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Metro arrests Park and Pillage burglars

May 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Park and Pillage bandits have been arrested, according to Metro Police: Fingerprints on a car that had been broken into at the Addicks Park & Ride lot last month helped Metro police capture two

Campbell on Cosby's conversation

May 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle reader representative James T. Campbell pens a column on Bill Cosby, who will be visiting Houston next week: Cosby is attempting to fundamentally change the approach that lower income and poor minorities use to

Twin Cities Metro can't get a working "smart card" system from Cubic Corp.

May 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

Cubic Corp, which has failed to deliver a working “smart card” system for Metro and is being sued by Metro, has also failed to deliver a functional “smart card” system for the Twin Cities Metro

"Texas Viking" Fjetland talks politics, launches blog

May 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Local progressive blogger Charles Kuffner sat down last week with Michael Fjetland, the sometime Republican from Fort Bend County who is again speaking of challenging House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R). Kuffner summarized Fjetland’s plans

District C candidates off and running

May 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Friday, the Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack provided some interesting coverage of the District C council race, which already seems to be heating up: One of the candidates in the crowded race to succeed Mark Goldberg, who

Radar goes on a diet

May 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

It’s bad enough that KPRC-2 has a dog on its weather forecasts. Now, the dog’s diet has become a part of the newscast: Houston’s dubious fattest city title may apply to more than just than

MetroRail faces a big repair headache

May 8, 2005 Anne Linehan

As Rad Sallee reports, Metro is disclosing it has a problem with the light rail system: After more than a year of rail operations, Metro President and CEO Frank Wilson revealed recently that 12 of

Catch the Casey LiveJournal Monologues in person

May 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today, we get the latest in a series of LiveJournal-style columns from Rick Casey. It’s nice to see the state of the culture as reflected by Casey’s prose: Afterwards he hooked up with and impregnated

McGilbra pleads guilty to federal charges

May 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Another official from the administration of former mayor Lee Brown has pleaded guilty to wrongdoing while in office: Former city of Houston administrator Monique McGilbra pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from a multistate

Mobility solutions for Houston

May 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tory Gattis, who writes the Houston Strategies blog, has three posts on how to solve Houston’s traffic woes: a network of express lanes, private transit options, and financial incentives to get employees to stop driving