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Council delays action on airport-shuttle proposal

May 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Alexis Grant reports that City Council has delayed action on a plan to allow one company to offer door-to-door shuttle service from the airport after objections from cab companies and another shuttle company:

Customer service, Metro-style

May 11, 2006 Anne Linehan

This would be so sad, if it was unpredictable. But Metro’s customer service is predictably bad, as we all know from reading Laurence Simon’s adventures. Laurence mentioned this classic Metro-moment, courtesy of a Chron.com blogger:

Rep. DeLay to step down June 9

May 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

Rep. Tom DeLay’s office passes along the following letter that was delivered to the Speaker of the House today: Dear Mr. Speaker: It has been a great privilege, a high honor, and one of my

Chron's Manfull reports on the future! (updated)

May 10, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Megan Manfull reports that Charley Casserly’s future status with the Texans will be officially determined today: Texans general manager Charley Casserly is expected to resign during a meeting with owner Bob McNair today,

KHOU: HPD crime lab report due Thursday

May 10, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 reports that Michael Bromwich is set to release an update on the investigation of the HPD crime lab. The report will presumably be available on the investigation website, following the requisite press briefing. UPDATE

Food and drink roundup (05-10-2006 edition)

May 10, 2006 Callie Markantonis

Shall we do another Food and Drink Roundup? Let’s. Alison Cook wants to like the avant-garde approach of laidback manor and the Italian fare at Bice but doesn’t quite get there with either. Robb Walsh

Time to scale back Metro's eminent domain authority?

May 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

We’ve posted before on Metro’s eye-popping ability to condemn land — a 1,500-foot radius around any transit station — and now state Rep. Martha Wong is contemplating doing something to reduce that: State Rep. Martha

San Antonio sues online travel companies

May 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

Last month Mayor White tried to convince City Council to approve his idea to go after online travel websites for underpaid hotel occupancy taxes. Controller Annise Parker and Council expressed skepticism that the city would

Chron press release poses as news story on circulation

May 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, we posted that newspaper circulation figures had been released, and noted that we were looking forward to the spin that Chronicle publisher Jack Sweeney would put on the news. We didn’t have to wait

Chron Austin bureau chief's biases revealed

May 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

Every Sunday, the Chronicle‘s Austin bureau chief takes off his “objective” newsman hat and puts on his lefty editorialist beret. Every once in a while, it’s useful simply to point out some of the lefty