Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

METRO goes on high alert for anti-rail protesters

July 19, 2009 Anne Linehan

Last week, METRO threw itself a big party at Union Station to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Southeast and North Corridors. We hear METRO feared anti-rail protesters would crash the party, so METRO flew into

Mayor White backtracks from Senate-candidate White

July 16, 2009 Anne Linehan

Remember when Senate-candidate White tried not to look so wimpy on illegal immigration? Standing in front of a bank of TV cameras this week, Houston Mayor Bill White took the federal government to task for

An accident METRO officials couldn't blame on anyone but themselves

July 12, 2009 Anne Linehan

Back on June 16th, Kevin Whited noted, incredulously, that the Danger Train somehow managed to derail, run into a power pole, and rear-end another train. It was unclear if METRO PD Chief Tom Lambert found

Latest sales tax revenue allocations

July 12, 2009 Anne Linehan

Both the city of Houston’s and METRO’s sales tax revenue allocations have declined again. Houston’s is down 4.7%, and METRO’s is down 2.7% compared to July of last year. Thanks to Tom Bazan for continuing

Why Bill White chose to run for senate

July 12, 2009 Anne Linehan

From Rick Casey’s June 27th column: He said Friday he is convinced that his background in energy both in the private sector and in Washington as deputy secretary of energy in the Clinton administration, as

Stimulus money for local projects

July 5, 2009 Anne Linehan

Hope everyone is having a great Independence Day weekend. The blogHOUSTON crew is still in slow-posting mode, but this caught my eye: The Chron’s Carolyn Feibel writes on local road-building projects that are receiving stimulus

Mayor White: If HPOU wants more cadet classes, HPD officers can take a pay cut to pay for it

July 3, 2009 Anne Linehan

This is NOT senate-candidate White talking: Houston’s largest police union, citing the death of six officers during Mayor Bill White’s tenure, called on the mayor and City Council this week to hire more officers, restore

Where in Texas is Mayor White?

June 21, 2009 Anne Linehan

With apologies to Carmen Sandiego, we’ve been amused to see Senate-candidate White traveling the state in search of money and votes, trying very hard not to sound like the good progressive he resembles in, uh,

$180,000 in "undeclared" cash seized at Bush Intercontinental

June 20, 2009 Anne Linehan

Someone tried to get a suitcase full of money past customs at IAH last week: The Customs Border Protection (CBP) stopped an unidentified person traveling to Mexico after the X-ray machine images revealed great sums

Chron: MetroRail has 11 million riders every year

June 15, 2009 Anne Linehan

As critiques go, this is as tepid as they come, but it’s undoubtedly all the Chron editors will allow, and it will be held up as an example of the Chron’s tenacious, watchdog reporting: The