August 2006 - Page 8 of 13

Fuller: Sanctuary referendum will not make it to 2006 ballot

August 14, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740’s Brent Fuller is reporting that a group trying to change Houston’s sanctuary policy will not be able to place the issue before voters this fall: The offical deadline to put any City of Houston

Editorial LiveJournalists defend Texas Futile Care Law

August 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Editorial LiveJournalists addressed the Texas Futile Care Law on Saturday. We have previously discussed the Texas Futile Care Law as applied to several Houston cases. Essentially, the law authorizes hospitals to terminate the care

Sallee: METRO forced to ponder Westpark rail options

August 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

Rad Sallee assesses the current state of the Westpark rail debate in a Chronicle article today. No excerpt can really do the article justice, so here’s a link. Earlier today, Ted Richardson (who opposes light

Editorial LiveJournalists blast away on "sanctuary" semantics

August 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

Earlier in the week, the Editorial LiveJournalists had that gaffe (still uncorrected) on airport security. On the same day, the Editorial LiveJournalists used the Harris County GOP’s promotion of a petition drive to continue a

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston

August 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

My eldest son and I spent this morning volunteering at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston Back-to-School Fair held at the Family Christian Center in Sugar Land. It was a tremendous event that

Double standard on jury-pool pollution?

August 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the Chronicle ran what was effectively a press release from Mike DeGuerin, the attorney for former TSU president Priscilla Slade: The lawyer for fired Texas Southern University President Priscilla Slade accused Harris County’s district

Bomb scare turns out to be false alarm

August 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle reports that a bomb scare at Helfman Dodge yesterday on the Katy Freeway turned out to be a false alarm, although media reports have given precious little information about the device that caused

Numerous road closures this weekend

August 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle has posted a good roundup of what seems like more than the usual weekend road closures. There is no word from METRO whether double trains will be running to compensate.

KTRK's Oberg blogs from London

August 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 has dispatched reporter Ted Oberg to London to cover the latest terror scare. Oberg is keeping a blog/journal while he’s there, located here. It’s not clear if the trip is going to produce much

Chron misstates current carry-on rules

August 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists made a pretty big factual gaffe in their statement on airport security measures today: What followed at U.S. airports is bound to have the public wondering. Security officials canceled some flights