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Not to worry, he'll get his 15+ minutes of fame to make up for the racism

July 15, 2005 Anne Linehan

Let’s see…a Bush Intercontinental baggage screener who moonlights as a rapper, and holds a fondness in his heart for terrorists, airplanes flying into buildings and women being raped, is fired from his job by the

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Down in the mud, blood, and beer with Rep. Poe

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Former local judge and current U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R) has joined the celebrity blogging crew at the Huffington Post. The post isn’t notably worse or better than most of the content at HP, although

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Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone" again

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various media outlets are reporting that today’s rain has shut down METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” for the second day in a row. Nothing is moving all that well anywhere in the city right now. At

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White & Edwards: We're tired of this MediaSource topic!

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that City Council delayed a vote on funding for Houston MediaSource today, and Mayor White is back to sounding perturbed: “You can’t stop people from complaining. And, you know, I’ve never

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What does Casey really think about Republicans?

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey writes the following today: The suit wasn’t heard by a jury but by Judge Hart. Under Travis County rules, when a lawsuit is declared to be “complex,”

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Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone"

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the heavy rains forced METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” to shut down earlier today: METRORail was also shut down between the University of Houston-Downtown and Wheeler stations because of high water. Traffic was

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Chron editorialists try to blame DA, judges for crime lab fiasco

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 general manager Steve Wasserman has belatedly weighed in on the HPD crime lab controversy: Appalling is the only word to describe the magnitude of the mismanagement under which the Houston Police Department crime lab

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Mayor, Chron editorialists now see merit in Wiseman's complaint

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

On July 3, the Chronicle ran a mean-spirited editorial criticizing Councilmember Wiseman’s stance on Houston MediaSource’s programming. The editorial advanced a bizarre theory of the First Amendment and prior restraint that seems pervasive at Houston

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City to repair damaged HPD radio towers

July 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Back in February, KHOU-11 uncovered a city-commissioned report that told the sorry tale of Houston’s emergency radio system. Today KHOU reports that Council has authorized funds to address one problem cited in the study —

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911 call center stumbled last night

July 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

KTRH-740 has a small blurb up about a problem at the Houston Emergency Center last night: Houston police had problems getting calls from the emergency center last night. A controller problem prevented police cars from

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