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Council boosts HPD cadet classes (finally)

June 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports on yesterday’s budget session at Council, where HPD and crime were big topics: About a quarter of the amendments addressed the budgets for police, fire and ambulance services. One that

Chronicle: Tilman Fertitta excited about San Antonio property!

June 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

In case anyone in Houston cares, Tilman Fertitta (CEO of Landry’s Restaurants) is practically gushing over his new restaurant in the Hemisfair tower in San Antonio. And of course the Houston Hearst daily is right

Houston + Rain + TV reporters = Foolishness

June 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

The TVSpy forums noted the latest Houston reporter to act like an idiot during flood coverage, and so has Ken Hoffman: Let this be a lesson: Channel 2 reporter Mary Benton tripped and fell off

Chron comments on nine-day-old "news"

June 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

Back on June 13, Matt Stiles and Roma Khanna reported that Mayor White was dragging his feet on Michael Bromwich’s request for another $1.5 million to continue his investigation of the HPD crime lab. Today

Latest crime acronym yields 300+ arrests (not thousands)

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

Remember last week when KHOU-11 excitedly reported on HPD’s sweeps of apartments: Houston police officers have been going undercover for weeks, arresting thousands. We questioned that figure at the time. As the Chronicle reports today,

Crime lab's DNA division gains one-year accreditation

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the AP reported that the DNA division of the HPD crime lab is set to reopen after receiving accreditation: The DNA division of the Houston Police Department’s crime lab is set to reopen after

Chron editorial board afflicted by summer silliness

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists have really been cranking out some doozies lately. You got the sense some summer silliness was getting underway when they recently compared some park space around a muddy bayou to San

Councilwoman Alvarado: What sanctuary policy?

June 21, 2006 Anne Linehan

So now a petition drive has begun in an attempt to force a city-wide vote on how HPD should handle illegal immigrants: Deriding what they call the city’s “sanctuary policy,” about a dozen members of

Marvin goes in for maintenance

June 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Marvin Zindler recently went in for some touch-up work: We received lots of calls from well-wishers through our switchboard on Monday, asking how Marvin’s doing. We wanted to let you know he’s doing fine,

Chronicle: City's homicides are like hemlines and home prices!

June 20, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Mike Tolson penned a weekend article that uses “experts” to suggest rather strongly that growing public concern over rising violent crime (as measured in recent polling) is irrational. Here is one of Tolson’s