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One million trees for Houston!

October 6, 2008 Anne Linehan

Awesome: Houston Mayor Bill White said the city would plant 1 million trees in the Houston area within the next five years. White joined with the Houston Parks Department, Trees for Houston, the Texas Department

METRO's advantage: tax dollars

October 6, 2008 Anne Linehan

In today’s Move It! column (one of the last?), Rad Sallee talks about how Wall Street’s problems affect local transportation entities. Here are a couple of excerpts: County Judge Ed Emmett said the toll road

DPW to city: Please give us $3.5 million more for water meters, and we PROMISE results by 2012

October 5, 2008 Anne Linehan

Nevermind that the original project was supposed to cost $50 million and be completed in 2003. Then in 2006, it was guesstimated the project would cost $75 million and be completed in 2008. So, here

It's buyout time at the Chronicle!

October 3, 2008 Kevin Whited

A friend recently alerted us that buyouts were being finalized this week at the Chronicle Apparently, today is the day for some of the announcements. We presume this blog post from Julie Mason is related

Texas Watchdog posts Council financial info online

October 1, 2008 Kevin Whited

Texas Watchdog, which announced a few weeks ago that it was looking into city ethics info that was supposed to be public but wasn’t, has now posted Council financial disclosures (which are also required to

Post-Ike blogger gathering Saturday, Oct. 4

September 30, 2008 Kevin Whited

Now that Houston is almost back to normal following the storm, it seems like a good time for a post-Ike blogger gathering. We’re planning on hitting the West Alabama Ice House on Saturday, October 4,

HPD asks for another $1.25 million for crime lab

September 30, 2008 Anne Linehan

Talk about a money drain. From Chron.com: The Houston Police Department is asking City Council to approve $1.25 million to hire outside scientists to review all tests done by the recently reopened DNA crime lab.

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion blown to bits by Ike

September 28, 2008 Anne Linehan

I missed this among all the Hurricane Ike news: The Pavilion suffered severe damage to its Teflon coated Fiberglas fabric roof and support structure over the reserved seating area, said officials. A structural engineering firm

METRO bus driver kills woman; METRO investigates

September 26, 2008 Anne Linehan

Earlier this week, a METRO bus driver killed a woman who had just exited the bus. Both KRIV-26 (Fox) and KHOU-11 have stories that suggest METRO officials might not be able to blame this accident

METRO says "safety" prevents HOV-lane openings; Judge Emmett criticizes

September 23, 2008 Kevin Whited

A reader who resides in Clear Lake emailed us yesterday complaining that METRO continues to run its park-and-ride buses on the main lanes instead of the HOV lanes, turning her commute into a two hour