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Anne Linehan is a co-founder of blogHOUSTON.
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Rep. Wong puts pressure on Metro to stick with Westpark line

January 25, 2006 Anne Linehan

Thanks to a blogHOUSTON reader for emailing a West U Examiner story about state Rep. Martha Wong and the (kinda, sorta) proposed Westpark light rail line: State Rep. Martha Wong’s office sent a confidential final

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House of Blues coming to Houston

January 25, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Houston Pavilions has landed a high-profile tenant: The developers of Houston Pavilions, a shopping, entertainment, office and residential complex planned for three blocks of prime downtown land, planned to announce at a press conference

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City of Houston to build parking garage under new downtown park

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

And here we thought the city was low on funds, since we have a problem with increasing crime and decreasing police manpower. Well, it looks as though Mayor White has found $21 million for a

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County wants to change the Sports Authority's mission

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Harris County wants to look at the Sports Authority’s mission to see if it should be changed: Harris County Judge Robert Eckels and county commissioners have approved an in-house review of the Harris County-Houston sports

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Ford Motor Company's loss is HPD's gain?

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

In the quest to find police recruits, HPD is going to…Detroit? Recent news out of the automobile industry has the department looking at other recruitment possibilities as well. “Ford is going to be laying off

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Shooing away Houston's homeless (updated)

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Houston is working hard to rectify a dismal seventh place showing in that meanest-cities-to-the-homeless report: Houston police today rousted dozens of homeless from downtown encampments in a sweep spurred at least partly by complaints from

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Finishing up the Brays Bayou urban tidal marsh project

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Check out KUHF’s (88.7) story on a pretty neat tidal marsh project along Brays Bayou: Set along Brays Bayou in southeast Houston, an urban freshwater tidal marsh is nearly complete, a unique project that will

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Thankfully, we have a vigilant watchdog media looking out for us

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Okay, here’s Rad Sallee’s story from last November about Metro’s cancelled, er, never scheduled public meetings: Last week, the Metropolitan Transit Authority abruptly canceled two public meetings on proposed changes in 59 of its 85

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Seeking a civic vision that actually benefits most citizens

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

John Wagner has an interesting post up about men who made a difference in Houston, specifically the Chronicle‘s former publisher Richard J.V. Johnson and Texas Commerce Bank’s former chairman Ben Love, both of whom died

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Pedestrian struck by Metro bus (with updates)

January 21, 2006 Anne Linehan

This is a terrible story: Metro Transit Authority confirmed that a woman was hit by a Metro bus Friday night at about 6:45 p.m. The woman, believed to be about 43 years old, had her

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