May 2006 - Page 3 of 13

Mayors White, Nagin discuss getting evacuees back to New Orleans

May 25, 2006 Anne Linehan

KHOU’s News Blog has a post summarizing a meeting between Mayor White and New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin: The mayors of Houston and New Orleans are working on ways to get hurricane evacuees home again.

HISD's summer meal program (how will the LiveJournalists react?)

May 25, 2006 Anne Linehan

HISD is publicizing its summer meal program: Houston-area children ages 1-18 can enjoy free healthy meals starting June 1 at one of the more than 200 HISD schools participating in the HISD Summer Feeding Program.

Houston goes head-to-head with Medillin, Colombia

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Did you know that Houston is participating in a one-day competition? Mayor Bill White is asking citizens to exercise as part of a world-wide contest. The “Challenge Day” competition has Houston going head to head

If you watch your step and don't breathe, Houston is cleanest city

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Proving that there is an award for just about anything, Houston has been named the cleanest city, excluding dog poop and air quality apparently: Houston has been ranked as the nation’s “cleanest city” according to

Red light camera "trial and error"

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Look at what happened in Capitola, CA, with a fairly new red light camera program: The city of Capitola, California admits that it issued at least $9525 in bogus red light camera citations this month.

City staffers helped facilitate Alvarado's personal business meetings

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Matt Stiles has obtained some emails that indicate Councilwoman Carol Alvarado used city personnel to arrange meetings with a San Antonio businessman: City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado used at least four city employees to arrange meetings

Debate over day labor center heats up

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 and KTRH-740 report that city council, after a contentious public comments time yesterday, is likely to approve funding for a day labor site. KHOU’s story provides a taste of yesterday’s debate: “When we have

Slow posting; Rescheduled gathering

May 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

I’m heading off camping, and won’t be doing any posting for a few days (through the Memorial Day weekend). We have tentatively rescheduled the blogHOUSTON gathering at Byzantio for Wednesday, June 7. Final details to

City Council action

May 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

A couple of items were (temporarily) put on hold during today’s Council meeting. First, funding for a day labor site was tagged by Councilmembers Toni Lawrence, Pam Holm, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Michael Berry and Anne Clutterbuck

Chron frets that lethal injection might be painful

May 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

The LiveJournalists are concerned that death row killers might feel some pain when the lethal injection cocktail is administered: Because capital punishment is irreversible, it deserves the closest scrutiny, whether the issue is the evidence