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Metro cuts bus routes and downtown trolleys

March 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro has finalized some “service improvements”: Effective Monday, April 4, METRO will discontinue three Local bus routes and the two Downtown Trolley routes due to low performance. These routes were given six months’ probation last

A Houstonian gives back to his community

March 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

I need a feel-good story today. Desperately. KHOU-11 provides one: Every year Victor Washington’s company, Washington & Sons Air Conditioning and Heating, gives away dozens of window units and installs several furnaces, all free of

Florida State dean is new UH provost

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

UH has chosen a new provost: After more than a year of searching, UH has found a new provost: Donald J. Foss, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University.

HPD wants to use unpaid, reserve officers to fill the gaps

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s an eye-opening story in the Chronicle: Reserve officers — part-timers who work without pay but have full arrest powers — could return to the ranks at the Houston Police Department under a plan senior

Houston gets world class DMN treatment

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Pegasus crew calls our attention to the weekend travel section of the Dallas Morning News, which featured a story on our own light rail train, a story on Houston museums and their architects, and

Is KTRK spinning news ratings?

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various sources have noted the KHOU-11 news team’s recent ratings victories. Recently, a reader asked the Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman why KTRK-13 keeps saying it’s still tops: Q: About two weeks ago I read a piece

Feeling our way through the end of life

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

In what has turned out to be an increasingly popular post in light of recent events, we criticized a recent Houston Chronicle editorial for what seemed like a callously indifferent regard for innocent (albeit impaired)

Metro has an executive shake-up

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

A new face has joined Metro’s leadership: David Feeley joined Metro’s executive staff March 9. The 62-year-old, who recently returned from working in Iraq and was planning to sail across the Atlantic Ocean before being

Jackson-Lee always finds the press

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740 news just ran a blurb that included comments from Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) that suggested that she supported the Terri Schiavo legislation passed by the House early this morning. That’s all well and good,

Hello? Anyone home at Metro?

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Laurence Simon had a little problem trying to call the hotline Metro lists on its signs: Folks, I’ve never talked to a live human being on that number. Ever. I’ve waited for over 30 minutes