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Richmond Avenue business owners protest future rail line

December 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

I meant to do a post last week pointing out that Metro’s Solutions Meetings announcement page has been empty for a while now. No meetings must mean that Houston is feeling all warm and fuzzy

Fun KTRK Friday headlines

December 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 had an unusual headline posted earlier: Those who click into the story expecting to find an *ahem* unusual sketch will be disappointed relieved. Instead, it appears that the headline writer on the website may

Metro hires Chronicle editor

December 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

A Chronicle assistant editor has moved to Metro to become its Media Relations director: Staff Announcement Dec. 6, 2005 Please note the following new members of METRO’s External Affairs team: Raequel Roberts Media Relations Director

MediaSource director to resign

December 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that the director of MediaSource, the custodian for Houston’s public access cable television channel, has decided to resign: Patti Garlinghouse, who supporters say has transformed Houston MediaSource since she took

Conroe begins process of annexing part of The Woodlands

December 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

Nevermind Houston trying to annex The Woodlands, Conroe is already making moves in that direction: City officials took preliminary steps Thursday to extend the city’s boundaries into The Woodlands, despite outcries from several residents who

High tech traffic citation truck on the prowl

December 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Back in November, Anne Linehan linked to a KHOU-11 story about a new $150,000 high-tech truck that’s being used to track down cars with outstanding traffic citations. Today, KTRK-13 posts a story from Tom Abrahams

Brrr

December 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

One of the more amusing things about living in Houston is watching the local newscasts as the first freeze of the year approaches. The 10 pm broadcasts tonight are all over the story. It may

Grand Parkway musings (updated)

December 8, 2005 Anne Linehan

Over at the Houston Architecture Forum, pineda has posted an interesting hypothetical question: Say that you were told that a major road would be going within 500′ of your local high school, with the intermediate

Houston debates illegal alien sanctuary policy

December 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

City council heard public comments on Houston’s unofficially official sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants and Councilmember Mark Ellis’ proposal to end the policy: Houston residents asked a divided City Council Tuesday to end an official

Justice: Fire Casserly; No, keep him

December 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

We thought that Chronicle sports columnists had gotten past spinning for Texans general manager Charley Casserly. Then we read Richard Justice’s latest: Dom Capers should do something bold this morning. Like fire Vic Fangio. Maybe