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Guess it depends on the meaning of "rise" (Unca Darrell)

June 11, 2008 Kevin Whited

Unca Darrell finds the latest Editorial LiveJournalist gaffe (Unca Darrell).

Councilman Rodriguez wants 200 more red light cameras!

June 11, 2008 Anne Linehan

Houston’s elected officials continue finding ways to make the city more inviting. I wonder if Councilman Rodriguez has considered checking out the engineering at all 200 intersections. Well, actually, I don’t wonder at all, because

METRO's consent agreement sidesteps committee vote

June 10, 2008 Anne Linehan

Following up on this post which noted that the City’s proposed consent agreement with METRO had moved out of committee and onto City Council’s agenda, Councilwoman Melissa Noriega emails that the consent agreement did NOT

Jason Friedman Wins Big (HouStoned Ballz)

June 9, 2008 Kevin Whited

HouStoned Ballz posts that the Press‘ Jason Friedman scored some Lone Star awards over the weekend for his coverage of Rockets’ GM Daryl Morey. (HouStoned Ballz). Congrats to Friedman! When Morey first rolled into town,

Stros 2008 Season Review, Part Two (Houston's Clear Thinkers)

June 9, 2008 Kevin Whited

Tom Kirkendall assesses the Astros 40% of the way through the season, with the sort of statistical analysis rarely deployed by the area’s sports journalists. (Houston’s Clear Thinkers)

METRO's man at the Chron spins dismal ridership statistics

June 9, 2008 Kevin Whited

Rad Sallee, METRO’s man at 801 Texas Avenue, had this interesting bit of spin in Monday’s transportation column: At the same City Council committee meeting, one speaker claimed loudly that Metro has “decimated” its bus

Now this is a dangerous part of town! (Isiah Carey's Insite)

June 9, 2008 Kevin Whited

Isiah Carey describes the madness at Airline and Hall in northeast Houston. (Isiah Carey’s Insite).

Caffeinated Wi-Fi review: Catalina Coffee (Chron TechBlog)

June 8, 2008 Kevin Whited

Dwight Silverman likes the “classic indie-coffee-shop feel” of Catalina Coffee on Washington Avenue (TechBlog).

Councilwoman Noriega will swoon for wide, shady, pole-free sidewalks

June 8, 2008 Anne Linehan

Yesterday’s Chronicle carried an op-ed by the (previously) indecisive Councilwoman Melissa Noriega, who has found something she can be decisive about: sidewalks! Not just any sidewalks, mind you. No, she wants sidewalks that are: […]

Taser audit ready

June 8, 2008 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13 got an advance look at the city’s Taser audit which shows African-Americans have been on the receiving end a majority of the time: We got these numbers ahead of the city controller’s audit expected