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HPD wants to use unpaid, reserve officers to fill the gaps

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s an eye-opening story in the Chronicle: Reserve officers — part-timers who work without pay but have full arrest powers — could return to the ranks at the Houston Police Department under a plan senior

Houston gets world class DMN treatment

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Pegasus crew calls our attention to the weekend travel section of the Dallas Morning News, which featured a story on our own light rail train, a story on Houston museums and their architects, and

Is KTRK spinning news ratings?

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various sources have noted the KHOU-11 news team’s recent ratings victories. Recently, a reader asked the Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman why KTRK-13 keeps saying it’s still tops: Q: About two weeks ago I read a piece

Feeling our way through the end of life

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

In what has turned out to be an increasingly popular post in light of recent events, we criticized a recent Houston Chronicle editorial for what seemed like a callously indifferent regard for innocent (albeit impaired)

Metro has an executive shake-up

March 21, 2005 Anne Linehan

A new face has joined Metro’s leadership: David Feeley joined Metro’s executive staff March 9. The 62-year-old, who recently returned from working in Iraq and was planning to sail across the Atlantic Ocean before being

Jackson-Lee always finds the press

March 21, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740 news just ran a blurb that included comments from Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) that suggested that she supported the Terri Schiavo legislation passed by the House early this morning. That’s all well and good,

Hello? Anyone home at Metro?

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Laurence Simon had a little problem trying to call the hotline Metro lists on its signs: Folks, I’ve never talked to a live human being on that number. Ever. I’ve waited for over 30 minutes

Carnival of the Cats is one year old!

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

We have covered the Carnival of the Cats before, when the New York Times and Time Magazine reported on it. The Carnival just happens to be organized by local blogger Laurence Simon. Well, today is

Correcting some errors in Jason Spencer's story

March 20, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday I was dismissive of a Jason Spencer story about the lower TAKS test scores at some HISD schools. What Spencer led the reader to believe is that schools with lower scores are the same

KPFT: The sound of fringe-left purity

March 20, 2005 Kevin Whited

Many of us who are Americana/Texas country music fans remember well KPFT-90.1’s heyday in the late 1990s, when its “Sound of Texas” format made the station a big player on the Texas music scene, even