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Casey's SAFEclear solution: a new tax

January 24, 2005 Kevin Whited

Talk radio and blogs have done a really good job picking apart the SAFEclear program, examining alternatives, and critiquing various proposals to change the program. However, Chronicle columnist Rick Casey, who seems to have missed

An IQ test that fails

January 24, 2005 Anne Linehan

Lucas Wall must have been light on material for his “Move It!”column this week because he wrote what he calls a MetroRail IQ test. It’s a multiple choice test, basically, and he explains his reason

Saavedra proposes big changes for HISD

January 23, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD superintendent Abe Saavedra has outlined some changes that would focus on whittling away at administrative bureaucracy and cutting back on standardized testing. As with any new proposal, it’s the details that matter: the changes

Planners map Upper Kirby/Montrose traffic improvements

January 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

Anna Marie Kilday has some interesting coverage of recent Upper Kirby/Montrose traffic planning developments. As she notes in the Chronicle‘s “This Week” section, everything from returning West Alabama to four lanes to providing center-median barriers

Agenda trumps fact in recent Chron editorial

January 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran such a stunningly erroneous and misleading editorial last Tuesday that it’s taken a while to prepare an adequate, careful critique. The editorial and critique are so convoluted as to require something of

A "forum for new ideas" or a platform for strawman attacks?

January 23, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last Wednesday, the Chronicle‘s cultural blogger Kyrie O’Connor responded to recent comments by Harvard president Larry Summers: It’s just not possible to have to go through this again. It’s not possible that the president of

Developers should make an effort to save trees

January 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 has a story about developers leveling large areas of trees to build new developments and how Harris County might address the problem: Trees don’t stand a chance against progress, and they continue to be

Trying to preserve that rural feeling in Spring

January 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here are a couple of stories from far North Harris County. The first is an update on the Grand Parkway, which may become a county project through the Toll Road Authority. Some residents in Spring

Clear Channel takes top spot in latest Arbitrons

January 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

The latest Arbitron radio ratings for Houston are out, and Banjo Jones analyzes them over at the Brazosport News. The talkers at Clear Channel seemed mighty happy earlier. As it turns out, Clear Channel took

Food and drink roundup (1-21-2005 edition)

January 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

Houston’s food and drink reviewers report on mostly good experiences this week. Alison Cook seems to like Velio Deplano’s Antica Osteria, located in the two-story structure that once housed the Detering Book Gallery. Robb Walsh