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Houston is #1 in rental car sticker shock

March 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

The disparity between the base rate for a rental car and the final bill is higher at Bush Intercontinental than at any other airport: Rental car customers experience more severe sticker shock at Bush Intercontinental

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MetroRail's service disruption inconvenienced Lucas Wall

March 28, 2005 Anne Linehan

Poor Lucas Wall was inconvenienced by Metro. It’s really not wise to do that to the Chronicle‘s transportation guy, because then he doesn’t write a happy column:

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Chron editorialists reject the Constitutional Option

March 28, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle editorialists try to pull a fast one in today’s ranting against what the Powerline crew has dubbed The Constitutional Option: Frustrated that Democratic senators have used extended debate to reject seven of Bush’s

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A perplexing correction from the Chron

March 28, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran a confusing correction today: An article on page A12 of Sunday’s Chronicle inaccurately described President Bush’s explanation of Mexican Independence Day. In a television interview, the president said the day is celebrated

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When will the Chron version be posted?

March 27, 2005 Kevin Whited

The LA Times runs a piece today on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R), and his family’s decision in 1988 to refrain from extraordinary measures to keep his terminal father artificially alive. The point of

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Chief Hurtt: New Chron "good guy"

March 27, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today, the Chronicle runs a puff piece by Joe Stinebaker on police chief Harold Hurtt, a local “exorcist with a badge” (but until recently, no uniform). The article celebrates council’s decision to spend $5 million

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Chron: Resurrection should comfort those upset by forced starvation

March 27, 2005 Anne Linehan

Just when I thought the Chronicle editorial board could no longer shock me with their offensiveness, here comes today’s Easter editorial: Schiavo’s case is a tragedy that has sparked roiling debate and dueling accusations of

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Ask President Bush and God to fix MetroRail's crash problem

March 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s quite a column from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader: And then there’s Houston. A year and a half ago, Houston put in the first segment of a projected light rail system, 7.5 miles of it.

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Another poll story to dismiss — if we can even figure it out

March 26, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has a poorly edited Knight Ridder Tribune News service story about President Bush’s latest poll numbers. It’s poorly edited because there are two polls mentioned — Gallup and CBS News — but no

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Ratcliffe mischaracterizes House republicans on term limits

March 26, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s R.G. Ratcliffe includes this line in the latest speculation about whether Kay Bailey Hutchison will run for governor of Texas: Term limits were a popular Republican campaign issue in 1994, serving as a

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