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Houston's in great shape

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tory Gattis (Houston Strategies) came across a press release for the Houston Airport System’s A+ bond rating and discovered some interesting things: The system’s primary market area consists of the eight-county Houston-Galveston-Brazoria consolidated metropolitan area

Houstonians think Mayor White has the greatest ideas!

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Kristen Mack writes that Mayor White has commissioned a poll and the results, amazingly, show that Houstonians LOVE his ideas: With less than 20 days left in the legislative session, Mayor Bill White has released

Roseanne Rosannadanna-Litella

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

You knew it was coming: HISD holds off on plan for less math and science: After hearing critics, Saavedra says a panel will look into proposed change for high schools. Shall we guess how those

Consumer-friendly downtown parking meters?

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 adds to last week’s Chronicle story about the new downtown parking meters: City officials are overhauling the entire parking operation downtown, which includes installing new, consumer-friendly parking meters. [snip] Manuel Gonzales was perplexed. “I’m

HISD's math and science proposal, in Dr. Saavedra's own words

May 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s Dr. Saavedra, explaining why he’s proposing a change in the math and science requirements:

A world-class city for commerce and careers

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Houston may still be short of the elusive “world-class” status that some local municipal leaders, mass-transit enthusiasts, and editorial utopians long for, but it ranks highly in the latest Forbes rankings of Best Places for

Bill O'Reilly, Dan Patrick beat up Chronicle

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

(Bill O’Reilly and Dan Patrick) On May 10 the Chronicle ran an editorial that we dismissed as more of the usual nonsense. Bill O’Reilly, however, picked up on the editorial (which was posted on May

Mayor White takes HFD negotiations public

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, KUHF-88.7’s Capella Tucker and KHOU-11’s Doug Miller separately reported Mayor White’s comments that negotiators for the city of Houston and the city’s firefighters were bogged down in a disagreement about overtime compensation. Today, the

KPRC-2 breaks out sex offenders by zip code

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 has taken time from reporting on the weather dog’s diet to break out the number of sex offenders in Houston by zip code. The story is here. The Texas Sexual Offender searchable database is

HPD reallocates resources to deal with MS 13

May 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports that HPD is reallocating resources to deal with the MS 13 gang problem in Houston. That’s welcome news, of course, but this part of the report was revealing: About a year ago, as