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Market Square to hold World Series viewing parties

October 22, 2005 Anne Linehan

Market Square is the place to be if you want to watch Game 1 tonight downtown in a big crowd: The Downtown Entertainment District announced that the first viewing party will be held for the

I-10 closed this weekend at the West Loop

October 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Watch out for this freeway closure beginning tonight: The Katy Freeway will be shut down all weekend beginning at 9 p.m. Friday. The eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 10 Katy Freeway at Loop 610

Chronicle should put more Darfur reporting on news pages

October 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s editorial board has written again on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan: Recently, refugees began clearing out of camps and returning to their land to plant crops in the hopes that African Union peacekeepers,

I-45 expansion plan update

October 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

via KUHF-88.7: Plans to expand I-45, the North Freeway, are moving forward again. A Houston-Galveston area council committee approved the revised plan today. It’ll now go before the Transportation Policy Council next week Click to

Metro's trying to emulate Dallas with new development

October 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Nancy Sarnoff has more details on Metro’s foray into real estate development: The city’s transit authority has selected Houston-based Transwestern Commercial Services to build the project, which could include condominiums, a hotel, office and retail

Gasp: Instapundit disses Texas BBQ

October 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Ahem. It appears that Instapundit has a problem with Texas BBQ: IT’S THE SMELL OF TEXAS HOME COOKIN’ — and I don’t mean that beef stuff they pass off as barbecue. WHAT?! That boy needs

Bettencourt warns on property tax appraisal creep

October 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

In recent years, Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt has been one of several local conservatives raising awareness of the growing problem of property tax appraisal creep. The Chronicle‘s Bill Murphy reports that Bettencourt was

Good writing on the Astros

October 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

Buster Olney has a good bit of writing about the Astros on ESPN.com: Oswalt needed one more out to finish the seventh and with his pitch count at 114, Oswalt emptied the tank against the

Metro to build the Danger Train Hotel

October 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Since the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas can’t make any money on the transit portion of its name, it has decided to go into real estate development, thereby becoming the Metropolitan Property Development

Your chance to play Chronicle editor

October 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

Rob Booth passes along this update from the Houston Chronicle. Tom DeLay fingerprinted and released From staff and wire reports U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself in today at a Harris County sheriff’s facility, where