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Why not just reprint the press release?

March 8, 2009 Kevin Whited

Matt Bramanti calls our attention to this story by Chron reporter Todd Ackerman. As Bramanti notes, a number of phrases in the reporting seem to be lifted from this press release with hardly any change

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Ruffled feathers: Recent Chron METRO, county coverage prompts responses from public officials

March 8, 2009 Kevin Whited

Chron transit reporter Rosanna Ruiz is shaping up so far to be much more diligent and probing than her two most recent predecessors on the beat. METRO isn’t quite used to the local newspaper being

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Chron E-Edition signup/purchase process = Monumental FAIL (updated)

March 5, 2009 Kevin Whited

We recently commented on the news that Hearst newspaper executives are discussing putting some of their online content behind a paid firewall and raising subscriber rates. Locally, there has been something of a backlash to

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Ready-Fire-Aim: METRO board approves rail contract nobody else has seen

March 5, 2009 Kevin Whited

METRO’s board has unanimously approved the big rail contract that the public was not allowed to see or debate before the big vote yesterday and which, they contend, was still being negotiated right up to

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Undercover Man looks at Mobility Response Team (Part 3)

March 4, 2009 Kevin Whited

Last night, KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino continued his look at Mayor White’s Mobility Response Team. City Controller and mayoral candidate Annise Parker even weighed in: “This is a failure of training. It’s a failure of leadership.

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Undercover Man looks at Mobility Response Team (Part 2)

March 3, 2009 Kevin Whited

Last night, KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino continued his investigative reporting on Mayor White’s Mobility Response Team program. Here’s is an excerpt, although the video is even more fun: The lights were working. The train was doing

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METRO: We'll release public information when we feel like it

March 3, 2009 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Rosanna Ruiz reports today that METRO refuses to hand over any information about the multi-billion dollar contract that it will vote on tomorrow: The Metropolitan Transit Authority continued to withhold the anticipated overall

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Alvarado: Fiddling while Rome burns

March 3, 2009 Kevin Whited

We had to borrow from a recent post by Clear Thinker Tom Kirkendall, because the headline was our immediate reaction to this news about Carol Alvarado’s big proposal: State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, who as

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Chron Move It columnist recaps experiences riding METRO buses

March 2, 2009 Kevin Whited

Chronicle Move It columnist Rosanna Ruiz has been commuting by bus in recent days, and recaps some of the experiences in today’s column, which is not exactly a ringing endorsement of transit in Houston: For

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Undercover Man looks at Mobility Response Team

March 1, 2009 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 has been busy promoting Wayne Dolcefino‘s latest investigative effort. Apparently, the Undercover Man’s latest series will examine the Mobility Response Team, Mayor White’s program in which various scooter patrols zip around and help solve

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