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Year: 2009

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Fiscal woes everywhere, but no worries — Oliver Luck still wants his stadium!

December 22, 2009 Kevin Whited

News coverage of interest from a public finance industry publication: And as the board sorts out its financing plans for the three new stadiums, the authority is not even considering building a professional soccer stadium

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Holiday slowdown

December 22, 2009 Anne Linehan

IT’S TIME FOR US TO TAKE a little break from the blog as the Christmas weekend approaches. Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Whatever Holiday You Celebrate!

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Chron finally reports on HCGOP campaign-finance irregularities

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

THE CHRONICLE follows up on this week-old Texas Watchdog story about the Harris County GOP’s apparent campaign-finance reporting problems with… their own story. We’re surprised columnist Rick Casey never ran with this one, but perhaps

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Mayor White announces new adoption facility, slams critics

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reports on Mayor Bill White’s big announcement about a new $11 million pet adoption facility. Even though Snyder covered the recent mayoral race, in which then-Senate Candidate White warned the mayoral

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Kirkendall on the Fertitta financial dealings

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

TOM KIRKENDALL posts that Tilman Fertitta’s “wild Landry’s ride continues.”

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Kuffner lectures on…. copyright abuse?

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

DEM BLOGGER CHARLES KUFFNER calls out the Texas GOP for possible copyright abuse involving a political video. We had no idea Kuffner had become such a copyright puritan, given his own abuse of copyright laws

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The Chron editors’ wish list

December 20, 2009 Anne Linehan

The Chron’s editorial board has some suggestions, a wish list if you will, for Mayor-elect Annise Parker. Here are a couple of tidbits worth noting: The Houston Police Department’s layered command structure will allow the

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Slampo on Al Hoang, campaign finance scofflaw

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

SLAMPO notes that the campaign finance filings of newly elected District F carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang “make a mockery of the notion of ‘disclosure’ and hardly conform to the spirit of the law, much less

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AP: Chief Hurtt gives himself an A-

December 20, 2009 Kevin Whited

ACCORDING TO AN AP STORY, outgoing HPD Chief Harold Hurtt gives himself a grade of A- for his tenure in Houston. We liked Marc Campos’s take: “Of course, the Mayor-Elect’s grade is the only one

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Some insight on Senate-Candidate White’s mayoral prioritizing

December 19, 2009 Anne Linehan

WHAT’S THE STATUS OF THE CITY’S SORELY NEEDED NEW EMERGENCY RADIO NETWORK? 2005: “It’s not a problem that’s going to be solved in one day. It will be over a period of years,” said Mayor

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