Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Thou shalt not question HPD (updated)

August 27, 2008 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire reports that some city councilmembers had the temerity to ask HPD for an accounting of previous funds that were allotted for recruitment advertising. This came about as HPD was requesting another $750,000

HPD "cracks down" on the homeless…again

August 26, 2008 Anne Linehan

The last time HPD “cracked down” on the homeless was in September, 2007. Almost one year later, it’s time to do it again (via KHOU-11): Three Houston Police divisions are preparing for a zero tolerance

Your Houston tax dollars at work

August 25, 2008 Anne Linehan

As the end of the city’s fiscal year was approaching, what did city councilmembers do with the remainder of their office budgets? The Chron’s Matt Stiles and Carolyn Feibel asked for all the spending records

Mayor to Mincberg: Quit using me in your ads

August 24, 2008 Anne Linehan

Last week the Chron’s Liz Austin Peterson reported that Mayor White was not overjoyed with county judge candidate David Mincberg’s presumptive use of the mayoral likeness in the wannabe judge’s first TV ad: Democrat David

Chron: School districts saved money with later start date; HISD: No we didn't

August 24, 2008 Anne Linehan

Last week the Chron’s Jennifer Radcliffe wrote a story with the following thesis: School district utility bills have gone down since the Lege ordered later start dates: Texas public school leaders may still be fuming

This week at METRO: Frank Wilson gets a raise; bad bus drivers keep on driving

August 22, 2008 Anne Linehan

KPRC-2 has a story posted about how METRO’s “Three Strikes, You’re Out” rule for bus drivers is just more hot air from the transit agency that could power its own wind farm: Motorists reported some

Grand Parkway F-2 segment will require condemning many homes

August 21, 2008 Anne Linehan

Some new residents in Spring have just discovered what many of us have been railing against for a while now: The Grand Parkway F-2 segment is going to require the demolition of many homes (via

Frank Wilson: Go for the greed

August 18, 2008 Anne Linehan

As he was speaking to the Asian Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce last week, Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson tried to encourage Asian business owners to get some of the

Grand Parkway F-2 segment FEIS ready

August 16, 2008 Anne Linehan

The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Grand Parkway’s F-2 segment (the section that runs from SH-249 to I-45) is complete and comments are now being accepted. Scroll down for the links on this page

CNN's Houston "bureau"

August 16, 2008 Anne Linehan

Laurence Simon and Mike McGuff note that CNN is opening up a Houston bureau: Each city will get one person who can provide “grassroots level” coverage of breaking news and other local stories, said Nancy