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Local attorney bestows special award on Jared Woodfill

November 25, 2008 Kevin Whited

Various news sources have reported an old story with a new (?) twist: Harris County GOP Jared Woodfill has called for a Harris County judge to resign over emails that apparently sparked some controversy in

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Maybe Houston's red light cams can apply for a FEMA grant

November 25, 2008 Anne Linehan

The Chron’s Matt Stiles notes that Hurricane Ike caused the city to lose some expected revenue from the red light cameras…er, not that those cams are there to make money, of course: Only about 9,000

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Excitement* at Commissioners Court

November 23, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Liz Austin Peterson reported on some excitement at Commissioners Court this week: Fresh from a decisive re-election victory, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett is wasting no time trying to build his office’s influence

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Houston should consider "broken-windows" approach to crimefighting

November 23, 2008 Kevin Whited

Over the little blog’s short lifetime, we have posted with some regularity on broken-windows policing and CompStat, two approaches to crimefighting popularized by Rudy Giuliani in New York City (and treated with some disdain by

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Andrea Georgsson has left the Chronicle

November 23, 2008 Kevin Whited

Andrea Georgsson, the Houston Chronicle editorial board member who apparently violated newspaper policy by donating to political candidates, has left the newspaper. Georgsson left the newspaper just after the election, according to this column from

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Greek festival time (finally!)

November 20, 2008 Kevin Whited

Thanks to Hurricane Ike, the 42nd annual Greek Festival (put on by Annunciation Orthodox Church) was postponed from its usual time in early October. Not to worry — your chance for good souvlaki and spanokopita

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Outstanding red-light camera ticket? No car registration for you!

November 20, 2008 Anne Linehan

City Council has approved MayorWhiteChiefHurtt’s latest plan to get red light runners to pay their tickets: The City Council on Wednesday approved a measure that will allow the state to deny vehicle registration to drivers

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Armchair quarterbacking at HPD

November 19, 2008 Jason

Remember the police chase in which a man claiming to be a federal agent was shot and killed after he initiated a pursuit? Well, Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt has disciplined two officers involved in

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METRO addresses Danger Train collisions, financial deals gone bad

November 19, 2008 Kevin Whited

METRO’s expensive blogger would like you to know that the organization has a plan for dealing with those pesky cars that keep running into the Danger Train: For the past few months, left-hand turn accidents

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City to repay $15 million in HUD funds

November 18, 2008 Anne Linehan

Back in March, we noted that the city had been told to repay $15.5 million in HUD grants due to misuse of the funds. After months of negotiations, the city has finally agreed to repay

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