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Month: April 2008

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Chron adds to Harris County government beat

April 10, 2008 Kevin Whited

Earlier today, Matt Stiles introduced the Chronicle‘s new Harris County government reporter, Liz Peterson. Tonight, she’s posting away on the Houston Politics blog — and is already asking more interesting questions than the Chron‘s metro/teen

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Do the restrooms have sponsors yet?

April 10, 2008 Anne Linehan

Via Swamplot and Lou Minatti we learn that Discovery Green is awash in brands/sponsors. Swamplot provides the list: McNair Foundation Jogging Trail Waste Management, Inc. Gardens Lindsey Waterside Landing & Garden Kinder Lake Anheuser-Busch Stage

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State Rep. Vo is a serial slumlord

April 10, 2008 Anne Linehan

After last week’s news that state Rep. Hubert Vo is a slumlord (who owns a $4.5 million mansion), the Chron’s Matt Stiles took a field trip to visit Vo’s other properties. What he found is

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UH academic: Enforcement of immigration laws damaging to immigrants!

April 9, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Susan Carroll reports that “immigrant rights” organizers are putting together a downtown protest march next month: Immigrant advocates in Houston on Wednesday called for supporters of comprehensive immigration reform to join a May

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KTRK wins another round in email fight; Sheriff undeterred

April 8, 2008 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Christine Dobbyn reports that the local ABC affiliate won another legal battle today in its effort to obtain emails from the Sheriff’s Department: 13 Undercover asked for thousands of deleted emails from Sheriff Tommy

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Chronicle reports on a deaf inmate's problems communicating; however, he communicated with a bat…

April 8, 2008 Jason

In this story the Chronicle takes the case of a young man who was in jail and who is deaf. Reporter Terri Langford addresses the issues of communicating with deaf people inside the Harris County

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Mayor White's gonna FIRE people if airport expansion runs over budget!

April 8, 2008 Anne Linehan

You probably heard yesterday that a big expansion is scheduled for Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental (via KHOU-11): Seven years and at least $1.2 billion from now, the outdated Terminal B will be five times

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The DA runoff race nastiness ends tomorrow

April 7, 2008 Kevin Whited

Tomorrow is the big runoff election for Harris County District Attorney. In the last week or so, the race has gotten particularly nasty. Pat Lykos, perhaps realizing that her temperament and lack of trial-lawyer experience

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Discovery Green is people! *

April 7, 2008 Kevin Whited

Discovery Green, Mayor White’s grand park is about to open officially, and we’ve started to see both national and local media coverage of the matter. Several days ago, the Chicago Sun-Times raved about the park

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Frank Wilson: We'll produce details after contract is signed

April 7, 2008 Anne Linehan

After we learned last week that the cost of METRO’s proposed new light rail lines rose astronomically, the Chron’s Rad Sallee asked METRO’s President Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson for his reaction. In essence, Frank says,

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