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KPRC: “Open season” for helicopter rides for mayoral aides

March 23, 2010 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2’S STEPHEN DEAN reports that various aides to Mayor Annise Parker have apparently been having quite a time riding around in HPD helicopters that are on patrol, occasionally posting about the adventures on Facebook. Mayor

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TW followup: Moonlighting attorney continues to draw check from County Attorney

March 22, 2010 Kevin Whited

REMEMBER THAT ATTORNEY who resigned from Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan’s office about the time that Texas Watchdog started asking questions about potential conflicts of interest? In a followup to the story, Texas Watchdog reports

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King, Kirkendall critique METRO; Chron breaks out pom-poms

March 22, 2010 Kevin Whited

OVER THE WEEKEND, PUBLIC POLICY PUNDIT BILL KING had a Chronicle op-ed noting the various myths espoused by our light-rail Houtopians and special interests. Tom Kirkendall followed with “The Bad METRO bet.” The editorial board

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At the bottom of Mayor Parker’s priority list

March 21, 2010 Anne Linehan

YOU HAVE ANY MONEY TO PAY FOR THAT DREAM? A Montrose resident doesn’t want a new H-E-B at the site of the former Wilshire Village apartments, so she has started a petition calling for a

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METRO has multiple “backbones”

March 20, 2010 Anne Linehan

AND WE THOUGHT THE DANGER TRAIN WAS METRO’S BACKBONE: Lamely attempting to counter the accusation that it has improved reduced bus service to focus resources on light rail, METRO now says, “Our bus fleet has

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The outgoing METRO board’s last act?

March 19, 2010 Kevin Whited

BEFORE MAYOR ANNISE PARKER’S METRO ANNOUNCEMENTS yesterday, the METRO board made one big decision: They voted in favor of paying CEO Frank Wilson’s legal expenses related to the allegations about an improper relationship with a

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Mayor announces METRO board appointees, releases transition committee reports

March 18, 2010 Kevin Whited

MAYOR ANNISE PARKER held a press conference today to release the findings of her METRO transition team and to announce her new appointees to the METRO board. This Texas Watchdog post is a one-stop shop

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King/Kirkendall/Reed: METRO economics

March 17, 2010 Kevin Whited

PUBLIC POLICY PUNDIT BILL KING posted another critique of METRO this week. Here’s the intro: There could hardly be a more fitting image for the close of the current Metro administration than the recent photographs

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Frank Wilson’s main METRO booster commissions “probe” of relationship

March 17, 2010 Kevin Whited

METRO put out a press release yesterday announcing that outgoing chairman David Wolff “has asked UHY Advisors… to conduct an independent investigation into allegations that public funds were misused at METRO because of an inappropriate

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KTRK: METRO crash victim suffers broken back

March 17, 2010 Kevin Whited

REMEMBER HOW America’s worst big-city daily reported that none of the people involved in the latest METRO bus/Danger Train crash was injured seriously? KTRK-13 reports today that one of those injured passengers has a fractured

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