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Increasing light rail ridership during Rodeo

February 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

In our forum, one of our commenters, Bill F, mentioned that Metro has stopped providing rodeo and football game shuttles so it can improve ridership numbers on MetroRail instead. That reminded me of a press

Food and drink roundup (02-10-2005 edition)

February 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

Houston’s food and drink reviewers head off the beaten path a bit this week. Robb Walsh likes Sabor for lunch and breakfast, but advises thinking twice about dinner. Alison Cook visits French Bistro Calais. Ken

Metro caused its own funding problem

February 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

Lucas Wall has written an eye-opening look at why MetroRail’s federal funding request was denied by the Federal Transit Administration. It basically boils down to Metro not wanting to play by the FTA’s rules.

Senate committee approves Whitmire's towing legislation

February 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

A state Senate committe has approved Sen. John Whitmire’s bill that would effectively put an end to $AFEclear, and according to KPRC-2, the full Senate is expected to vote on the legislation next week.

Public safety priorities

February 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 has reported on two more instances of questionable prioritizing by HPD and the city of Houston. First, KHOU uncovered a taxpayer-funded study the city of Houston commissioned in 2003, that says the city’s emergency

TxDOT hears from public about I-45 expansion idea

February 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

TxDOT held its I-45 information meeting last night, and Charles Kuffner was able to attend and his question was asked: The Q&A session was where the action occurred. Well, in the questions, anyway, where the

MetroRail's not getting federal funding — for now

February 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

Lucas Wall, in today’s Chronicle, reports that Metro has been denied federal funding for 2006, which will impede Metro’s planned expansion: In a report to Congress released on Tuesday, the Federal Transit Administration details rail

Casey muddles through vote-fraud controversy

February 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Charles Kuffner criticizes Chronicle columnist Rick Casey for getting “a bit muddled about the actual fraud that Rep. Will Hartnett found in his discovery process” in the Talmadge Heflin challenge. I agree that Casey is

Chron blows UH coverage, beat writer blames fans

February 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

On Saturday, the University of Houston men’s basketball team achieved the school’s 1,000th victory in the sport. While the 1,000-win list is not a tiny club among men’s college basketball programs, it was an impressive

Who is Helflin?

February 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s post-mortem on the Heflin-Vo race is reasonable enough, given the low standards that have been set. Unfortunately, there’s one little error that seems to have gotten by the idealists on the editorial board: