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No proof of car insurance? Say adios to your car

July 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

So Garland, TX, has red light cameras and Houston is following suit. Look what else Garland and some other Texas cities are doing: This week, the city of Mesquite became one of a growing number

Councilman proposes TIRZs help pay for police services

July 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

Councilman Adrian Garcia is trying to get TIRZs (tax increment reinvestment zones) to pay for law enforcement services: Houston City Councilman Adrian Garcia is working on a plan to get the city’s 22 tax increment

East End leaders want extended Metro routes, or a refund

July 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

East End civic groups want Metro to include two extensions in the new $2 billion expansion plan: The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s plans fail to capitalize on the potential for riders in the East End, which

Show us the money

July 16, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack today reports on fundraising for area political races, including the $2.2 million raised by Mayor White. We’d surely like to see more frequent updates on local politics from Mack. If only

A positive HISD story…in the Dallas Morning News

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Did you know that HISD bus drivers have been through a terrorism-training awareness program? I didn’t, but the Dallas Morning News has the details: Since the Beslan attack in September, transportation officials across Texas have

Houston's "When We Feel Like It" Information Source

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

It appears Houston’s Daily Information Source was able to send a reporter to cover Mayor White speaking to some civic groups and ACORN, a LIBERAL advocacy group: Mayor Bill White said Wednesday that he wants

METRO deploys elite counterterror unit

July 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

Remember how METRO got rid of security at its Park and Ride lots, thereby leading to predictable burglary (including tailgate theft)? It turns out the cash-strapped organization must have needed to save that money to

Rick Casey 'Economic LiveJournal' debuts!

July 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey decides today to play economist. Casey apparently doesn’t much like the incentive packages used to entice formerly large mail-order firms like Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s to

Feds get two more MS-13 bad guys

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested two more MS-13 members in Houston: William Orlando Lima-Hernandez, 25, a citizen of Guatemala, was picked up at a construction sight [sic] off Kirkwood Dr. in Houston. ICE agents

Metro has to pay those salaries somehow

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Sedosi points to the tail end of today’s Chronicle story on Metro’s SWAT/SORT: In other business, the Metro board extended President and CEO Frank Wilson’s four-year contract until 2010. Wilson turned down an offer to