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Crime lab analyst who made up results finally resigns

June 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Ted Oberg reports that the analyst who remained employed by the HPD crime lab after faking test results has finally resigned: One analyst resigned instead of being fired. The second analyst was reprimanded in

Jaywalking ticket-writing begins today?

June 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

There appears to be a bit of confusion as to whether or not HPD’s new crackdown on jaywalking begins in earnest today: Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt announced the plan June 1, allowing two weeks

Watch your rear — red light cameras are coming

June 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last night KHOU-11’s lead 10 p.m. story was about red light cameras coming to Houston — soon. And today Matt Stiles has a story in the Chronicle about the revenue-generating, uh…safety cameras: “They are going

Mayor White and RFK Jr. speaking at Progressive Forum tonight

June 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Hopefully, a transcript of this speech by Mayor White will be available tomorrow: In an appearance that should boost his environmental credentials, Mayor Bill White will join activist and lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on

Chron runs first of multi-part olds from Casey

June 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Rick Casey uses the recent BP explosion to take a trip down memory lane, recounting a tale of OSHA violations by a Houston company headed by Erik K. Ho in the 1990s. Casey contends that

SAFEClear and rail touted as congestion-reducing solutions

June 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13 is running an AP story about the increasing problem of traffic congestion in Texas. One congestion-reducing idea included in the story is Houston’s SAFEClear program: “The traffic on our freeways tends to move when

Editorial LiveJournal: Mr. Gibbons rides his bike!

June 11, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle editorial page editor and Platonic idealist James Howard Gibbons has another of his Editorial LiveJournals in today’s newspaper. Here’s a sample: The summer day had set in with its usual severity when I set

Northside residents don't want light rail in their neighborhood

June 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

Some north Houston residents are not thrilled with the MetroRail’s proposed route through their neighborhood: The route would extend from downtown to Greenspoint Mall and beyond. But people along one section of the proposed line

One battle the city isn't interested in fighting

June 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

Remember when Mayor White got approval to spend $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to have Proposition 2 declared illegal, even though Prop. 2 was passed with 56 percent of the vote? Well, the residents of one

Is HISD the only school district with TAKS scores to report?

June 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

I see the Chronicle is reporting HISD’s results from the second round of fifth-grade TAKS testing: Results released Friday by HISD show that 81 percent of fifth-graders have passed the math portion of the test