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Municipal politics beat needs a boost

January 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

In December of last year, a California court ruled that Los Angeles city council members must pay attention during testimony by parties appearing before council. The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack, assigned to the municipal politics beat

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Another Park and Ride bites the dust

January 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro is closing another Park and Ride lot: Due to low usage, METRO will close the Alief Park & Ride Lot at 8901 Boone Road and discontinue the Alief portion of the 262 Alief/Westwood route

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Counter-inaugural parade fashion disaster

January 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Rob Booth points out that the Chronicle covered a counter-inaugural parade in downtown Houston but failed to provide pictures. Courageous Rob dove into Houston’s IndyMedia website to give us links (and a warning!) to pictures

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Olds: Chron editorial board criticizes Brown administration

January 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, we briefly noted a Chronicle staff editorial criticizing the administration of former mayor Lee P. Brown. Here is an excerpt from that editorial: The indictment of another Brown administration official indicates influence peddling at

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$AFEclear inspires more memorable quotes

January 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has a wrap-up story on city council’s decision to delay voting on Mayor White’s proposed $AFEclear changes. Just like yesterday’s Chronicle story that had some off-the-wall councilmember quotes, today’s story has a couple

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An editorial page survey of inaugural commentary

January 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s interim editorial page editor James Howard Gibbons made some curious decisions with today’s editorial page. The Chronicle chose not to devote a staff editorial to the second inauguration of President Bush. Instead, one

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McGilbra supervised construction of 911 call center

January 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s an eye-opening paragraph in a Chronicle article about former Brown administration official Monique McGilbra: The charges surrounded an energy contract she oversaw. As the head of the city’s Building Services Department, she also helped

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News changes around town

January 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

Ken Hoffman reports that KTRK-13 is bringing in some fresh blood for the anchor desk: Channel 13 has hired a new anchor for its 4 p.m. weekday newscast. She’s Ilona Carson, who’s coming here from

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Chron SAFEclear editorial: Better late than never?

January 19, 2005 Kevin Whited

On January 9 (and in subsquent posts), we criticized SAFEclear advisor and political science professor Bob Stein’s admission that one key assumption in the original SAFEclear program was that the cars of some motorists would

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Was expanding the GRB Convention Center worth it?

January 19, 2005 Anne Linehan

L.M. Sixel has a report on the lack of booming business the George R. Brown Convention Center has experienced since its expansion — taxpayer-financed expansion, of course: Houston celebrated with fireworks when it kicked off

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