May 2005 - Page 10 of 16

Consumer-friendly downtown parking meters?

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 adds to last week’s Chronicle story about the new downtown parking meters: City officials are overhauling the entire parking operation downtown, which includes installing new, consumer-friendly parking meters. [snip] Manuel Gonzales was perplexed. “I’m

HISD's math and science proposal, in Dr. Saavedra's own words

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s Dr. Saavedra, explaining why he’s proposing a change in the math and science requirements:

A world-class city for commerce and careers

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Houston may still be short of the elusive “world-class” status that some local municipal leaders, mass-transit enthusiasts, and editorial utopians long for, but it ranks highly in the latest Forbes rankings of Best Places for

Bill O'Reilly, Dan Patrick beat up Chronicle

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

(Bill O’Reilly and Dan Patrick) On May 10 the Chronicle ran an editorial that we dismissed as more of the usual nonsense. Bill O’Reilly, however, picked up on the editorial (which was posted on May

Mayor White takes HFD negotiations public

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, KUHF-88.7’s Capella Tucker and KHOU-11’s Doug Miller separately reported Mayor White’s comments that negotiators for the city of Houston and the city’s firefighters were bogged down in a disagreement about overtime compensation. Today, the

KPRC-2 breaks out sex offenders by zip code

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 has taken time from reporting on the weather dog’s diet to break out the number of sex offenders in Houston by zip code. The story is here. The Texas Sexual Offender searchable database is

HPD reallocates resources to deal with MS 13

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports that HPD is reallocating resources to deal with the MS 13 gang problem in Houston. That’s welcome news, of course, but this part of the report was revealing: About a year ago, as

HPD crime lab receives accreditation

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

HPD’s crime lab received some good news on Wednesday: Houston’s troubled crime lab took a giant step forward in getting the community’s confidence back, but there’s more work to be done. All operations of the

New Times alternarag doesn't like smoking ban

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Way back in March, the city passed a ban on smoking in restaurants. Today, the Houston Press offered up a feature on said ban (the tone suggests the author doesn’t much like it). That’s some

New nominees for Sports Authority

May 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

Mayor White has nominated five directors for the Sports Authority Board. Two are renominations and three are new nominations: Houston Mayor Bill White today announced five nominees for the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority Board of