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Port of Houston competes with California for Asian trade

November 8, 2004 Kevin Whited

Bill Hensel pens an article for the Chronicle business section on our busy Port of Houston: When Wal-Mart’s enormous distribution center in Chambers County opens next year, it will trigger a substantial increase in shipments

Zero tolerance nightmare

November 8, 2004 Anne Linehan

In Baytown there is a zero tolerance battle brewing over the expulsion of a student for having a fishing knife in his truck: More than a dozen Robert E. Lee High School students, in the

The Dallas Morning News checks in on Hubert Vo

November 8, 2004 Kevin Whited

Bruce Nichols of the Dallas Morning News has penned an interesting article on Hubert Vo. Here’s a teaser: The regulars at Sally Jo’s Old Houston Bar-Be-Que weren’t surprised to see a Vietnamese-American bidding to upset

Metro and Lucas Wall – on the forefront of transportation solutions

November 7, 2004 Anne Linehan

Surely it is unintended humor, but Lucas Wall’s story in today’s Chronicle is pretty funny. You see, Metro has decided to look into starting an “express” bus route from downtown to Bush Intercontinental and Lucas

Chron eye for the death row killer guy – cont'd

November 7, 2004 Kevin Whited

It’s time for another installment of Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy. For a while now, we’ve been noticing that the anti-death-penalty Chronicle has a tendency sympathetically to cover death row killers about

Metro spreads good cheer

November 7, 2004 Anne Linehan

Please forgive one more Metro-related post, but these letters to the editor, in today’s Chronicle, were too good to pass up: The Metropolitan Transit Authority continues to shoot itself in the foot! Do any of

The "hideout" returns to Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

November 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports that the secondary music venue “The Hideout” will return to next year’s rodeo: The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is bringing back an old favorite for music fans this year. The Hideout, which

New park will eat up parking spaces

November 6, 2004 Anne Linehan

Today’s Chronicle has a story about Houston’s planned Central Park and a potential problem with parking around the George R. Brown Convention Center: When the city of Houston turns 13 acres of downtown land into

Apply Casey's reasoning to his own newspaper

November 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

The spirit of conciliation that follows national elections has surely spread to blogHOUSTON. How else to explain that we’ve found an area of agreement with noxious Chron metro/state columnist Rick Casey? But we mostly agree

Chron editors fail Political Science 101

November 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

As we frequently point out, Chronicle staff editorials are frequently childish and simplistic (and sometimes just plain mean). Those first two characteristics were never more evident than in Friday’s editorial criticizing the electoral college. The