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The Astrodome Hotel boondoggle

August 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

So, some group has obtained funding to turn the Astrodome into a hotel/village. What a ridiculous idea. Sedosi, Tom Kirkendall and Owen Courreges covered the main problems of this impending fiasco very nicely. Here’s Sedosi:

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Chron swings, misses on 9-11 march/concert

August 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle editorial board almost had it. They were so close today. They managed to put out a topic sentence with some potential: The decision by Bush administration officials to sponsor a march from the

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Big man: Chron gossip columnist takes on low-level bureaucrat

August 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey apparently didn’t have anything to write about today. But, he didn’t let that stop him. Here’s a snippet from today’s column of gossip: May I be so

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Press readers respond to Taste of Texas review

August 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last week, Houston Press food critic Robb Walsh posted a review of Taste of Texas that took an unusual turn into personal and political territory. blogHOUSTONians pointed out the problems with the review. The latest

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Does the Chronicle have an "inside-the-loop" bias?

August 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

John Wagner makes an interesting point about the Chronicle: Just about every weekend, you can find an obvious representation of the Houston Chronicle’s “inside-the-loop” bias. It works like this: Anything downtown-related is cool; anything outside

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The heat in Crawford's getting to the journalists also

August 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

A Crawford dispatch from the Chronicle D.C. bureau’s Julie Mason, like much of that bureau’s reporting, suffers from some problems. There’s this: Sheehan’s 10-day vigil took its new turn when Fred Mattlage, from nearby Hewitt,

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Metro's July revenue plummets more than 50%

August 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tom Bazan emails Metro’s July’s farebox revenue numbers: The METRO fare box revenue for July 2005 DECLINED 56.6% ($1,654,991.17) from July 2004 ($3,817,130.00). Further, for the pro-METRORail folks, the TVM (Ticket Vending Machine) revenue for

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Rep. Noriega is back from Afghanistan — and the Chron got it right this time

August 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yep, the Chronicle finally figured out that state Rep. Rick Noriega was in Afghanistan, as opposed to Iraq: Houston state Rep. Rick Noriega spent a year 8,000 miles away and got a new perspective on

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HPD announces more property room discoveries

August 16, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel reports that evidence from a number of capital murder cases has recently been discovered in HPD’s property room: Dozens of boxes of evidence were found in the HPD property room last year

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Chron slow to criticize abortion-rights group

August 16, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sedosi Alhambra was not overly impressed with the Chronicle editorial board’s criticism of NARAL today: You have to feel sorry for Mrs. White. There are eleven minds that share her affections, five of which probably

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