train: Accident after accident appears to be waiting to happen at the intersection of Wheeler

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Another manifestation of HPD's manpower shortage

April 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

If you think you’ve seen more graffiti around Houston lately, you’re probably not imagining it. The increased defacement of property citywide comes after HPD (under the direction of the dynamic duo of White/Hurtt, no doubt)

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Banjo Jones: The "golden age" of Houston columnists

April 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Remember back when Houston was a three newspaper town? Yeah, that was before my time too. But Banjo Jones has the details over at his blog.

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Who knew bankers care so little about numbers?

April 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Matt Bramanti discovers the latest problem on the Chronicle letters page. Today, the newspaper printed a letter that asserted: More than 226,000 children and 104,000 adults are raped every year in Texas, and most of

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HCTRA fulfilling developers' dreams with Grand Parkway

April 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

Some Spring residents who are in the path of the proposed Grand Parkway are receiving survey notices from the Harris County Toll Road Authority: Homes in north Harris County could soon be up for sale

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