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Saturday morning BizRadio

May 27, 2005 Anne Linehan

Since Kevin decided to go away for the long weekend (very long, you poor readers), Saturday morning’s BizRadio (1320 AM) show will have to make do with me, along with Charles Kuffner. I have already

The Chronicle is adding blogs at a fast and furious pace. The newest one, HandStamp, will focus on the local music scene: Welcome to HandStamp, a new blog dedicated to Houston’s local music scene. Writers

Chron's story on Grand Parkway meeting

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

I was able to attend the Grand Parkway meeting last night and I’ll get a post written up later today. For now, though, here’s the Chronicle‘s story, by Kim Jackson: State transportation officials assured Spring-area

HISD students beat national average on Stanford 10 test

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD received some good news with the results of the Stanford 10 test: More than 165,000 HISD students in grades 1 through 11 took the Stanford 10 test or its Spanish-language equivalent, the Aprenda, and

May sweeps spinning shall begin (updated)

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Now that May sweeps has ended, Laurence Simon predicts how our local stations will spin the results. UPDATE: Laurence points out that the Chronicle‘s Mike McDaniel has a story in today’s paper and notes that

Wading through Grand Parkway spin

May 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last night’s Grand Parkway meeting was informative, spin-filled and fairly well-attended.

Grand Parkway meeting tonight

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tonight, Spring/Tomball residents have an opportunity to meet and hear from officials regarding the Grand Parkway: Please join us for a Town Hall meeting to address current developments with the Grand Parkway through Spring and

Mayor White, Houston savior

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Mayor White will be using this in his next campaign: Mayor Bill White owes his election in a landslide nearly two years ago to his image as a successful corporate executive who could sort out

Houston needs to focus on the right quality-of-life issues

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tory Gattis of Houston Strategies highlights Joel Kotkin’s new work, ” Urban Legends: Cities Aren’t Doing As Well As You Think”: Cities must return to a progressive focus on fixing their real problems–that is, the

Multi-agency task force targets MS-13

May 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

I was late checking the “This Week” sections and almost missed this story about Houston’s growing nightmare — MS-13: “Certainly southwest Houston is not the only part of the city where we have seen gangs,