August 2005 - Page 13 of 16

Guns, Guns, Oh My (Cont'd)

August 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

It certainly took the Chronicle editorial board a long time to react to Rep. John Culberson’s border-control proposal, especially given the predictability of the reaction: The answer to understaffed federal security agencies, including the Border

It's time to celebrate the Ship Channel's improvements

August 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

The project to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel is complete: Earlier this year, the port had said the $638 million project — which was first proposed in 1969 — was just about finished.

The Houston Conspiracy Theory

August 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

Sedosi has been drinking thinking, and says he has figured out what’s really going on in Houston. My favorite line: James Howard Gibbons looks terrible in heels.

CenterPoint's zero-tolerance policy for trees

August 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

CenterPoint Energy has been in a tree-cutting mood: When Bill Coats looked out the window of his law office and saw tree-trimming crews for CenterPoint Energy cutting down more than 20 blooming crepe myrtles, he

Demystifying the embryonic stem-cell debate for the Chron

August 5, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sen. Bill Frist (R), no doubt a Chron editorial board “bad guy” for his role in the Terri Schiavo affair, is now in the good graces of the editorial board for his recent change of

Best of Westchase

August 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

Houston’s Westchase District is running a Best of Westchase contest. You can vote here.

Three incidents and not a wrecker in sight

August 5, 2005 Kevin Whited

I just drove on the Southwest Freeway northbound from the Galleria to the Main Street exit. I saw one wreck (involving two cars, with a fire truck on the scene), one broken-down vehicle, and a

Because the Jessica Simpson stories couldn't be bumped

August 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

Texas blogger Eric Siegmund received a nice write-up recently in his local paper about tomorrow’s Blogathon. Cool! Closer to home, our own Laurence Simon will be participating in the Blogathon (he has generated more pledges

Chron D.C. bureau: More olds you need to know

August 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sedosi Alhambra sounds a familiar refrain in response to today’s “olds” from Bennett Roth of the Chronicle‘s lackluster D.C. bureau. Alhambra does, however, call attention to this amusing paragraph in the Roth reporting: Deriding the

The Bill White Vermin And Solid Waste Memorial Park

August 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Todd Spivak reports in the Houston Press that one of the stranger priorities of the White Administration, a new downtown park, is off to some kind of start: We walk the winding pathways together. Most