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Month: September 2009

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Texas Watchdog investigates adventures in no-bid contracting, METRO-style

September 30, 2009 Kevin Whited

Recently, we’ve seen Mayor Bill White skirt the city’s contracting rules to put the artist now known as The One* in place to clean up a BARC mess that had not previously been a priority

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Chron returns to topic of police shootings

September 28, 2009 Jason

The Houston Chronicle has returned to a favorite topic with this article about how shootings by law enforcement in Harris County have risen this year. According to reporter James Pinkerton, as of 24 September there

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Bill White's 9 Steps to Financial Freedom? (#2)

September 26, 2009 Kevin Whited

As reported by the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson, Senate Candidate Bill White recently warned voters to be wary of any new spending proposed by Houston’s mayoral candidates: White, who has shied away from endorsing or even

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Congrats to BH favs Cory Crow and Mike McGuff!

September 26, 2009 Kevin Whited

We’re a little behind on praising a couple more BH friends who won awards this week (from the corporate-posing-as-alt-media types…) It’s definitely worth noting that Village Voice Houston recently honored BH favs Cory Crow (Best

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Bill White's 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (#1)

September 26, 2009 Anne Linehan

Senate-candidate White donned his mayoral cap this week to caution Houston’s mayor-wannabes about excessive spending during the current recession (via the Chron’s Bradley Olsen): White warns against new spending Mayor tells voters to be wary

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KPRC's Dean reports on Park-and-Pillage failures; METRO tries to shield data from public

September 26, 2009 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2’s Stephen Dean reports that METRO’s ongoing experiment with camera surveillance as a replacement for live security officers at the Park-and-Pillage lots is still going poorly: The Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority reported that 271 camera

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KHOU's Greenblatt scores Emmy for stories on HPD homicide misreporting

September 24, 2009 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt just won an Emmy for his investigative series on HPD’s homicide misreporting. Recall that city officials once tried to smear Greenblatt for his reporting, before conceding his points. Congratulations to Greenblatt for

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Tyler Cowen and commenters address Houston, zoning, and land-use restrictions

September 23, 2009 Kevin Whited

Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution blog recently linked to this old (2005) paper by Michael Lewyn on “How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City without Zoning).” As readers well know, Houston does not have the

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Chronicle is (quietly) looking for some reporters

September 22, 2009 Kevin Whited

We’ve been hearing rumors from journalist friends attending conferences that the Houston Chronicle has been quietly advertising some jobs for a while now, but hadn’t been able to track down anything concrete (the Chron “reader

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Letter writer Andrew Prieditis visits with blogHOUSTON

September 21, 2009 Kevin Whited

While catching up on the Chron letters page back in August, we ran across a writer (Andrew Prieditis) who managed to have two letters published in one week, a violation of the newspaper’s stated letters

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