Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Vote for America's Worst Newspaper

November 20, 2006 Anne Linehan

Power Line Blog has posted its nominess for America’s Worst Newspaper. Second on the list, our beloved Houston Chronicle: The Houston Chronicle: A reader who worked for the Chronicle for “quite a while”: “Its main

Will Council's apartment ordinance reduce affordable housing?

November 19, 2006 Anne Linehan

Today’s Chronicle carried an op-ed on the topic of City Council’s plan to fine the owners of apartment complexes that suffer from too much crime. The point writer Teresa Lowery makes is that the costs

Cabbies: What $6 fare?

November 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

The city’s new $6 downtown cab ride program is underway, and there’s even a website up and running with all the details. There’s just one little problem: Someone forgot to tell the cabbies: City officials

Janitors, Chevron, and the Greater Houston Partnership

November 16, 2006 Anne Linehan

SEIU isn’t giving up on the janitor’s strike; in fact, SEIU is determined to be successful in Houston so it can gain “a foothold into the south.” To that end, union organizers and janitors protested

Blown over newspaper boxes? There oughta be a law!

November 15, 2006 Anne Linehan

Did we ever find out if City Council passed the ordinance it was considering recently to regulate newspaper boxes? Because KHOU-11 has raw video of today’s very windy conditions, and included in the video is

Berlin is not in France

November 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

UH Professor David Dow wrote an op-ed for today’s Chron bemoaning the fact that Saddam Hussein will likely be hanged for his crimes. What caught my eye, though, is a rather glaring error in the

The Dynamo's dream stadium

November 11, 2006 Anne Linehan

According to the Chron‘s David Barron, the Houston Dynamo have found the perfect model for their own stadium/complex: As the Dynamo prepare to play the New England Revolution on Sunday for the championship of Major

Proposition G supporter Larry Kellner visits area churches

November 7, 2006 Anne Linehan

Isiah Carey has the scoop on what Continental CEO Larry Kellner was doing last Sunday: The Insite has learned Continental Airlines C.E.O. Larry Kellner found his way to several African American churches last Sunday to

Metro's stray current cost approaches $1 million

November 7, 2006 Anne Linehan

Tom Bazan keeps digging and Metro has been forced to release more details of its efforts to fix MetroRail’s stray current problem. KTRH-740’s Brent Fuller reports that the price tag keeps going up: The Harris

Talking to the little people

November 5, 2006 Anne Linehan

If you need a good reason to vote for Proposition G, the Chron‘s editorial board would like you to know that throughout history, the world’s great cities have remained great when they remembered to keep