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Month: September 2007

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Trending in the right direction

September 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

Homicides in Houston are down fourteen percent from last year (via the Chronicle): Between Jan.1 and Sept. 17 last year, the city’s homicide count was 290, Police Chief Harold Hurtt said. In the same period

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Houston billionaires give to local politicians

September 23, 2007 Anne Linehan

The ever-enterprising Matt Stiles took last week’s list of Houston billionaires and gave it a local politics-angle: Business reporter Purva Patel has a story today about the Houstonians who made Forbes magazine’s annual list of

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Metro works for the "greater" good…all 0.9% of it

September 23, 2007 Anne Linehan

Last week I ran across this post on Reason’s Out of Control blog which included a link to some interesting data: Houston’s public transit market share in 2005 was 0.9%. For some clarification, Tom Bazan

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More supervisors listening in on police chases

September 22, 2007 Jason

Paige Hewitt writes in the Chronicle about HPD’s adding some items to its chase policy. Here is a post I did on my blog and in the Chronicle‘s blog pages about it: I read today’s

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Mayor White talks leadership…during the week he was lacking some

September 22, 2007 Anne Linehan

So, last week Mayor White admitted he lacked leadership by ignoring his instincts, and instead doing what Council wanted: “One thing I’ve learned from this experience is to go with my instinct,” said White, who

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Is Tilman over-compensated?

September 21, 2007 Anne Linehan

According to the Houston Business Journal, one group thinks he is: Proxy Governance Inc. said in its report issued Thursday that the compensation package of CEO Tilman Fertitta is more than 10 times that of

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The danger train strikes again

September 21, 2007 ubu roi

Well, while Kevin and Anne [woops! That should be Kevin and Callie!] are off to the sunny Near East, I’m picking up the slack a bit by noting that the Danger Train has struck (a

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Mayor White: Council made me do it! Really!

September 20, 2007 Anne Linehan

After yesterday’s Terminal C food contract passed by an 11-2 margin, Mayor White decided to play the victim: “One thing I’ve learned from this experience is to go with my instinct,” said White, who originally

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Might the driver have been an "undocumented" person?

September 19, 2007 Kevin Whited

A wild driver recently slammed into Westbury Animal Clinic. Here is the interesting description of the driver from the Chronicle‘s Betty L. Martin: The driver, who spoke no English and apparently had neither a driver’s

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Happy Birthday to us (and an announcement)

September 19, 2007 Kevin Whited

Anne Linehan reminded me a few days ago that the blog’s third birthday was approaching. Sure enough, our first posts here were on September 19, 2004. So, Happy Birthday to us! We weren’t quite sure

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