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ACS gets contract to develop Metro's "smart card" system

January 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

More than two years after Metro was supposed to have a working “smart card” fare system, and one year after Metro stopped paying Cubic Corp. to produce that system, Metro has awarded a contract to

Great news for Houston taxpayers is bad news for Mayor White

January 11, 2006 Anne Linehan

All that economic boom euphoria Mayor White was basking in last week had a bit of cold water thrown on it Monday: In a defeat for Mayor Bill White’s administration, a district court has ruled

HISD: rewarding good teachers and discouraging cheating

January 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

This week HISD’s board will vote on Dr. Saavedra’s teacher bonus program: The intricate, multi-tiered plan — touted by the Houston Independent School District as being among the most aggressive incentive plans in the country

Put out an APB: HPD's productivity policy is missing (updated)

January 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13 reports: Officers wrote fewer citations in 2005. That may be good for drivers, but the city needs the money generated from all those fines. Officers issued fewer tickets last year because they were busy

Texas AG asked to weigh-in on red light cameras (updated)

January 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

Is Houston one of the Texas cities requesting permission to put red light cameras on state roads? The Texas Department of Transportation has asked Attorney General Greg Abbott to decide whether the agency can install

Chron: erroneous miner story was a "pardonable sin"

January 9, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday Chronicle Reader Representative James Campbell explained how the paper’s goofed-up miner story was most certainly a forgivable error: But if there is such a thing as a pardonable news media sin, this story offers

More on Chron's new cartoonist

January 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Chron wants that P-word added to its stable so bad: Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Nick Anderson had joined the editorial page staff of the Houston Chronicle. Anderson was recognized as the best political cartoonist

HPD bans tattoos, goes after beards

January 7, 2006 Anne Linehan

In an effort to get Houston’s crime problem under control, Chief Hurtt will leave no idea untried: The Houston Police Department’s new dress code is now in effect. It became department policy on January 1

A skeptical look at N.Y. Times story in today's Chronicle

January 7, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Big Front Page story today is this New York Times piece on inadequate body armor supplied to Marines in Iraq: A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of

Does this mean Metro's not holding a public meeting?

January 7, 2006 Anne Linehan

So, instead of actually fixing the messed up date on the public meeting notice that was actually an old press release, Metro just decided to get rid of the notice. Here’s the post from the