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KRIV: HUD audit finds problems in Houston housing program

April 10, 2009 Kevin Whited

KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey broke a story last night on a HUD audit of a City of Houston housing program: The audit is best described as explosive. It targets the City of Houston’s Housing Department. It

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March sales tax revenue down

April 10, 2009 Anne Linehan

A sign of the times (via HBJ): During the month, the state collected $1.58 billion in sales tax revenue, 3.8 percent less than in March 2008. In February, sales tax revenue was down 2.6 percent

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Does Bill White hate puppies? (cont'd)

April 9, 2009 Kevin Whited

Craig Malisow continues his diligent reporting for the Houston Press on the deplorable conditions at BARC. Here is the lede from today’s post: A faulty anesthesia machine, a dog that nearly escaped during euthanasia, poor

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HairBalls broadens the media-crit beat!

April 9, 2009 Kevin Whited

Richard Connelly, who once had a serious media-criticism column for the Houston Press, lately has been reduced to lamenting all the conservative talk on KTRH-740 on the publication’s Hair Balls blog (as an aside, some

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KHOU's Desel exposes light-rail cost discrepancies; METRO refuses to comment

April 7, 2009 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel has been examining what METRO is telling the public about the costs of rail expansion versus what METRO is telling the federal government about the costs of rail expansion, and — shock!

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Stiles hits the state ethics beat

April 6, 2009 Kevin Whited

Today’s Chronicle has a feature by Matt Stiles on state Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston. Here’s an excerpt: If he were a baseball player, state Sen. Rodney Ellis would be flirting with the Mendoza Line,

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Two opinions on the Chron from around the local blogosphere

April 5, 2009 Kevin Whited

The County Seat blog updates us on the activities of Chronicle metro/state/teen diarist Lisa Falkenberg, who apparently spoke recently to the grownups at a Democratic Party event that reportedly later involved serious discussion about candidates

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Adventures in downsizing, Jeff Cohen-style

April 4, 2009 Anne Linehan

A commenter on the Chron’s reader rep blog (an oxymoron in its current form) offers this: The only things I have noticed since the Chronicle’s re-organization are: 1) The blogs are updated less frequently 2)

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Pasadena gets METRO service; far-flung Harris County suburbs still have nothing

April 4, 2009 Anne Linehan

Chron.com reports that METRO is unveiling a Park and Pillage, er, Ride, in Pasadena on Monday: The city of Pasadena does not contribute sales tax revenue to Metro, so Harris County is using federal transportation

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Gexa Energy security breach compromises customer information

April 2, 2009 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports that local electricity provider Gexa Energy suffered a security breach that compromised personal information of customers: If you are a customer of Gexa Energy, your personal information may have been compromised. The personal

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