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HPD's manpower shortage (cont'd)

January 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

HPD’s multi-faceted attempt to address increasing crime and decreasing manpower may soon include luring police officers away from other Texas police departments: “I’m sorry. it’s business,” said Lt. Kenneth Miller of the Houston Police Department’s

War on terror moves to Pakistan, upsets Chron editorialists

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists tried to get all serious today. They’re REALLY upset about the drone attack on terrorists in Pakistan: WHEN missiles from an unmanned CIA Predator aircraft slammed into the Pakistani village of

Why bother with details in crime reporting?

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s crime reporting takes an interesting, if not entirely informative, turn today: Police are searching for four men who smashed a jewelry case inside the Memorial City Mall this morning and ran off with

Extra! Extra!

January 17, 2006 Kevin Whited

Stop the presses. A little-known Democrat with no chance of winning invoked Tom DeLay’s name in the 7th Congressional District. This merited 10 paragraphs of coverage in the Chronicle today. It’s not clear why. BLOGVERSATION:

Chief Hurtt isn't rolling out the welcome mat for the Guardian Angels

January 17, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Guardian Angels have arrived and a KTRH-740 news break mentioned that Chief Hurtt is none too happy about it. This KHOU-11 story echoes that: The Guardian Angels’ No. 2 man is in town from

Lakewood Church sells "the tube"

January 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

Lakewood Church has sold KTBU-55 (“The Tube”). Mike McGuff has the details.

Is there any fireable offense at the City of Houston?

January 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

A civil-service arbitrator today held that Police Chief Harold Hurtt could not fire an HPD officer who allegedly downloaded and passed around nude photos from the camera phone of a woman he arrested: A Houston

Chronicle reports on crime in the city

January 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle has run several stories on Houston’s crime problem. MayorWhiteChiefHurtt’s preferred bogeyman (“bad” apartment complexes) gets some play, but there are also illustrations of HPD’s manpower shortage. It’s some interesting reporting from out and

HBJ business humor: The bank of Lee P (cont'd)

January 16, 2006 Kevin Whited

The usually staid Houston Business Journal seems to be trying its hand at business humor today: Popular ex-mayor banks on new career Newly minted investor Lee Brown wants to expand Unity National Bank’s focus in

Metro posts new service change announcement, still no meeting info

January 16, 2006 Anne Linehan

Metro has posted a new notice of its latest service adjustments. This notice doesn’t mention the public input meeting Metro was going to have somewhere around January 22-23, and some of the wording has been