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New giraffe at the Houston Zoo

March 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Houston Zoo is welcoming a new resident: an adorable baby giraffe: The male giraffe was 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed 102 pounds at birth on Wednesday, zoo officials said. A contest will

Computers, Blackberry devices seized from Alvarado council office

March 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 reports that computers and Blackberry communicators have been seized from Carol Alvarado’s district council office: With subpoenas in hand, officials with the Harris County District Attorney’s office removed at least six computers and six

The process of sunshine in government

March 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Lisa Viator writes an interesting story today, about how an entity — in this case HISD — handles open records requests: “The public information request process is a valuable way to disseminate information,

Now it's Gordon Quan's initials that may have been forged (updated)

March 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

Local media keeps digging and this time it’s the Chron‘s Matt Stiles who has the latest twist in the scandal at the Mayor Pro Tem’s office: Another memo found in the City Hall office where

KPRC: DA bonusgate investigation to start from scratch

March 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the Harris County District Attorney’s office will be starting over with the investigation of financial irregularities in the Mayor Pro Tem’s office: The Harris County district attorney said the investigation into the

Editorial LiveJournalists praise… Rosenthal?

March 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the Chronicle reported that Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal would honor a request from the Innocence Project to review 45 HPD crime lab cases that an independent investigator deemed troubling: Harris County District

Metro Board Meetings today

March 16, 2006 Anne Linehan

It’s Metro Board Meeting Thursday. The Future Programs Committee Meeting looks as if it has a full agenda of future-type stuff (related to new rail lines?), and the Operations Committee Meeting will include discussion of

Osteen nails multimillion-dollar book deal

March 15, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran a New York Times story on local pastor Joel Osteen’s big new book deal today: Multimillion-dollar book deals are usually the realm of presidents, popes and Federal Reserve chairmen, plus the occasional

TSU regents call emergency meeting to discuss Slade (updated)

March 15, 2006 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that an emergency meeting will be held by the regents of Texas Southern University Thursday to discuss the future of President Priscilla Slade: The Texas Southern University’s Board of Regents will hold the

Month: March 2006

New giraffe at the Houston Zoo

Computers, Blackberry devices seized from Alvarado council office

The process of sunshine in government

Now it's Gordon Quan's initials that may have been forged (updated)

KPRC: DA bonusgate investigation to start from scratch

Editorial LiveJournalists praise… Rosenthal?

Metro Board Meetings today

More problems with HEC and HPD response times (updated)

Osteen nails multimillion-dollar book deal

TSU regents call emergency meeting to discuss Slade (updated)