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Chron: Judge was jaywalking; No he wasn't

June 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last week, three Chronicle reporters contributed to a story on the city’s Renegade Downtown Jaywalking problem that contained the following: The plan drew its share of wisecracks from jaywalkers Friday, including a jurist. “It does

New Mexican restaurant to open along rail line

June 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Houston Business Journal reports that downtown is finally seeing some restaurant development along the rail line: Three entrepreneurs that formed a company last month to open and operate bars and restaurants in the Central

Bush Intercontinental's plan for future development

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Houston Airport System has a press release posted detailing a future expansion plan: The Houston Airport System (HAS) has adopted a preferred alternative for future development at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). The selection of

Akin's Army is disbanding

June 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Mike McDaniel reports that Emily Akin is leaving KPRC-2. She was asked to remain on board as a general assignment reporter while the station revamps its consumer reporting, but declined.

Planned Parenthood op-ed

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Peter J. Durkin, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas Inc., has an op-ed in today’s Chronicle headlined, “A world where every child is loved, cared for, wanted.” The column is

HISD's dropout prevention specialists fly into action

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Following up on yesterday’s post about HISD aggressively trying to get 900 seniors to pass one or more TAKS tests to graduate, here are the details on how the first day of the summer program

Loren Steffy's blog

June 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

I just noticed Chron.com has added a blog by Loren Steffy, called “Full Disclosure“: Welcome to Full Disclosure, my new blog for business-related topics and perhaps a few other things. I hope to use this

Adult supervision required

June 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle ran a story last week in which Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal criticized HISD for conducting its own investigation into the Margaret Stroud mess. According to Jason Spencer’s story (uh oh), Rosenthal said

An alternative perspective on "In Harm's Way"

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

H. Sterling Burnett has penned an interesting and provocative response to a January 2005 Chronicle story on area air quality that was ominously entitled “In Harm’s Way.” Here’s an excerpt: According to the U.S. Environmental

Banking industry mysteries on the Chron letters page

June 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Anne Linehan commented earlier on the HISD angle to a letter printed in today’s Chronicle. There’s another problem with that letter, a problem that’s consistent with the newspaper’s long-term treatment of Harris County DA and