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Mayor White unveils budget proposal

May 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles has filed an early report on Mayor White’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year: The $1.69 billion preliminary budget — a five percent increase over the current fiscal year that

Barron examines latest sports talk radio ratings

May 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

The first Arbitron ratings are out since KBME-790’s flip to its current sports talk format, and the station appears to be doing well. The Chronicle‘s David Barron examines the numbers: The broadest audience measurement, persons

KPRC-950 drops Newsweek radio program

May 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

Ken Charles, regional vice president of programming for Clear Channel Houston, has announced that as of this past Sunday, he has pulled the program Newsweek on the Air from KPRC-950. Charles says that the program

Man arrested in Houston for offer to sell bomb to terrorist group

May 23, 2005 Anne Linehan

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested in Houston for attempting to sell a bomb to an al-Qaeda related group: Ronald Allen Grecula, of Bangor, Pa., was arrested Friday in Houston during a meeting with undercover

An unsatisfied light rail rider

May 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

A contributor at HAIF asks a question about MetroRail: After today’s disasterous commute #36 (oh yes, we’re counting) with my poor husband, I think Metrorail sucks big toes. Big nasty dirty toes at that. So,

Student asks city to fight murders, shootings, other crime

May 22, 2005 Kevin Whited

We can now add a high-school student troubled about rampant crime in his southwest Houston neighborhood to the blogHOUSTON chorus wondering when Mayor White and his council plan to address the Houston Police Department’s manpower

Hines issues a correction, retreats to France

May 22, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Coven-obsessed D.C. columnist issued a correction today for that embarrassing gaffe from last week’s column: My Wednesday column about the “nuclear option” contained the wrong supermajority normally required in the Senate to cut

Exposing the "safety" myth of red light cameras

May 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Janet Elliott told us Saturday that legislation in Austin to ban red light cameras appears to be dead, which is undoubtedly welcome news for MayorWhiteChiefHurtt. Since it appears Houstonians will now face two

HISD graduates overcome tremendous odds

May 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD spokesman Terry Abbott recently sent out a release with some inspiring graduation success stories. I’m a complete pushover for beating-the-odds stories, so I’m going to reprint the entire piece in the extended entry. Congratulations

A thank you, from blogHOUSTON

May 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

We had a terrific time at the Armadillo Palace last night. Thanks to everyone who came out to join us — it was great putting faces to names and catching up with everyone. Special thanks