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Reports: UH to lose president to Auburn

March 19, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Birmingham News (via Houstonist) reports that University of Houston President Jay Gogue, an Auburn alum, has been named the sole finalist to become that institution’s president: University of Houston President Jay Gogue, a 1969

Denied Council candidate blasts city

March 18, 2007 Kevin Whited

Earlier in the week, the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles broke another interesting story from City Hall — this time on the inconsistent treatment of candidate applications by city officials in recent years. He followed that story

A perfect day to visit the Houston Zoo

March 18, 2007 Anne Linehan

We hadn’t been to the zoo in a while, so yesterday we took advantage of the great weather and headed out. The highlight of our visit was definitely Mac, the baby elephant. What a cutie!

PvW: Crime issue may hinder statewide run by White

March 18, 2007 Kevin Whited

Evan at Perry vs World posts some thoughts on Houston’s crime problem, and how it might hurt Mayor White if he eventually runs for statewide office: Crime has certainly lost some of its potency as

Death row inmate refuses food

March 18, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Allan Turner reports that a potential Chron Eye subject is refusing food: Life on death row, says Roy Lee Pippin — condemned for killing two men in a Harris County narcotics murder —

Daneshy: How to maintain Houston's dominance as energy capital

March 18, 2007 Kevin Whited

In an op-ed for the Chronicle today, Ali Daneshy, the director of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston, comments on Halliburton’s recent decision to relocate its headquarters to Dubai and what Houston can do

Tour de Houston

March 18, 2007 Anne Linehan

The city’s third annual bike ride was supposed to take place yesterday, but did it? I can’t find any local news coverage of the event. If you participated in it, let us know how it

The consequences of bad choices

March 17, 2007 Anne Linehan

Things have been a little slow lately, as far as the type of fodder that generally captures our attention. What we have seen all too much of in the news recently, though, are tragic stories

Sheila Jackson Lee heads for Sen. Clinton's cameras

March 17, 2007 Anne Linehan

We all know how Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee loves a camera, so it was amusing to read Isiah Carey’s post this afternoon: Several Houston news photographers were very upset with Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee. Those

I must be a Q-Tard for helping beta the Q-Card

March 16, 2007 Laurence Simon

(rant on) Pardon me, but there’s a chronic problem with Q-Card readers and Daylight Savings Time going on, to the point where today I had 3 out of 4 bad timestamps and got nailed for