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Councilwoman Lovell lashes out at HISD for gang killing

June 14, 2006 Anne Linehan

I can’t find the story online, but last night KPRC-2 highlighted a bizarre outburst by Councilwoman Sue Lovell directed at HISD. She’s decided to lay some blame for last week’s gang melee and killing at

Metro board to discuss Park and Pillage security cams

June 14, 2006 Anne Linehan

Remember last year when Metro stopped employing security staff at Park and Rides, thereby allowing Park and Rides to turn into Park and Pillages? And remember how Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert admitted he had

Editorial Livejournalists suffer Riverwalk envy

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists seem to have gotten a little too much sun. Here’s their conclusion to a utopian editorial about the splendor of Buffalo Bayou (still a muddy, nasty little creek-like thing last time

Bromwich requests another $1.5 million for crime lab probe

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

Michael Bromwich, the independent investigator looking into problems with the HPD crime lab, is asking the city for another $1.5 million to complete his investigation, Matt Stiles reports. Mayor White and Councilmember Garcia seem to

Council committee works on graffiti proposal

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740 reports that City Council may soon be voting to toughen the city’s graffiti ordinances: The proposal requires property owners to remove graffiti within 10 days of being notified of its existence. City officials say

Visitors to airports website get a surprise

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that visitors to the Houston Airports website got a surprise earlier today: The Houston Airport System redirected to an adults-only Web site for a few hours Monday. The Web site www.fly2houston.com, owned by

The new Hearst mothership does not resemble 801 Texas Avenue

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

Apparently the death of newspapers (or at least Hearst ones) has been greatly exaggerated, judging from the organization’s fancy new headquarters. As both Slampo and Banjo Jones pointed out recently, the New York Times referred

Is the rail line "world class" if it has two CVS pharmacies?

June 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

In a recent Chronicle column, Nancy Sarnoff noted the latest mega-development along the Main Street light rail line: More than two years after Metro’s light rail line took its maiden voyage, development along the 7.5-mile

A Bob Stein sighting!

June 13, 2006 Anne Linehan

Have you been missing Houston’s favorite bicyclist Bob Stein as much as we have? He’s been pretty scarce lately, at least in local media stories. Thankfully, the Christian Science Monitor called up Houston’s expert-on-almost-everything for

Measuring Houston's economy and labor market

June 13, 2006 Anne Linehan

“Houston lags in education,” is the headline of an L.M. Sixel story in today’s Chronicle: More students need to graduate from high school and college if the Houston area is going to be competitive in