Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Republic Waste pays big fine for overcharging city

April 11, 2006 Anne Linehan

Republic Waste Services, which provides Houston with trash collection services, agreed to pay $2 million after Controller Annise Parker’s audit showed Republic had overcharged the city. via KHOU-11’s News Blog UPDATE: Let me amend that.

Greater Houston Partnership enters University line fray

April 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee brings us the news that the Greater Houston Partnership is backing Metro’s efforts to consider a Richmond light rail line, without the need for a new referendum: The Greater Houston Partnership, whose clout

A letter to Houstonians from Chief Hurtt

April 9, 2006 Anne Linehan

via the Chronicle: The city of Houston remains a safe place to live, despite reduced [police] staffing and an increasing population. While any increase in crime, especially violent crime, is unacceptable, I believe Houstonians should

Self-righteous armchair warrior punditry…from a comfy office

April 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday the editorial LiveJournalists told us that it’s not okay for some to practice free speech, especially when what they are saying is wrong or offensive. The editorialists take three people — a missing soldier

New parking meters: world class, cutting edge AND trailblazing!

April 6, 2006 Anne Linehan

From KHOU-11’s story: This project represents the nation’s first parking meter system that does not rely on a cellular network but will communicate using a dedicated 802.11g WiFi network. Uh oh. Why does that sound

Mayor White: fighting crime takes time

April 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday Sedosi highlighted Mayor White’s plea for Houstonians to hang in there while the city fights crime: Basically the theme of his message is: “just wait, and try not to get shot or killed while

Trainloads of Metro meetings

April 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Metro meetings page is filled with opportunities to discuss the new University line. Also, Rep. John Culberson will be holding a town hall-type meeting on April 12: The April 12 town hall meeting will

Where are the editors? (con't)

April 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

Check out the Chron oops Tom Kirkendall found in a story about witness preparation that referenced Martha Stewart’s trial: Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Except when you realize that Stewart elected not to testify during her

Chris Baker on the Chavez baseball coach story

April 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

Chris Baker went off on quite a rant against HISD in the Chavez baseball coach incident. Chris berated HISD spokesman Terry Abbott because the district hasn’t fired Rudy Rios. I agree Rudy Rios shouldn’t be

Council approves "cutting edge" parking meters (updated)

April 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

City Council has approved a $15 million contract for 1,500 world-class parking meters. The company awarded the contract? ACS. We last heard of ACS as a red light camera contender, and in January, Metro chose