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Month: October 2008

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One million trees for Houston!

October 6, 2008 Anne Linehan

Awesome: Houston Mayor Bill White said the city would plant 1 million trees in the Houston area within the next five years. White joined with the Houston Parks Department, Trees for Houston, the Texas Department

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METRO's advantage: tax dollars

October 6, 2008 Anne Linehan

In today’s Move It! column (one of the last?), Rad Sallee talks about how Wall Street’s problems affect local transportation entities. Here are a couple of excerpts: County Judge Ed Emmett said the toll road

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DPW to city: Please give us $3.5 million more for water meters, and we PROMISE results by 2012

October 5, 2008 Anne Linehan

Nevermind that the original project was supposed to cost $50 million and be completed in 2003. Then in 2006, it was guesstimated the project would cost $75 million and be completed in 2008. So, here

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It's buyout time at the Chronicle!

October 3, 2008 Kevin Whited

A friend recently alerted us that buyouts were being finalized this week at the Chronicle Apparently, today is the day for some of the announcements. We presume this blog post from Julie Mason is related

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Texas Watchdog posts Council financial info online

October 1, 2008 Kevin Whited

Texas Watchdog, which announced a few weeks ago that it was looking into city ethics info that was supposed to be public but wasn’t, has now posted Council financial disclosures (which are also required to

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