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KHOU: HPD reaching out to Houston's homeless

July 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

The KHOU news blog posts this news about HPD: Houston police are hitting the streets to reach out to the city’s homeless population. The move comes as temperatures in the area are on the rise

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A few people stand behind Chief Hurtt

July 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

Supporters of Chief Hurtt — surely a dozen or so — organized a press event today to press the case that they back the Chief, even if the rank and file of HPD as represented

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Metro ducks and weaves down Westpark (updated)

July 18, 2006 ubu roi

Reader IHB2 pointed out in the comments (and Laurence mailed) that Rad Sallee has posted a new article with more information on Metro’s plans. The new map shows seven locations between Main and Hillcroft where

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Urban loft owners finally get trash pickup — "for now"

July 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

Matt Stiles reported over the weekend that some new urban loft owners will finally be receiving basic trash services: It took a year of complaints, two visits to City Council and a private audience with

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City tries again with municipal courts' computer system

July 18, 2006 Kevin Whited

Last week, the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles checked in on the latest state of affairs with the new computer system that has been giving Houston’s municipal courts so much trouble: If you ignored a city traffic

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Weird Astrodome resort plan isn't dead yet

July 18, 2006 Anne Linehan

The idea is to create a convention venue that has all amenities under one roof — a destination resort. Guests wouldn’t have to leave the Astrodome for anything, which makes sense, because there isn’t much

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Westpark/Richmond/University rail corridor open house Tuesday

July 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

METRO will hold the first of three open houses on the Westpark / Richmond / University rail corridor on Tuesday. The Chronicle posted these details over the weekend: Metropolitan Transit Authority has scheduled three open

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White vs. Tollett cage match in February?

July 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

After Jordy Tollett hired Rusty Hardin and proceeded to convince the GHCVB board to let him take an extended leave (including 12 weeks’ worth of vacation time), we speculated that Tollett had managed to escape

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Houston fails to make the top 100 list

July 17, 2006 ubu roi

Money magazine and CNN have released their Top 100 list of the best places in the U.S. to live. Somehow, world-class Houston failed to make the list again this year, while its (relatively) tiny neighbor,

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The Chron covers itself. Sometimes.

July 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

Newspapers are sometimes criticized for being obsessed with themselves, and we’ve seen some recent evidence to that effect from the local Hearst daily. There was this story by Clifford Pugh that ran last week week

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