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MeMo's feeling blue

Yes, we poke fun at MeMo, but MeMo earns all that poking by writing columns like yesterday’s: As previously noted, MeMo went off for a few days to fight Worldwide Torpor. But as every superhero

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Register to vote

The Chronicle has an editorial reminding readers that today is the last day to register to vote for the presidential election. Pretty straightforward, one would think, but the editors couldn’t miss this opportunity: The outcome

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Earth to the Chronicle

CBS News points out something interesting in an online story (we’ll assume the story isn’t based on fake documents) about the debate last Thursday: But, with the exception of Mr. Bush’s essentially hometown newspaper, the

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The Grand Parkway

The Grand Parkway has turned into a grand brouhaha, in north Harris County, as opponents of the segment slated to be built through Spring fear it will be fast-tracked. The Chronicle reports on a meeting

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Trees for Houston

Apparently, Houston needs some tree diversity as an ongoing inventory of the city’s trees shows a disproportionate number are live oaks: Surveys of various local neighborhoods consistently show that 60 percent to 70 percent of

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That Newsweek poll

One can imagine how excited the Chronicle editors were to pounce on this Reuters story of a Newsweek poll: Democratic challenger John Kerry has pulled ahead of President Bush in a poll published by Newsweek

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Education news

There were two education stories of note last week, the biggest of which was the release of school ratings, based on Texas’ new accountability system: After an absence of one year while a new, tougher

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Quotables

Today’s Chronicle “Quotable” should actually be plural because we get two. Here’s the first: “Kerry was very presidential in his demeanor…And I had already reached that conclusion before the people on TV told us what