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Local media drops ball on Mission Bend home invasion

February 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sadly, there’s been another violent criminal incident in the Mission Bend area, this time a home invasion that involved the shooting of a pastor and his wife. Inexplicably, local media outlets continue to shy away

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Conroe doesn't want Houston's rail traffic

February 3, 2005 Anne Linehan

Apparently, there is plan afoot to reroute Houston’s commercial rail traffic through Conroe: A plan being designed to route commercial train traffic around the city of Houston to Montgomery County is meeting some local resistance.

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The Woodlands focuses on its trees

February 3, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s a Chronicle story on a new effort The Woodlands is undertaking to save its wonderful trees: Trees are the top reason residents cite for living in The Woodlands, and now the community is taking

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LULAC upset with local talker's "tone"

February 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Cynthia Cisneros reports some local groups are not happy with KTRH-740 talk radio host Chris Baker: A controversial Houston talk show host is at the center of his own controversy. Several Houston civil rights

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The Chron should post audio/video of Abizaid interview

February 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

We previously noted that only two of the state’s newspapers chose to run house editorials on Monday on the weekend elections in Iraq. The Chronicle, we reported, covered other topics that day. Today, Wednesday, the

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$AFEclear math = big bucks for city

February 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

In today’s Chronicle story about current $AFEclear events, reporter Ron Nissimov includes this: Councilman Michael Berry, another strong supporter of Safe Clear, helped develop the ordinance last year and predicted the council would approve amendments

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Northline Mall may become open-air shopping center (and MetroRail can help)

February 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

Nancy Sarnoff writes in today’s Chronicle, that the Northline Mall might be demolished to make way for a new open-air mall: A new ownership group has plans to demolish the struggling mall to make way

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Who broke the $AFEclear background check story?

February 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday KSEV-700 afternoon host Dan Patrick came out against $AFEclear, because of the news that criminal background checks had not been done on $AFEclear tow truck drivers, and when the checks were finally done, it

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City Council has revised $AFEclear

February 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

City Council has made a $AFEclear decision: Houston’s City Council decided today to give motorists with flat tires and empty gas tanks a break: Instead of paying $75 for mandatory tows, drivers stranded on the

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That's what we need — another revenue generating idea

February 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

As if $AFEclear and red light cameras aren’t enough, KPRC-2 reports on yet another revenue-generating idea floating around City Hall: The city is considering installing radar cameras on Houston city streets to catch speeding drivers.

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