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Houston's tricky water billing method

March 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

I’d call this a creative way to increase water revenues: Let’s say your March bill says you used 3,000 gallons, but unknown to you, you actually used 3,800 gallons. The additional 800 gallons are rolled

Chron: high gas prices makes Metro appealing

March 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

Owen Courreges points out that in today’s Chronicle editorial on high gas prices, the editorial board takes an opportunity to promote Metro: The more the price of gasoline increases, the better Houston Metro’s $2 day

Hispanics support school vouchers

March 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

A large percentage of Hispanics in Harris County support school vouchers, according to a new poll: In a poll sponsored by a group working to pass a school voucher bill, almost 73 percent of Harris

New mainstream = secretive group that targets GOP?

March 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

Orrin Judd points us to an editorial posted to The Hill that excoriates Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an interest group that promotes greater transparency in politics but, as the editorial points

Filling city coffers

March 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s a letter to the editor in today’s Chronicle: A tax to fill coffers If the city of Houston is broke, then why not just say so and stop coming up with all these ways

HPD crime lab has new leadership to conduct probe

March 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle is reporting a development in the HPD crime lab probe: The former inspector general for the U.S. Justice Department will head the probe of the Houston Police Department’s embattled crime laboratory. The City

SAFEclear success?

March 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

This morning the Chronicle ran a story that said Mayor White was going to announce some SAFEclear statistics. Matt Bramanti at Lone Star Times has some thoughts on the story that was running earlier this

DMN: Rodeo gives Houston reporter a rough ride

March 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

As usual, Dallas Morning News Houston reporter Bruce Nichols is beating the Chronicle in their backyard, with a solid story on Wayne Dolcefino and his recent dustup with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (and

KTRK runs a story on Galveston's Social Security experiment

March 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

We recently wondered when the Chronicle would ever get around to reporting on the Galveston Social Security model. Well, now there’s an AP story on the subject that is making the rounds, and KTRK-13 is

A Houston protest in support of Terri Schiavo

March 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s too bad this protest didn’t take place in front of the Chronicle building: Disabled Houstonians held a protest in downtown Tuesday over the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, Local 2 reported. The severely