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Is this supposed to be good or bad?

April 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

Toll booth workers are lonely: The Houston Toll Road Authority said 800,000 people travel toll roads in Harris County each day. So it’s hard to imagine that business could ever be slow for the people

HISD accepts proposals to reform schools; teachers union frets

April 14, 2005 Anne Linehan

Today is the deadline to submit proposals to reform three HISD high schools, and Jason Spencer is on the case for the Chronicle. (I have already checked — the story appears to be accurate.) Unfortunately,

The Chronicle covers Laurence Simon — the San Francisco Chronicle

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

blogHOUSTON favorite Laurence Simon is featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about dead pools: For hundreds of millions of religious followers around the world, last week’s passing of Pope John Paul II was a

Chronicle "balances" its DeLay coverage

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Whoa! There are three (count ’em — THREE!) letters today in support of Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Here’s one: Spreading partisan nonsense I am tired of the Chronicle’s vendetta against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay because

The Chronicle DOES know Rep. Noriega is in Afghanistan

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Remember that Chronicle editorial that said Rep. Rick Noriega is serving in Iraq? (Rob Booth at Lone Star Times caught it and pointed out that Noriega is serving in Afghanistan.) The Chronicle never issued a

Now Fort Bend County wants to take over its part of the Grand Parkway

April 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Following up on these posts about state Sen. Jon Lindsay’s bill that would allow a county toll road authority to take over a TXDoT project to expedite construction and then transfer the property back to

City should be wary of Cubic parking meters

April 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

I’m sure everyone is aware that Houston is trying out some new parking meters downtown, but there was one interesting bit of information at the end of Lucas Wall’s story that really should have received

Metro sees nothing wrong with dangerous intersection

April 12, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 ran a story last night about a particularly bad intersection downtown, with unclear signage, faded lane markings and…the Danger Train: Accident after accident appears to be waiting to happen at the intersection of Wheeler

Another manifestation of HPD's manpower shortage

April 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

If you think you’ve seen more graffiti around Houston lately, you’re probably not imagining it. The increased defacement of property citywide comes after HPD (under the direction of the dynamic duo of White/Hurtt, no doubt)

Banjo Jones: The "golden age" of Houston columnists

April 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Remember back when Houston was a three newspaper town? Yeah, that was before my time too. But Banjo Jones has the details over at his blog.