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Parks employee suspended after arrest

January 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeff Mcshan reports the following disturbing news A city of Houston employee who is suspected of being a child predator was suspended from his job Wednesday. Thomas Randall Jennings, 55, works for Parks and

Lindsay to endorse Hamric

January 18, 2006 Anne Linehan

Sedosi notes that state Sen. Jon Linsday will endorse Rep. Peggy Hamric for SD 7, which makes absolute perfect sense to me. Hamric is in favor of the Grand Parkway F2 segment being built through

Tomorrow is Metro board meeting day

January 18, 2006 Anne Linehan

Metro will be holding board meetings tomorrow, which means today we get a hint of what will be discussed. The agendas make for some interesting reading. Let’s dive in: 4. Expression of METRO’s support for

A Ken Hoffman fix every Wednesday!

January 18, 2006 Anne Linehan

It’s Wednesday (I have a calendar, unlike Metro) and Pat Gray is explaining the new lineup for KPRC-950 on Wednesday mornings. Since Councilman Michael Berry has Council obligations on Wednesdays, Pat Gray will do an

Danger Train power outage means downtown cars are safe

January 18, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday Laurence was joyful because he’d had a perfect METRO day. Today everything is back to normal. Metro apologizes for the inconvenience to dozens of riders. (And again, buses save the day.)

Flawed Chron/Murray/Stein survey continues to draw attention (updated)

January 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

David Benzion posts that Dr. David Hill of Hill Research Consultants was interviewed yesterday by Fox News (national) about the flaws in that poll on Tom DeLay that the Chronicle rushed to the field following

HPD's manpower shortage (cont'd)

January 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

HPD’s multi-faceted attempt to address increasing crime and decreasing manpower may soon include luring police officers away from other Texas police departments: “I’m sorry. it’s business,” said Lt. Kenneth Miller of the Houston Police Department’s

War on terror moves to Pakistan, upsets Chron editorialists

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists tried to get all serious today. They’re REALLY upset about the drone attack on terrorists in Pakistan: WHEN missiles from an unmanned CIA Predator aircraft slammed into the Pakistani village of

Why bother with details in crime reporting?

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s crime reporting takes an interesting, if not entirely informative, turn today: Police are searching for four men who smashed a jewelry case inside the Memorial City Mall this morning and ran off with

Extra! Extra!

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

Stop the presses. A little-known Democrat with no chance of winning invoked Tom DeLay’s name in the 7th Congressional District. This merited 10 paragraphs of coverage in the Chronicle today. It’s not clear why. BLOGVERSATION: