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Carnival of the Cats is one year old!

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

We have covered the Carnival of the Cats before, when the New York Times and Time Magazine reported on it. The Carnival just happens to be organized by local blogger Laurence Simon. Well, today is

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Correcting some errors in Jason Spencer's story

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday I was dismissive of a Jason Spencer story about the lower TAKS test scores at some HISD schools. What Spencer led the reader to believe is that schools with lower scores are the same

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KPFT: The sound of fringe-left purity

March 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

Many of us who are Americana/Texas country music fans remember well KPFT-90.1’s heyday in the late 1990s, when its “Sound of Texas” format made the station a big player on the Texas music scene, even

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A little balance to the "peace" march

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday, the Chronicle sent two reporters to cover Houston’s Iraq war protest, which drew, we are told, 200 protesters. This is my favorite part: The Houston Area Department of Peace held the “walking meditation” on

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Ho-hum: Chron runs another HISD-is-bad story

March 19, 2005 Anne Linehan

You’ll have to pardon me for not getting too worked up over this Chronicle headline: Test scores fall sharply at scrutinized schools. First, the story is by Jason Spencer. Second, it’s in the Chronicle. Third,

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Eckels abandons conservative principles on gas tax

March 19, 2005 Kevin Whited

There’s an old phrase used by academics who study bureaucratic/organizational politics, “where you sit determines where you stand.” The phrase means that institutional pressures frequently shape the preferences and advocacy of policymakers, sometimes as much

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Metro's "smart card" saga rolls on

March 19, 2005 Anne Linehan

I chuckled when I saw this Metro press release yesterday: METRO recently made buying fare passes even more convenient with the launch of the Online RideStore, where patrons can purchase fare items using a credit

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Breakfast in the classroom restarted in some schools

March 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD’s breakfast in “breakfast in the classroom” program has been restarted at four schools: Four Houston schools will resume serving breakfast to students in their classrooms, more than a month after state regulators found evidence

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Covering Galveston's Social Security program

March 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s curious to us media watchers that the Chronicle expends so much energy chasing down “news” about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) knowing some people, when there is some real news in its own

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The Toll Road Authority isn't making many friends

March 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Harris County Toll Road Authority — of which I am no fan — is continuing to generate controversy with its toll road plans: The toll road authority is a massive operation, generating $298 million

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