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Planned Parenthood op-ed

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Peter J. Durkin, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas Inc., has an op-ed in today’s Chronicle headlined, “A world where every child is loved, cared for, wanted.” The column is

HISD's dropout prevention specialists fly into action

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Following up on yesterday’s post about HISD aggressively trying to get 900 seniors to pass one or more TAKS tests to graduate, here are the details on how the first day of the summer program

Loren Steffy's blog

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

I just noticed Chron.com has added a blog by Loren Steffy, called “Full Disclosure“: Welcome to Full Disclosure, my new blog for business-related topics and perhaps a few other things. I hope to use this

Adult supervision required

June 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle ran a story last week in which Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal criticized HISD for conducting its own investigation into the Margaret Stroud mess. According to Jason Spencer’s story (uh oh), Rosenthal said

An alternative perspective on "In Harm's Way"

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

H. Sterling Burnett has penned an interesting and provocative response to a January 2005 Chronicle story on area air quality that was ominously entitled “In Harm’s Way.” Here’s an excerpt: According to the U.S. Environmental

Banking industry mysteries on the Chron letters page

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Anne Linehan commented earlier on the HISD angle to a letter printed in today’s Chronicle. There’s another problem with that letter, a problem that’s consistent with the newspaper’s long-term treatment of Harris County DA and

The future of Houston's METRO?

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Both Tom Kirkendall (Houston’s Clear Thinkers) and Tory Gattis (Houston Strategies) call attention to the first of a series of Washington Post articles on problems with D.C.’s mass transit agency (Metro), and wonder if Houston’s

Looking dapper

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

HPD chief Harold Hurtt is looking very dapper in his uniform. Ever since the chief met the qualifications to wear the uniform of a police officer in the state of Texas, we’ve been waiting for

HISD goes all out to graduate 915 seniors who still need to pass TAKS

June 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has announced an intensive summer program for the 915 seniors who didn’t pass the TAKS test needed to graduate. HISD spokesman Terry Abbott sent out a release with the details: Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra ordered

The end of the downtown parking meter tryouts

June 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

In today’s Move It! column, Rad Sallee reports that the downtown parking meter tryouts are over. City council will decide in July which company gets the contract and the first meters should be in place