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Was that a news story worth considering?

December 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

After watching this Mark Greenblatt story last night, I wondered what he might have left out. Was there any context missing? Was it one-sided and presented so as to make CCCS look as bad as

METRO doesn't join other transit agencies in honoring Parks

December 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Tom Abrahams reports that METRO didn’t do anything special to honor Rosa Parks today: Fifty years ago a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white

Council considers broader panhandling measure

December 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

City Council is mulling Councilman Michael Berry’s proposal to broaden panhandling restrictions on Houston roadways: What began as a limited plan to ban younger children from soliciting charity money on Houston streets is now a

Metro's "stray current" problem has not gone away

December 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

A KTRH-740 newsbreak just reported a story with which blogHOUSTON readers are familiar, thanks to the determination of Tom Bazan — “stray current” associated with Metro’s light rail. The KTRH story said that TxDOT engineers

SEIU wins over janitors, sets sights on city employees

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

The city’s local media have engaged in a fair amount of cheerleading over the fact that the Service Employee’s International Union will be moving into Houston in order to better the lives of janitors citywide

Law enforcement links MS-13 to organized crime in Houston

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Ted Oberg and KHOU-11’s Amy Tortolani seem to have attended the same briefing on shoplifing and MS-13. Here’s an excerpt from Oberg’s reporting: Organized crime is active in Houston and police say the crooks

Council tables latest MediaSource vote

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Carolyn Campbell reports that Council today tabled a vote on a new contract for MediaSource, the controversial custodian of the public access cable channel. The contract apparently will impose (minimal) new screening requirements on

Rick Casey: telephone-challenged AND school voucher-supporter?

November 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

The New York Times has had an ongoing problem with its star columnists either getting their facts wrong or making up facts out of thin air, and then refusing to issue corrections. The Chronicle‘s Rick

Mayor comments on HPD's manpower problems

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

Nothing causes the White Administration to swing into action like negative reporting, and so several media reports on HPD’s worsening manpower woes and four hours of criticism from Chris Baker yesterday in response to Chief

Metro's world-class fare collection system

November 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

via Laurence Simon: The farebox on the 9 bus this morning (#3331) was broken and covered up with a world-class plastic bag. I see this at least twice a week. Roughly, that’s a 10% failure