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Rick Casey 'Economic LiveJournal' debuts!

July 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey decides today to play economist. Casey apparently doesn’t much like the incentive packages used to entice formerly large mail-order firms like Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s to

Feds get two more MS-13 bad guys

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested two more MS-13 members in Houston: William Orlando Lima-Hernandez, 25, a citizen of Guatemala, was picked up at a construction sight [sic] off Kirkwood Dr. in Houston. ICE agents

Metro has to pay those salaries somehow

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Sedosi points to the tail end of today’s Chronicle story on Metro’s SWAT/SORT: In other business, the Metro board extended President and CEO Frank Wilson’s four-year contract until 2010. Wilson turned down an offer to

Not to worry, he'll get his 15+ minutes of fame to make up for the racism

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Let’s see…a Bush Intercontinental baggage screener who moonlights as a rapper, and holds a fondness in his heart for terrorists, airplanes flying into buildings and women being raped, is fired from his job by the

Down in the mud, blood, and beer with Rep. Poe

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Former local judge and current U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R) has joined the celebrity blogging crew at the Huffington Post. The post isn’t notably worse or better than most of the content at HP, although

Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone" again

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various media outlets are reporting that today’s rain has shut down METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” for the second day in a row. Nothing is moving all that well anywhere in the city right now. At

White & Edwards: We're tired of this MediaSource topic!

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that City Council delayed a vote on funding for Houston MediaSource today, and Mayor White is back to sounding perturbed: “You can’t stop people from complaining. And, you know, I’ve never

What does Casey really think about Republicans?

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey writes the following today: The suit wasn’t heard by a jury but by Judge Hart. Under Travis County rules, when a lawsuit is declared to be “complex,”

Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone"

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the heavy rains forced METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” to shut down earlier today: METRORail was also shut down between the University of Houston-Downtown and Wheeler stations because of high water. Traffic was

Chron editorialists try to blame DA, judges for crime lab fiasco

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 general manager Steve Wasserman has belatedly weighed in on the HPD crime lab controversy: Appalling is the only word to describe the magnitude of the mismanagement under which the Houston Police Department crime lab