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Month: March 2006

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City of Houston Parking Management website

March 13, 2006 Anne Linehan

The City of Houston’s new Parking Authority now has a dedicated website. It includes FAQ’s, parking tips and a section on how to resolve tickets. Unlike other cities’ parking authorities, this site does not include

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Are you in the market for a parking garage?

March 13, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Fannin Street Garage at 1112 Clay Street is for sale. PowerPoint display and relevant links are here. Happy bidding!

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Food and drink roundup (03-12-2006 edition)

March 12, 2006 Callie Markantonis

It’s time for a Sunday night food and drink roundup. Let’s get started, shall we? Alison Cook hopes downtown’s El Centro Restaurant sticks around for a while. She has also started an excellent new Chron

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Chron explains last week's embarrassing editorial

March 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

Chron Reader Rep. James Campbell has a column in today’s Outlook section on that embarrassing editorial oops from last Sunday. He also wrote a blog post about it last week and the comments are quite

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City's credit rating outlook downgraded

March 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

dBusinessnews Austin reports that Houston’s credit outlook has been downgraded: Fitch assigns an ‘AA-‘ rating to the $63.8 million taxable pension obligation bonds, series 2006A; $23.2 million public improvement refunding bonds, series 2006B; and $3.5

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Chron's Mason interviewed in National Journal Hotline

March 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

The National Journal’s Hotline just ran an interview with Chronicle White House correspondent Julie Mason. The Hotline is subscriber-only, but here’s a brief, fair-use excerpt of the interview: What is your favorite book and why?

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Covering the news important to journalists

March 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

Today, the Chronicle is back to pushing its favorite special-interest legislation (of course they don’t call it that — special interests are things that other groups want but that the Chronicle executive editorial leadership opposes).

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A dented file cabinet — Bonusgate intrigue?

March 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

I am wondering if this story about a dented city council file cabinet: Damage to a locked cabinet containing documents from the Office of Mayor Pro Tem, which is at the center of a payroll-padding

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Houston's hurricane response leads to online water bill payment

March 9, 2006 Anne Linehan

Rich Connelly found a letter from Mayor White in his latest water bill that explains the city’s new online payment system is courtesy of the city’s generous outreach to Katrina evacuees…or something like that: Houstonians

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Were "values" the deciding factor in DeLay/Patrick victories?

March 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran an editorial on the DeLay/Patrick Republican primary victories that reads more like two editorials. The first half of the editorial is a fairly straightforward explanation of why the two candidates won their

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