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Tow truck driver gets caught in $AFEclear's muddled details

January 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

I wonder if Mayor White and David Saperstein can admit that $AFEclear wasn’t the most well-thought-out idea in city history. The fact that some major changes have been proposed a couple of weeks after the

Banjo Jones recounts "gonzo" journalist days

January 18, 2005 Kevin Whited

Banjo Jones of the Brazosport News is scheduled to be on the NPR program “Day to Day” later. Banjo was interviewed yesterday about getting called down to 801 Texas Avenue a couple of years back,

Morning talk about SAFEclear

January 18, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740 just ran a report on the SAFEclear program today that included a blurb from “political scientist Bob Stein,” who unsurprisingly spoke in defense of the program. He was not identified as one of the

Metro stops paying smart card developer

January 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro has stopped paying the company who was supposed to deliver a working smart card fare system: “We have spent $4 million so far. We have stopped paying,” says Metro President & CEO Frank Wilson.

Lee Brown legacy continues to grow

January 18, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 reports that another staffer from the Lee Brown Administration is facing serious legal charges: Another member of the former Houston Mayor Lee Brown’s administration is in trouble with the law. The former head of

City Council to hear public's concerns about $AFEclear

January 18, 2005 Anne Linehan

Following up on Kevin Whited’s post this morning about City Council taking up $AFEclear revisions this week, KPRC-2 has this notice on its website: Houstonians will get the opportunity to voice their opinions about the

The Chronicle and Metro celebrate one year of light rail

January 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has had a successful year of promoting light rail, carefully following the rules laid out by the infamous pro-rail memo, which was accidentally posted on the Chronicle‘s website, and yesterday and today we

One-way Westheimer

January 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here’s a fun question and answer in today’s Move It! column: Q: Has anyone ever considered making Westheimer one way outbound from about Loop 610 to Texas 6 and Richmond one way inbound for the

Chron "blogger" comes unhinged, imagines death wishes

January 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

Our little blog seems to have brought out the worst in the Chronicle‘s designated “blogger,” Kyrie “MeMo” O’Connor today: My don Dwight reports to me that people want me dead. Well, that’s a bit of

Harris County's "honor system" voter registration

January 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

I’ve left comments on various blogs to the effect that I didn’t think the Talmadge Heflin election challenge was going anywhere, mainly because I don’t think Republican lawmakers want to be drawn into that fight,