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Robison: Where's the Christian social-welfare money catapult?

January 29, 2006 Kevin Whited

Clay Robison, the Chronicle‘s lefty weekend editorialist, is trying out a weeks–old argument in favor of increased spending on social welfare: He is the same Bill Ratliff, the unassuming engineer from Mount Pleasant who, in

Local online news developments of note

January 28, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday marked the return of Chron.com NewsMail, a daily email digest of the top stories by section on Chron.com. The last such email that I got was on December 28, 2005. When I contacted Chron.com’s

Gearing up for the Tour de Houston

January 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

Last week Mayor White announced that the second annual Tour de Houston will be held March 18th: Mayor Bill White joined State Sen. Rodney Ellis, Mayor Pro-Tem Carol Alvarado and title sponsor Guaranty Bank today

But it's a world-class catalyst for future development

January 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

Slampo tackles the Houston Pavilions topic: In the meantime, we have questions, such as why, when there’s so much concern in the air about “affordable housing,” local governments are using tax dollars (yeah, the ones

In the real (non-governmental job) world, this wouldn't be tolerated

January 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Metro bus driver who hit and killed a pedestrian, and who is on paid leave, doesn’t want to cooperate with investigators. He should be fired immediately, but there are probably some union rules that

HPD thinks wrecker-caused fatality can't be tied to Safeclear

January 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

Here’s how the city is trying to excuse itself from that Safeclear wrecker fatality incident the other day: A T&T Motors wrecker driver who caused a five-vehicle pileup that killed a motorist likely was speeding

The professional sensitives don't like Houston 1836

January 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

Well, according to the New York Times, Hispanics are outraged by the name Houston 1836: Many Latinos in Houston, though, greeted the unveiling of the team’s name this week with a shudder. Eighteen thirty-six also

HPD cracks down on New Orleans gangs

January 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

This news is most welcome: Houston police have arrested eight of 11 people believed to be involved in nine homicides in the city’s southwest side and two others in Pasadena since last November. The arrests

Sacrificing history for "progress"

January 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

Local preservationists were taken by surprise by the ongoing demolition of a historic Houston hotel: Demolition of the 1925 Penn Hotel, which quietly began Sunday, shocked Houston’s preservationists, who hadn’t considered the building endangered. The

The 36ers are too…American

January 26, 2006 Anne Linehan

Following up on the Houston 1836 name post, here’s a USA Today story that includes a critic who thinks our new team is lacking something: diversity: Juan Giraldo is the president of the Houston Toros,