Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Lucas Wall makes the mayor's case for a parking authority

March 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last week, Lucas Wall gave us a cliffhanger ending in his Move It! column about downtown Houston parking woes: The mayor’s office has been plotting reform of Parking Management. Next week we’ll review the plans

Residents protest a looming bus route cancellation

March 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

Some residents who depend on bus 64 are not happy that the route is on the chopping block: The people who ride Route 64 said it’s a necessity. So as word gets around that the

Dreaming of Joe's BBQ in the White House

March 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 has the story of a local BBQ chef/owner who is in the running to become the new White House chef: Joe Saladino of Joe’s Bar-B-Q says he could bowl the Bush’s over with his

Chron still covering school privatization (non)controversy

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Kristen Mack is the latest Chronicle reporter to write on the HISD-is-privatizing-high schools, made-for-newspaper brouhaha. Today’s story covers a protest at Sam Houston High School: HISD Superintendent Abe Saavedra faced another crowd of angry parents

Chronicle says "fatwa" speaks for all religions

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle editorial board writes a very bizarre thing in an editorial about the one year anniversary of the al Qaeda bombing in Madrid. The editorial also mentions the “fatwa” issued by Spain’s Islamic Commission

Chronicle finds a connection between Mel Gibson and Hitler

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

So, why is the Chronicle in a troubling and declining circulation trend? Why does the paper make a Top 10 list of newspapers that rely on “freebies”? Stories like today’s on the recut Passion of

HISD releases TAKS results

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has released TAKS results for third and fifth graders, and the news is mixed: HISD third-grade students performed well on the TAKS reading test this year, with 83 percent passing the English version of

The mystery of the mustache, solved

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

A downtown statue has a new look, and the statue’s artist isn’t pleased: David Adickes showed up Thursday at downtown’s Lyric Center with Groucho Marx eyeglasses and a fake nose. But though the Houston sculptor’s

Metro's disappearing "Startling Facts"

March 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro’s “Startling Facts” press release, which entertained me over the weekend, has mysteriously disappeared from Metro’s site. But Metro is no match for the power of Google, so here’s the cached press release. I don’t

Time Mag glowingly covers MetroRail

March 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

One of our commenters points out that Time Magazine has a little something on MetroRail: A rare and exotic species has found its way to Houston of late. Known in other cities as pedestrians, the