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Month: November 2005

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SEIU wins over janitors, sets sights on city employees

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

The city’s local media have engaged in a fair amount of cheerleading over the fact that the Service Employee’s International Union will be moving into Houston in order to better the lives of janitors citywide

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Law enforcement links MS-13 to organized crime in Houston

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Ted Oberg and KHOU-11’s Amy Tortolani seem to have attended the same briefing on shoplifing and MS-13. Here’s an excerpt from Oberg’s reporting: Organized crime is active in Houston and police say the crooks

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Council tables latest MediaSource vote

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Carolyn Campbell reports that Council today tabled a vote on a new contract for MediaSource, the controversial custodian of the public access cable channel. The contract apparently will impose (minimal) new screening requirements on

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Rick Casey: telephone-challenged AND school voucher-supporter?

November 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

The New York Times has had an ongoing problem with its star columnists either getting their facts wrong or making up facts out of thin air, and then refusing to issue corrections. The Chronicle‘s Rick

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Mayor comments on HPD's manpower problems

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

Nothing causes the White Administration to swing into action like negative reporting, and so several media reports on HPD’s worsening manpower woes and four hours of criticism from Chris Baker yesterday in response to Chief

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Metro's world-class fare collection system

November 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

via Laurence Simon: The farebox on the 9 bus this morning (#3331) was broken and covered up with a world-class plastic bag. I see this at least twice a week. Roughly, that’s a 10% failure

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Hatfield to step down as Rice football coach? (updated)

November 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

KRIV-26 reported last night that Ken Hatfield would be announcing he is stepping down at Rice. The Chronicle‘s Moisekapenda Bower reports that a press conference has been scheduled for 11 am. Beyond that, the column

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When definitions are inconvenient, change them

November 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle business section picked up an LA Times story on the sorts of raises workers might expect next year. The following line made it into the story: The salary increases reflect a continuing push

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Houston ranks 53rd in "literacy" study

November 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Houston Business Journal reports that Houston didn’t rank very highly in a study designed to measure overall literacy: A national study has placed Houston 53rd out of a total of 69 cities in a

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Public Works: You citizens should be more insistent we fix things!

November 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Carolyn Campbell reports on a problem with Houston Public Works: He warned them. A Houston man said he called the city to tell them about a destructive problem, but believes his words fell on

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