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Cactus Music is closing at the end of March

February 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

H-Town Grooves and Jeff Balke both have posted that Cactus Music and Video is closing up shop. A phone call to the venerable record store confirmed the bad news: Cactus is indeed closing at the

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Free tickets to Rice baseball or basketball

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Are you interested in Rice basketball or baseball? If so, you have a couple of days left to score free tickets: Make it a day with the Owls on Sat., Feb. 4, as Rice’s baseball

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Queen Sheila heads for the Enron cameras

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Fresh off her usual appearance at the State of the Union proceedings, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D) has made a beeline for the media horde covering Enron. The Chronicle‘s Mary Flood blogs about it: The

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Houston airports are world class!

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Houston Business Journal reports that the Houston Airport system has launched a revamped, more interactive website. We clicked over, and were pleased to learn from the banner that our airports are world class. Yeah!

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Stealing or accounting oversight?

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Last week, reports surfaced that officials at Texas Southern University here in town are investigating the use of funds by the institution’s president on her private residence (some people might call that use of funds

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Is Rick Casey "borrowing" without attribution again? (upated)

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Sedosi Alhambra noticed something interesting about the latest offering from Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey. In the column, Casey effectively uses a decision by an Austin bankruptcy judge to criticize the recent

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Kevin Whited in the Wall Street Journal

February 2, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried a subscriber-only story that featured a quote from blogHOUSTON’s own Kevin Whited. The story, by Susan Warren, was about the Enron trial — how local media is covering it, and

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KHOU: Federal judge rules in favor of reassigned police officer

February 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 is reporting that a federal judge has ruled in favor of officer Tom Nixon, who brought suit after being assigned to desk duty for speaking out against the department’s pursuit policy: A Houston police

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Why Harris County might want to sell HCTRA

February 1, 2006 Anne Linehan

In a post over at the Houston Architecture Info Forum about Harris County studying whether or not it should keep HCTRA (Harris County Toll Road Authority), there are a couple of intriguing responses: Because they

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Icing down the Azalea Trail

February 1, 2006 Anne Linehan

We’ve had a wonderful winter this year, temperature-wise, which is bad when one is trying to time azalea blooming: Thanks to this mild winter, spring is inching ever closer. Too close for Bart Brechter, garden

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