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Anne Linehan is a co-founder of blogHOUSTON.
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An amazing Good Samaritan story

September 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

Banjo Jones has another must-read post: A Good Samaritan in Brazosport has leased 17 homes for refugees from Hurricane Katrina. They began arriving in vans from Houston about 3 o’clock this morning. There are 84

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Metro restructures; employees are laid off

September 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

From a Metro press release: METRO announced a restructuring to make basic improvements in the way it does business and shape the organization to stay focused on its mission. Employees were told that a variety

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Thursday morning Katrina links

September 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here are some local blogging and news highlights this morning: Tom Kirkendall has two terrific posts up this morning, one about the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based out of New Orleans, and

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Hurricane Katrina open thread

August 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

Due to the rapidly changing nature of news and events related to Hurricane Katrina and Houston, here’s an open thread post. We will be adding updates as we run across them, and we are encouraging

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The Houston welcome mat (updated)

August 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s a bit of good news for our Houston visitors: While evacuees of Hurricane Katrina are waiting to return home, the Houston Comets and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are trying to give them

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HISD steps up to provide schooling for hurricane refugee students

August 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has announced that it is ready to accept students who are stranded in Houston due to Hurricane Katrina: HISD officials contacted the Texas Education Agency Tuesday about guidelines for temporarily accepting the storm refugees

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The recipe for friendly Chronicle editorials

August 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s editorial board decided to throw some praise HISD’s way today, but first the reader has to make it through a scolding from the idealists. That’s typical for this editorial board. However, we think

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The four mile, forty minute bus ride

August 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee’s Move It! column details one Metro bus rider’s particularly bad experience: Jamie Maring writes that a 4-mile ride on a Metro bus “took 40 minutes and every part of the experience was unpleasant.”

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The welcome mat isn't out at the Hilton Americas

August 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last night during KHOU-11‘s Hurricane Katrina coverage, it was mentioned that many Houston hotels have put up their no-vacancy signs, with a notable exception: the city-owned Hilton Americas still had 600 rooms available (out of

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"Reach out to Dropouts" day success

August 28, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Jennifer Radcliffe has a nice write-up of yesterday’s efforts by HISD to convince dropouts to return to school: All told, 49 dropouts re-enrolled in school Saturday and another 657 committed to returning to

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