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MetroRail faces a big repair headache

May 8, 2005 Anne Linehan

As Rad Sallee reports, Metro is disclosing it has a problem with the light rail system: After more than a year of rail operations, Metro President and CEO Frank Wilson revealed recently that 12 of

Catch the Casey LiveJournal Monologues in person

May 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today, we get the latest in a series of LiveJournal-style columns from Rick Casey. It’s nice to see the state of the culture as reflected by Casey’s prose: Afterwards he hooked up with and impregnated

McGilbra pleads guilty to federal charges

May 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Another official from the administration of former mayor Lee Brown has pleaded guilty to wrongdoing while in office: Former city of Houston administrator Monique McGilbra pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from a multistate

Mobility solutions for Houston

May 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tory Gattis, who writes the Houston Strategies blog, has three posts on how to solve Houston’s traffic woes: a network of express lanes, private transit options, and financial incentives to get employees to stop driving

Now 911 dispatchers have a productivity policy (updated)

May 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here are two sentences from Mayor White’s most recent State of the City speech: As a community we must build consensus to put emergency services on a sound, sustainable financial basis. Public safety will come

Here's the new definition of world-class: an $81 million park

May 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Isn’t it nice that a New York-based company can come to Houston and tell city officials that if they would just spend $81 million on a 12-acre park, Houston “could” be redefined as a “great

blogHOUSTON on the radio

May 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s Saturday morning, which means Kevin will be on BizRadio 1320 with Charles Kuffner at about 10:15 or so. Tune in!

Hurtt addresses HPD internal affairs issues

May 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Harvey Rice follows up on his solid reporting earlier this week with an update on the fallout over the $600,000 judgment against HPD in a sexual harassment lawsuit: Police Chief Harold Hurtt says

Aldine ISD in the running for top urban school district prize

May 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

Aldine ISD is one of five finalists to be named the Broad Foundation’s top urban school district: The Broad Foundation announced today the finalists of the 2005 Broad Prize for Urban Education, an annual $1

Dr. Saavedra surprises HISD Teacher of the Year nominee

May 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD superintendent Dr. Abe Saavedra surprised a teacher yesterday by giving him the rest of the day off: Port Houston Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Jarrett Reid Whitaker was not expecting guests in his after-school science