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HISD students beat national average on Stanford 10 test

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD received some good news with the results of the Stanford 10 test: More than 165,000 HISD students in grades 1 through 11 took the Stanford 10 test or its Spanish-language equivalent, the Aprenda, and

May sweeps spinning shall begin (updated)

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Now that May sweeps has ended, Laurence Simon predicts how our local stations will spin the results. UPDATE: Laurence points out that the Chronicle‘s Mike McDaniel has a story in today’s paper and notes that

Wading through Grand Parkway spin

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last night’s Grand Parkway meeting was informative, spin-filled and fairly well-attended.

Grand Parkway meeting tonight

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tonight, Spring/Tomball residents have an opportunity to meet and hear from officials regarding the Grand Parkway: Please join us for a Town Hall meeting to address current developments with the Grand Parkway through Spring and

Mayor White, Houston savior

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Mayor White will be using this in his next campaign: Mayor Bill White owes his election in a landslide nearly two years ago to his image as a successful corporate executive who could sort out

Houston needs to focus on the right quality-of-life issues

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tory Gattis of Houston Strategies highlights Joel Kotkin’s new work, ” Urban Legends: Cities Aren’t Doing As Well As You Think”: Cities must return to a progressive focus on fixing their real problems–that is, the

Multi-agency task force targets MS-13

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

I was late checking the “This Week” sections and almost missed this story about Houston’s growing nightmare — MS-13: “Certainly southwest Houston is not the only part of the city where we have seen gangs,

Take the rest of the day off

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Laurence Simon had an eventful end to his lunch today. Just go read it.

No Super Bowl for Houston

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

But, but…we’ve got light rail. We’ve got empty downtown hotels. What about our new Central Park? We’ve worked so hard on our world-classness — what happened? Here’s the local coverage: the Chronicle, KHOU-11, KTRK-13 and

An early jump on the weekend

May 24, 2005 Kevin Whited

I’m getting an early jump on the weekend, away from the internet. Anne Linehan will be posting while I’m away, and will also be doing the BizRadio1320 show this Saturday, so be sure to tune