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- Metro will stop borrowing for mobility payments (Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle
Good. Now the organization needs to pay the City of Houston what it owes. By the way, kudos to various activists and citizen watchdogs who have kept the heat on METRO for its mobility evasions over the years. You’re doing the work the newspaper of record might do in other towns. - Greanias Presents Overview of Proposed New Budget (Write on METRO)
The “Old METRO”/”New METRO” propaganda was kind of cute for a while, but it’s probably about time to give it a rest. Or, they could go all in, and put a big picture of George Greanias on the side of the METRO building, like so many authoritarian regimes used to do after a change in leadership. - 3 storms on the hurricane map, only 1 to worry about (ABC13 Weather Blog)
- Houston crime up in 2009 (Christine Hall, Houston Business Journal)
- Harris County considers elections chief outside politics (Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle)
- New poll: Houstonians oppose drainage fee (KHOU-11 News)
- New poll: Voters weigh in on the future of Houston's Astrodome (KHOU-11 News)
- New Poll: Houstonians support the use of red-light cameras (KHOU-11 News)
- Red light camera fight heats up around Houston (Deborah Wrigley, KTRK-13 News)
- Why hasn't the Chronicle come out against . . . (Unca Darrell)
- Metro's Train Wreck (Live Oaks)
