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Would you pay $10 to see these people play basketball?

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

This year the NBA All-Star game will be at the GRB on February 17, and for only $10 you can go and stargaze: In years past, the game has featured celebrities such as Sean P.

How to be an inflexible governmental agency

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday was a Hurricane Rita make-up day for HISD, to the chagrin of many students, undoubtedly, and Laurence Simon pointed out that taxpayer-funded Metro ran on a Sunday schedule, so any HISD students who normally

Can Texas' concealed handgun law fill in where HPD can't?

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

Chris Baker wants to know if Houston has lost the war on crime. I don’t know if I’d say Houston has lost the war, but Houston city Bigs need to get serious SOON, because it’s

Capers fired, Casserly to remain

January 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

There’s no reason to link to any “Capers is fired” stories, since we all knew it was coming. Somehow, Charley Casserly kept his job, although Bob McNair made it clear in his press conference that

Talking about the city: Berry subbing for Baker today

January 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Councilmember Michael Berry emails that he’ll be sitting in for Chris Baker again today on KTRH-740 (3 to 7 pm). He’s thrown out a couple of potential topics for input from bloggers and blog readers

Next time, visit the archives and not the Mayor's spokesman

January 1, 2006 Anne Linehan

In this Matt Stiles and Kristen Mack story previewing Mayor White’s next term, there is an odd paragraph toward the end: This summer White, along with Houston Independent School District officials, went door to door