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Slade: To heck with students, so long as I get double points!

September 11, 2007 Kevin Whited

The trial of disgraced former TSU president Priscilla Slade is continuing, and the Chronicle‘s Brian Rogers has an update on Slade’s carefree spending of the institution’s funds: Standing in front of a mountain of cardboard

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KHOU: Downtown nightlife continues decline

September 10, 2007 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Karla Barguiarena reports on downtown’s once-thriving bar/restaurant scene, which continues a steady decline: You don’t need to walk more than a block to see downtown Houston businesses are hurting. It is a stark contrast

BHv1

Proposed Astrodome Hotel to have rides to make you say "wow!"

September 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Bill Murphy checked in last week with the latest news on the proposed Astrodome Hotel boondoggle: Entrepreneurs looking to turn the iconic Astrodome into an upscale convention hotel have scrapped a “best of

BHv1

HPD announces new overtime/paperwork policy

September 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Lindsay Wise reports that HPD has revised a policy on overtime (and paperwork): The Houston Police Department will revise its payroll policies after an audit and media reports criticized the department’s lax procedures

BHv1

Who are these other "observers"?

September 8, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matthew Tresaugue checks in with an update on the race for HCC trustee positions. Unsurprisingly, onetime Council candidate and hot local Democratic political prospect Jay Aiyer will not be seeking re-election. He pleaded

BHv1

Chron's Mack headed to the Washington Post

September 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack today writes about Clarence Bradford, who will be officially kicking off his campaign for Harris County District Attorney later this month. Bradford was Lee Brown’s chief of police, and has been

BHv1

KPRC: Greek sisters and hometown airline take on fires in Greece

September 6, 2007 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 runs a story on some local Greeks and the hometown airline teaming up to help fight the raging fires in Greece: A Houston radio personality and her sister need donations to try to save

BHv1

Chron headline writers strike again (cont'd)

September 6, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chron‘s online headline writers seem to be having a rough week. Here are some of the fun ones that have appeared over the past few days: Council designs two properties as historic landmarks Unless

BHv1

Is this what you expect from an elected official?

September 6, 2007 Anne Linehan

Get a load of this: Residents complain about prostitution in their neighborhood, police investigate, someone is busted, that someone hires a local elected official as a defense attorney, and the local elected official gets that

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bH salutes Mr. Perennial Losing Candidate Guy

September 5, 2007 Kevin Whited

Today is the filing deadline for municipal elections, and the Chronicle‘s resident database/spreadsheet guru has the list of candidates. There will be plenty of time for the serious candidates to tell us all their serious

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