Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Metro asked why new rail line won't go down Westheimer

August 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee’s Move It! column covers last week’s Metro Mobility Series breakfast meeting: Afton Oaks residents worried about access to their homes and the fate of live oaks on the Richmond Avenue median aren’t alone

CenterPoint getting more heat for its anti-tree stance

August 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Local tree activists (Anne likes those!) are hot about CenterPoint’s “zero-tolerance policy” for trees. CenterPoint’s aggressive anti-tree policy stems from the massive Ohio blackout in 2003 and CenterPoint says it is following federal regulations that

Activists try to organize Houston's day laborers

August 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

According to this Chronicle story by Edward Hegstrom, local activists are trying to organize day laborers: Activists circulated among day laborers near Shepherd on Friday, hoping to organize the workers before the arrival of the

Houston is rolling in the dough

August 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Houston saw sales tax revenues jump almost seven percent in July: Houston’s sales tax payment reached $36.96 million in July, a 6.9 percent increase from $34.58 million the same month a year ago, according to

Bob McNair hopes for 2010 Super Bowl

August 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

With the news that Houston may have a shot at the 2010 Super Bowl, let’s remember what Ken Hoffman said after Houston lost out on the 2009 Super Bowl: The thing I wonder about is,

Residents fear proposed bike path will lead to crime

August 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

Some Southeast residents are fighting current plans for a bike path along an old railroad right of way in their neighborhood: Along a stretch of MacGregor, just east of Highway 288, state highway officials want

Editorials for Dummies

August 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

Owen Courreges and Sedosi tackled the Chronicle‘s oh-so-stupid editorial today comparing Cindy Sheehan to Rosa Parks. Maybe for their next editorial, the editors could write about the moms in this KHOU-11 story.

Dr. Saavedra = Al Capone?

August 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

What else is one to think after reading the first paragraph of Jason Spencer’s story today: The Houston Independent School District and a former charter school manager have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a

Metro's ridership is going down, down, down

August 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tom Bazan has received July’s ridership figures from Metro, and they are impressive — in a declining sort of way: Total System boardings dropped 7.2% from 7,654,803 in July 2004 down to 7,106,029 for July

Chron should shine a light on other "cozy connections"

August 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

blogHOUSTON is no fan of the Texas Enterprise Fund, but we think the Chronicle‘s editorial board has lost all right to be outraged about this. Where’s the editorial board’s outrage over hundreds of millions of