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The four mile, forty minute bus ride

August 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee’s Move It! column details one Metro bus rider’s particularly bad experience: Jamie Maring writes that a 4-mile ride on a Metro bus “took 40 minutes and every part of the experience was unpleasant.”

The welcome mat isn't out at the Hilton Americas

August 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

Last night during KHOU-11‘s Hurricane Katrina coverage, it was mentioned that many Houston hotels have put up their no-vacancy signs, with a notable exception: the city-owned Hilton Americas still had 600 rooms available (out of

Casey LiveJournal: The waiting room

August 28, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today, Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey gives us one of his occasional LiveJournal accounts: With two patients ahead of me I walked out on the dermatologist after waiting 30 minutes. This time

Busy doing nothing

August 28, 2005 Kevin Whited

Wednesday, Mayor White and his Council approved a new Parking Authority Revenue Stream/Bureaucracy, thereby solving a pressing problem that nobody had noticed until Houston’s technocratic/progressive mayor and possible aspirant for higher office bounded onto the

"Reach out to Dropouts" day success

August 28, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Jennifer Radcliffe has a nice write-up of yesterday’s efforts by HISD to convince dropouts to return to school: All told, 49 dropouts re-enrolled in school Saturday and another 657 committed to returning to

The twelfth annual Theater District Open House

August 27, 2005 Anne Linehan

On Sunday, downtown’s Theater District will hold its annual Open House: The Theater District in downtown Houston hosts its annual Open House, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. The free event features backstage tours, live performances, a petting

Houston to host 2011 Senior Olympics

August 27, 2005 Anne Linehan

Houston will be hosting the Senior Olympics in 2011, Mayor White announced Friday: “We have a good six years to prepare,” White said. “We want to be in good shape and get as many people

Remembering John Jenkins

August 27, 2005 Kevin Whited

Earlier in the week, the Chronicle‘s Dale Robertson checked in on former UH football coach and offensive guru John Jenkins. Here’s a teaser: Once, John Jenkins was convinced he’d die a Houston Cougar, taking with

Sorting out Army recruitment

August 26, 2005 Kevin Whited

Recently, an internally contradictory Chronicle editorial noted the following: OF the many institutions buffeted by the controversy over the war in Iraq, the U.S. Army has been one of the more bruised. For the first

Saturday is "Reach Out To Dropouts" day for HISD

August 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Saturday is HISD’s big day to get dropouts back in school. HISD’s press office has sent out the following information: On Saturday, August 27, 1,262 volunteers and HISD teachers and officials will go door-to-door in