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Sen. Whitmire wants $AFEclear moratorium

January 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

State Sen. John Whitmire has called for a moratorium on the $AFEclear forced-towing program: State Senator John Whitmire stated that due to the failure of city officials to consider all the negative consequences of the

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MAP: Citizen-friendly roadside assistance

January 5, 2005 Kevin Whited

Mayor White (who will be appearing on the Chris Baker program at 5:30 pm today according to Baker), Czar Saperstein, and Councilman Berry continue to spin their $AFEclear wrecker-service oligopoly scheme as a necessary solution

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Some thoughts on $AFEclear problems

January 5, 2005 Anne Linehan

Over at Lone Star Times, Owen Courreges has some thoughts on the problems with $AFEclear: […]there is a pernicious belief going around that Safe Clear will actually reduce congestion by limiting the number of wreckers

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Who could have predicted that drivers wouldn't like $AFEclear?

January 4, 2005 Anne Linehan

In what is a surprising development, Houston-area drivers are less than thrilled with the new $AFEclear towing program. Well, it’s surprising to some supporters of forced-towing: James Kahig knows the tow truck industry isn’t always

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Awaiting $AFEclear's Katy Freeway statistics

January 4, 2005 Anne Linehan

Continuing with the $AFEclear program questions, here is what Councilman Michael Berry said recently: Councilman Michael Berry, the chairman of the transportation committee, who helped White push the ordinance through in May, said motorists will

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Bush Intercontinental gets trial cargo inspection system

January 4, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 is reporting that Bush Intercontinental will be receiving $4 million to fund a trial air cargo inspection system. The KHOU story mirrors the information in a press release issued by IAH, which has more

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SAFEclear, public safety, and revenue enhancement

January 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Mayor White, Czar Saperstein, and Councilman Berry continue to insist that their new $AFEclear initiative is rooted in concerns of public safety, and not revenues for the city. Interestingly, they ignore the fact that we

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Houston talkers focus on Mayor White's SAFEclear program

January 3, 2005 Editor

With the New Year’s festivities behind, Houston drivers took to the freeways today, and many of them were confronted with Mayor White’s expensive and intrusive new SAFEclear program (which we’ve dubbed $AFEclear), by which an

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Chron eye for the death row killer guy – cont'd

January 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

We got a little nervous there for a while, but the Chronicle didn’t disappoint. The paper came through today with the latest installment of Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy. Now, they did

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Another example of missing the local angle

January 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

We’ve argued previously that we think the Chronicle needs to improve its local coverage significantly, and that it needs to exercise much better judgment about the wire copy that it runs (and edits). That’s because

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