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Could Mayor White please explain?

September 30, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Ron Nissimov sounds a little exasperated over the White Administration’s refusal to answer a simple question: On Sept. 20, Mayor Bill White said an agreement had been reached to reduce an $846 million

Chronicle quotables

September 30, 2004 Anne Linehan

Those of us who still read the paper Chronicle (someone has to!) are given the joy of checking out the “Quotable” in the paper’s Election 2004 section. Tuesday’s entry is this wisdom imparted by former

Tolerance at Houston's Baptist university

September 30, 2004 Callie Markantonis

How tolerant of my alma mater: “Mainly the purpose was to clear up some misconceptions about Islam,” said Khalid Bhatti, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and graduate student at the University of Houston.

The relevance of Marvin

September 29, 2004 Callie Markantonis

Kudos to Eileen Faxas of KHOU’s Defenders for her story about making health department inspections public. This week, 11 News Defenders revealed how City Hall quashed plans to publicize health inspections by putting them online.

Ken Charles knows how to generate buzz

September 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

Back when the Dan Rather memogate controversy broke, KPRC-950 general manager Ken Charles received some media buzz when he announced that he was dropping Dan Rather’s news updates from the conservative-talk station’s rotation. Predictably, the

A giant, crippled chicken will cross Westheimer?

September 29, 2004 Callie Markantonis

The PETA freaks are at it again. No half-naked women in this protest though. If PETA protests become run-of-the-mill in Houston, we may just qualify as being world class.

Eckels loses on property tax proposal

September 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

Harris County Judge Robert Eckels couldn’t find a second for his proposal to cut property taxes at yesterday’s Commissioners’ Court. Commissioners later voted to retain the same tax rate. Afterwards, conservative and liberal members alike

Disgraced former HPD captain attempts comeback

September 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

Various news outlets are reporting on disgraced former HPD Captain Mark Aguirre’s attempts to get his job back, with back pay! Here’s an excerpt from the Chronicle‘s coverage: During emotional and sometimes angry testimony Tuesday,

HPD manpower issues begin to affect public parks

September 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Houston Police Department has looming manpower issues that are now starting to be felt. Carolyn Campbell reports for KHOU-11 that HPD is being forced to cut down patrols at area parks in order to

Checking in on the Enron proceedings

September 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

Houston attorney and blogger Tom Kirkendall checks in on the various legal happenings with regard to the Enron prosecutions here and here. Kirkendall brings the sort of legal/business expertise to the topic that no journalist