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Metro's new blog takes a three day weekend (updated)

January 13, 2007 Anne Linehan

After a grueling week of five, no wait, six posts, Metro’s new blogger is taking a well-deserved long weekend to recoup. She has obviously typed her fingers to the bone! Just for fun, let’s take

Lee P. Brown heads off to New Orleans

January 13, 2007 Anne Linehan

Offered up without comment (because it leaves one speechless): Houston’s former Mayor and Police Chief Lee Brown has been hired to help handle New Orleans’ growing crime problem. This comes one day after hundreds of

Not a very extravagant inaugural

January 13, 2007 Anne Linehan

Current headline on Chron.com: Corporations to pay bulk of Perry’s $2 ceremony And it’s been like that for several hours now. I don’t think our in-house grammarians have wepted, but considering the point of the

"I am the David Hasselhoff of the Danger Train"

January 12, 2007 Kevin Whited

METRO CEO Frank Wilson makes an appearance today on METRO Is Full of Crap! So, we’re admittedly biased in favor of hyperlocal blogging. But hyperlocal humor blogging takes it to a whole new level. Good

Unity, Houston style

January 12, 2007 Kevin Whited

Laurence Simon posts a few pointed comments about Houston’s feuding Martin Luther King celebration factions. As he makes clear, the squabbling “leaders” really should be ashamed of themselves.

News you CAN get elsewhere (cont'd)

January 11, 2007 Kevin Whited

As noted by Cory Crow earlier, the Chron city desk has been busy watching the morning television news again: Houston-area firefighters were kept busy overnight battling two blazes, according to morning televised reports. Crow says

KHOU analyzes Park and Pillage crime surge; METROblog spins

January 11, 2007 Kevin Whited

Wednesday, KHOU-11’s Jason Whitely followed up on an earlier story about the predictable surge in crime at METRO’s Park and Pillage lots after the agency decided to remove live security personnel: As we first told

Chron columnist still pushing for new soccer stadium

January 11, 2007 Anne Linehan

Check out the latest effort from the Chron‘s soccer columnist to stir up some interest in a new home for the Houston Dynamo: The Dynamo need a facility where they can control scheduling, concessions, parking

Harris County deputy acquitted

January 10, 2007 Kevin Whited

Over at Red Ink Texas, Rorschach brings us the news that a Harris County deputy charged with aggravated assault by a public official for shooting at a suspect during a car chase has been acquitted.

Mayor bows to reality on Council special election

January 10, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack reports that Mayor White has set a May election date to fill the seat once held by Doctor-former Congresswoman Shelley Sekula Gibbs, who resigned her seat to go to Washington for