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Mayor White has "big plans" for second term

November 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

With 165,447 Houston voters giving him the thumbs up, Mayor White rolled to a second-term win yesterday. I was going to pull from Kristen Mack’s story, but Chron.com seems to be, ummm, in some kind

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A reverse Chron eye!

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

We’ve had a few laughs at the Chron Eye For The Death Row Killer Guy. Today, however, the Chronicle confounded us with what amounts to a reverse Chron Eye. Zeke Minaya actually profiled one of

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A sneak preview of the new Chron.com?

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The good folks at the Chronicle have been hard at work on a redesign for their website. Earlier this morning, web visitors may have gotten a sneak preview of how it’s going to look. Chris

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Apparently, 70%+ are bigoted potential KKK members

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, Texas voters overwhelmingly (76.2%) approved Proposition 2, which affords constitution status to the traditional definition of marriage. Here in Harris County, 72.5% of voters approved Proposition 2. It is worth noting that a Houston

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Chron: no need for differing opinion

November 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

Remember the Chron editorial where the editorialists raged at Harris County Tax Assessor Paul Bettencourt? This morning Bettencourt was on Edd Hendee’s show for some election analysis, and one interesting thing he mentioned was that

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Thinking about Sweeney's circulation spin

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s self-serving story explaining away its decline in circulation did not escape the keen eye of Slampo, who does quite a thorough Fisking of the entire piece on his blog. Here’s an excerpt: The

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End of the line for Gilley's

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Thayer Evans reports that the last vestiges of a Houston-area landmark of sorts are being destroyed this week: Long before Gilley’s Rodeo Arena was glamorized by the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, Terry Rinehart

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Casey: Mayors rarely move successfully to higher office

November 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey today writes about Mayor White’s resounding political victory, his possible ambitions for higher office, and the difficulties that popular mayors in Texas have had moving on to

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SAFEclear costs to go up again

November 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Mike Zientek reports on changes that Mayor White has proposed to SAFEclear in response to a federal judge’s ruling on the mandatory towing program: The mayor chose Election Day to unveil proposed changes to

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Mayor's press release poses as reporting on KHOU

November 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Chau Nguyen follows up on Doug Miller’s teaser about municipal wifi with coverage that amounts to a press release from the Mayor’s office: Mayor Bill White said that if all goes as planned, Houston

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