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Stiles: Councilmembers preparing for Controller run?

December 13, 2007 Kevin Whited

In two interesting blog posts today, the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles speculates that certain councilmembers may have begun positioning themselves for a possible City Controller run. Wouldn’t it be nice if these so-called public servants, instead

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Question about the "Baby Grace" murder case

December 13, 2007 Kevin Whited

Commenter Filio Scotia asked if we would post this query: [T]the Riley Ann Sawyers “Baby Grace” murder case has ended up in Galveston, where a grand jury has indicted the little girl’s mother and stepfather

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HouStoned interviews Proletariat owner

December 13, 2007 Kevin Whited

HouStoned Rocks posts a followup interview with Denise Ramos, who is shutting down her business (The Proletariat) to make way for METRO’s Westpark Richmond rail line. It’s an interesting read.

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Alvarado: new ordinance will make no difference, but who cares?

December 13, 2007 Anne Linehan

Councilwoman Carol Alvarado today led City Council in addressing an issue of critical importance to Houstonians: taxi cab emissions (via KHOU-11): […]city leaders want new taxi cabs to be more eco friendly. “We understand that’s

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Chron: Fountain hit with detergent or "other soap stuff"

December 12, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kevin Moran reports that Mecom Fountain got soaped earlier: People driving by the historic Mecom Fountain might have mistaken it for a bubble machine this morning because someone dumped detergent or some other

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MLK parade decision comes down to coin flip

December 12, 2007 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the battle of the competing MLK Day parades has seemingly been decided, at least for 2008: A flip of a coin determined which of two competing groups will get to hold their

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Management districts take on graffiti abatement

December 12, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Seshadri Kumar reports that management districts are taking on a bigger role in graffiti abatement: Gangs and graffiti have a new adversary to reckon with — management districts. As part of their mission

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Owner to shutter Proletariat in anticipation of METROrail

December 11, 2007 Kevin Whited

HouStoned Rocks reports that the owner of a Richmond music bar is shuttering the place in anticipation of the coming light rail fun: Proletariat owner Denise Ramos emailed the Press this morning with a statement

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Update on missing minister and a previous post

December 11, 2007 Jason

I recall a previous post that talked about the case of the missing minister whose car was found by Deputy Constables. The deputies arrested one of the occupants while releasing the other. I recall this

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Spivak: Chron reporter borrows without attribution (updated)

December 11, 2007 Kevin Whited

HouStoned’s Todd Spivak noticed something interesting in Todd Ackerman’s story about salt and nutrition in today’s Chronicle: Here is reporter Todd Ackerman putting salt into context: “Suspicions about salt are not new. In 2,500 B.C.,

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