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Brazos Bookstore finds buyer

June 25, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle reports that the Brazos Bookstore has (finally) found a group of buyers: Brazos [Bookstore] seemed highly endangered this spring. Since it opened in 1974, owner Karl Kilian had overseen its daily operations, making

New bayou park's plants handle rains with no trouble

June 25, 2006 Kevin Whited

We’ve wondered several times on the little blog how Houston’s newest (better than the River Walk!) bayou park fared after the heavy rains of the last week. According to the park’s stewards, everything turned out

Chron reader rep defends Spanish sports section, rips critics' motives

June 25, 2006 Kevin Whited

James Campbell, the Chronicle‘s reader representative, has an odd column today in which he basically attributes racist/nativist motives to those who question why the city’s only English-language daily insists on taking up valuable sports-page real

Alvarado hits the road in effort to pay legal bills

June 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack reported Friday that Councilmember Carol Alvarado is busy trying to raise cash for her legal fund: HOUSTON City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado is taking her fundraising show on the road. She’s collecting

SEIU: Equal opportunity campaign-finance rogue

June 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists had a fun observation in today’s editorial celebrating Gay Pride Week: Although recent years have seen voter approval of a state constitutional ban on gay marriage and the defeat of efforts

Now it's SplashTown's future that's uncertain

June 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Six Flags has announced that SplashTown is one of six properties it is considering either selling or shutting down: Theme park owner Six Flags says it it could sell or even close six of its

University line meetings

June 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Metro has scheduled two University-line meetings next week: University Corridor Scoping Meeting Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Third Ward Multi-Service Center 3611 Ennis 4-7 p.m. University Corridor Scoping Meeting Thursday, June 29, 2006 Holiday Inn Select

Civilian cop program slides into new city budget at cost of $10 million

June 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Holy moly: KTRH-740 is reporting that MayorWhiteChiefHurtt’s civilian traffic patrol will now cost $10 million for four or five years: A last minute add-in to Houston Mayor Bill White’s newly-approved budget will end up costing

KHOU wins two Murrow awards

June 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 has won two national Edward R. Murrow awards, one in the Feature-Hard News category for a story by Jeremy Desel entitled, “Firefighters: Cancer”: The report documented the cancer risks Houston Fire Department firefighters face

Food and drink roundup (06-22-2006 edition)

June 22, 2006 Callie Markantonis

The time has come for a food and drink roundup. Let’s get started, shall we? Alison Cook starts off this week’s food and drink roundup with an essay on home-grown tomatoes. Having eaten several tomatoes