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Free ice cream, part 2

April 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s not Ben & Jerry’s; it’s Cold Stone Creamery — yea! There’s no word yet on whether or not there’s a Cold Stone Creamery-sponsored effigy rolling around Houston.

A public-service suggestion from the Houston-area coven

April 25, 2005 Kevin Whited

The blog has been a little quiet tonight, as Anne and I have been in a conclave with other members of the Houston-area coven. We’ve been trying to come up with a solution to METRO’s

Downtown entities study need for multi-purpose transit center

April 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

MSNBC is running a Houston Business Journal article on a study being conducted to determine if Houston needs an “intermodal transit center”: The Houston Downtown Management District is taking the lead in an inter-governmental agency

Hybrids in HOV lanes

April 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s a question and answer from today’s Move It! column: Q: Other states are allowing single-passenger hybrid vehicles in HOV lanes as a means to promote fuel/emission-friendly vehicles. Has Metro discussed this subject? Are there

The Coven's crystal ball is put into action

April 25, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD held a press conference today to make two announcements. First was to announce the executive principals who have been tapped to oversee the new feeder school patterns — a part of Superintendent Dr. Saavedra’s

Morrison withdraws from Congressional race

April 25, 2005 Kevin Whited

Democrat Richard Morrison, who last year challenged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R), has apparently announced his withdrawal from the 2006 race, citing a number of familial concerns. Here’s wishing Morrison well with those matters.

Big rig takes out METROrail (updated 04-26-2005)

April 25, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that a big rig has taken out the city’s world-class light-rail line: METRORail was ground to a halt Monday after an 18-wheeler hit overhead lines and knocked out power to the light-rail train

Casey mimics editorial board on political speech

April 24, 2005 Kevin Whited

We’ve noted before that the column of the Chronicle‘s Rick Casey is frequently used to flesh out and develop opinions that are taken by the Chronicle editorial board. Thus, it was hardly surprising on Friday

Chronicle's Hines deems blogHOUSTON part of a coven

April 24, 2005 Kevin Whited

We were delighted this morning to discover that Chronicle D.C. editorialist Cragg Hines is apparently a blogHOUSTON reader — albeit a disgruntled one. Hines seems not to have liked this post that called attention to

Food and drink roundup (04-24-2005 edition)

April 24, 2005 Callie Markantonis

We skipped the food and drink roundup last week, so this installment will include a few extra links. Alison Cook checked out Romero’s Las Brazas located on Highway 6 in far northwest Houston, and found