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Will Laurence Simon still talk to us little people?

December 20, 2004 Anne Linehan

Time Magazine has a list of ten things its writers have learned about blogs this year. This one is the best, in my opinion: Pets Have Blogs Too It started as an in-joke among feline-friendly

Mayor focuses on the really important local issues

December 20, 2004 Anne Linehan

Mayor White’s office issued a press release saying that the land acquisition for Houston’s own Central Park is complete: “This is a significant transaction that will leave a lasting legacy for future generations of Houstonians

Doesn't Robison have something in Austin to write about?

December 19, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chron’s Austin news bureau chief is acting as Mayor White’s PR man at the newspaper again this week, rambling once more in favor of cameras at traffic lights. The “argument” doesn’t go much beyond

DMN beats Chron on important education news

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Dallas Morning News has two stories of interest, relating to public schools. The first questions the dramatic improvements some traditionally low-rated schools have made in TAKS testing: A Dallas Morning News data analysis has

Baby steps for the D.C. bureau

December 19, 2004 Kevin Whited

Gebe Martinez has a decent column on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) in today’s Chronicle that is a step up from what usually comes from the Chron on DeLay, in that it’s not simply

New teachers are ready for winter break

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has a nice story on two first-year, Houston teachers and how they are adjusting to the demands of teaching: Now they understand why teachers covet their two-week winter break. Halfway through their first

Synchronizing downtown traffic signals

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

In today’s Chronicle story on Metro’s belabored traffic light-linking system there is this paragraph about Mayor White’s plan to synchronize Houston traffic lights: After his election a year ago, Mayor Bill White made it clear

Press discovers "olds"

December 19, 2004 Kevin Whited

In the most recent issue of the tired Houston Press, Richard Connelly discovers that Galveston has received acclaim for being so average demographically. At least one blog pointed out that Galveston news a month and

Abortion supporters promote study that faults parental notification laws

December 18, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle decided to give abortion supporters a big platform with this story in today’s paper: Two laws in Texas that limit teenagers’ ability to confidentially obtain reproductive health care cost $44 million a year

'Tis the season for major road construction – cont.

December 18, 2004 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13 has a list of the major freeway construction hotspots that will be causing problems this weekend: Both the northbound and the southbound exits from the Gulf Freeway to the eastbound South Loop will be