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Welcome to Houston, Barry

May 14, 2006 Kevin Whited

The San Francisco Giants come to town tomorrow for a three-game set with the Astros. The big news is Giants’ slugger Barry Bonds and his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run tally. One local blogger

Police officer takes on Danger Train, loses

May 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” suffered another collision with a motorist this afternoon. This time, an off-duty police officer was involved in the collision: An off-duty Houston police officer was involved in a collision with a

DA's office looks into Alvarado's consulting arrangements

May 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that the Harris County District Attorney’s office is looking into Councilmember Carol Alvarado’s arrangements with various consulting firms for potential conflicts of interest: The Harris County District Attorney’s office is taking

Ongoing "code of silence" at HPD?

May 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle runs a story by Harvey Rice today that reports on the latest allegations of a pervasive anti-whistleblower, retaliatory atmosphere within the ranks of the Houston Police Department’s traffic enforcement division. The story is

Chron headline writers still have problems with gas

May 13, 2006 Kevin Whited

Chron.com posted an AP story yesterday with the following headline: Texas gas prices fall for second week in row KPRC-2 posted the same story with the following headline: AAA: Texas Gasoline Prices Fall For Second

blogHOUSTON gathering Wednesday, May 17 (POSTPONED)

May 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

The blogHOUSTON crew is planning a get-together next Wednesday (May 17) at Byzantio on West Gray. We’ll get started about 4:30 pm or so, and go well into the evening. Byzantio does have free wireless

Rice students produce alternative fuel (and yummy smelling exhaust!)

May 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

Rice University students have developed an experimental bio-diesel fuel processing plant: Could the road to relief at the pump be paved with French fries? That might sound crazy, but it’s a real theory being explored

Houston: a model light rail city…but not in a good way

May 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

Phoenix is building a downtown light rail line and is looking to Houston on, ahem, how NOT to do things: When light-rail trains roll through busy Valley streets, transit officials hope they run more like

Server crash scrambles today's posts/comments (updated)

May 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

Unfortunately, the server hosting blogHOUSTON experienced a hardware failure earlier, following routine maintenance. The hosting service had to restore backups to a new server, but those backups were from yesterday, so posts and comments from

KPRC: Alvarado begs municipal employees to help pay legal bills

May 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

Councilmember Carol Alvarado has managed to get herself back in the news. Here’s the latest from KPRC-2: Several Houston City Hall employees are upset after receiving fundraising e-mails for City Council member Carol Alvarado, KPRC