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Month: June 2006

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Chron comments on nine-day-old "news"

June 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

Back on June 13, Matt Stiles and Roma Khanna reported that Mayor White was dragging his feet on Michael Bromwich’s request for another $1.5 million to continue his investigation of the HPD crime lab. Today

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Latest crime acronym yields 300+ arrests (not thousands)

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

Remember last week when KHOU-11 excitedly reported on HPD’s sweeps of apartments: Houston police officers have been going undercover for weeks, arresting thousands. We questioned that figure at the time. As the Chronicle reports today,

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Crime lab's DNA division gains one-year accreditation

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the AP reported that the DNA division of the HPD crime lab is set to reopen after receiving accreditation: The DNA division of the Houston Police Department’s crime lab is set to reopen after

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Chron editorial board afflicted by summer silliness

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists have really been cranking out some doozies lately. You got the sense some summer silliness was getting underway when they recently compared some park space around a muddy bayou to San

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Councilwoman Alvarado: What sanctuary policy?

June 21, 2006 Anne Linehan

So now a petition drive has begun in an attempt to force a city-wide vote on how HPD should handle illegal immigrants: Deriding what they call the city’s “sanctuary policy,” about a dozen members of

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Marvin goes in for maintenance

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Marvin Zindler recently went in for some touch-up work: We received lots of calls from well-wishers through our switchboard on Monday, asking how Marvin’s doing. We wanted to let you know he’s doing fine,

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Chronicle: City's homicides are like hemlines and home prices!

June 20, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Mike Tolson penned a weekend article that uses “experts” to suggest rather strongly that growing public concern over rising violent crime (as measured in recent polling) is irrational. Here is one of Tolson’s

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Fired TSU president honored at Juneteenth event

June 20, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Leigh Hopper reports that fired university administrator and alleged thief Priscilla Slade was recognized at a prestigious Jones Hall event on Sunday: Eleven days after being fired from Texas Southern University for misspending

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The worst is over as the cleanup begins

June 20, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Eric Berger has the latest information on our weather and recovery: The good news, Blood said, is that the storms appear to be moving and not stalling over a single area to provide

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Metro regularly procrastinates on public information act requests

June 20, 2006 Anne Linehan

Tom Bazan comments here on Metro’s reticence in responding to TXPIA requests. He notes that his latest request had a deadline of last Friday and since he hadn’t received any response to his request (standard

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