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Council to consider expanded airport bus-shuttle service

May 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that City Council is considering allowing expanded bus-shuttle service to Houston’s airports: Houston’s city council is scheduled to vote this week on a plan that would let you share a ride

Avondale residents want downtown/midtown nuisance ordinance

May 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 reports that Avondale residents are asking Council to approve a nuisance ordinance for their neighborhood: The crime comes up when the sun goes down in Avondale. The Houston neighborhood, concerned about its image and

Barron: KILT still the leader in local sports talk

May 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s David Barron has the latest Arbitron numbers for local sports talk radio, and once again KILT-610 leads KBME-790. It wouldn’t be the Chronicle if there weren’t an error in the copy: In afternoon

Will Houston's downtown park include pooper scooper stations?

May 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

The final plan for Houston’s new downtown park is ready to be unveiled: Planners have settled on a final design for a new park that could be the centerpiece for the east side of downtown

Black Monday for Hearst dailies?

May 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Newspaper Association of America has analyzed the latest newspaper circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, and the results are not good for the industry overall or for the local Hearst daily: Newspaper

METRO: Please focus on what we say, not on what we do

May 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

Metro knows it’s facing a public relations problem with its efforts to get the new University Line running down Richmond Avenue; that’s why Metro officials have cautioned against giving the impression that Metro’s mind is

Surge in violent crime blamed on Katrina, lack of HPD manpower

May 7, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Allan Turner reports that Katrina refugees are being blamed by HPD for the recent surge in violent crime in Houston: Violence among Hurricane Katrina evacuees, much of it occurring in southwest Houston neighborhoods

Editorial LiveJournalists opine for the Pope

May 7, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists took it upon themselves to advise the Pope (for real!): TRIAL BALOON: Vatican mulls whether married couples may use condoms if one partner has HIV Leaving aside the presumptuousness of

Predictable, but unnecessary

May 7, 2006 Kevin Whited

Predictably, the Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists weighed in excitedly today over the possibility that an innocent man has been executed in Texas, due in part to contentions about faulty arson evidence in a study commissioned by

TSU raises tuition and fees

May 6, 2006 Anne Linehan

By twenty-one percent: Texas Southern University students will pay 21.5 percent more in tuition and fees this fall, the school’s governing board decided Friday amid concerns over a multimillion-dollar budget gap. One supposes TSU has