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Month: February 2008

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Reliant Q-Card readers dysfunctional on first night of Rodeo activities

February 29, 2008 Kevin Whited

Last night was the first night of the Rodeo cookoff festivities. Laurence Simon reports that neither of METRO’s Q-Card readers on the Reliant Danger Train platform was actually working. He adds, The end of paper

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The Pat Lykos yarmulke controversy

February 29, 2008 Kevin Whited

The proprietor over at the Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center blog has been having some fun for quite some time with the Pat Lykos yarmulke controversy. “What Pat Lykos yarmulke controversy?,” most

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Dangerous time/place/behavior update (River Oaks again!)

February 29, 2008 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 reports on another dangerous time/place/behavior situation: Houston police are checking out leads and hoping the public will help track down two men who kidnapped a River Oaks resident Thursday. A $5,000 reward is being

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Mayor unveils latest strategy to curry favor with anti-Ashby highrise constituents

February 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

One of our early objections to the poorly-considered ordinance that Mayor White proposed when well-heeled constituents demanded he stop the Ashby high rise was the amount of discretionary power that it would have bestowed on

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And from the newspaper that largely missed the Enron meltdown?

February 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

Today, the New York Times had this interesting tidbit tucked away in its latest story on Roger Clemens: In a letter sent to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, the House Committee on Oversight and Government

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KTRK's Dolcefino continues investigation of county government (02/27/2008)

February 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

Last night, KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino continued his look at some of the relationships between Harris County government and private industry. A teaser won’t really do this one justice (although it speaks volumes that County Judge

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Spivak: Barack Obama and me

February 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

This week’s Houston Press has an interesting story by Todd Spivak on Barack Obama. Spivak covered Obama when he was an Illinois state legislator, and has some interesting insight on the presidential candidate. We generally

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Klein ISD superintendent: Most residents favor bond

February 28, 2008 Anne Linehan

A new Chronicle story by Kim Jackson quotes Klein ISD superintendent Dr. Jim Cain as saying most of the residents he has spoken with favor a bond proposal that includes $130 million to raze and

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The indirect costs of public boondoggles

February 27, 2008 Kevin Whited

When public officials assure us that no public money will be expended on various boondoggles, we generally are skeptical. Sometimes, the language simply changes over time and the pol hopes nobody really notices (or tries

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KTRK sues (again) for sheriff's department emails

February 27, 2008 Kevin Whited

METRO isn’t the only local public institution that is being less than helpful with regard to public information requests. As KTRK-13’s Ted Oberg reports, his television station has gone back to court to try to

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