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Dermatologist-councilwoman won't give up on smoking ban

October 25, 2004 Kevin Whited

Dermatologist-councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs just won’t give up on her grand plans to ban smoking in Houston. Today, she chooses to ignore any scientific evidence she might deploy for her cause in favor of pure emotionalism:

A record-setting transit authority

October 25, 2004 Kevin Whited

Callie Markantonis previously noted that Metro posted a press release on its website on October 19 praising itself for breaking its safety record. She snarkily wondered if Lucas Wall might explain the “safety record” to

Does anybody edit the thing?

October 25, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle recently ran a story by Rhea Davis and Rosanna Ruiz on a spate of vandalism that has seen cell phone and radio towers in northern Harris and southern Montgomery counties damaged significantly in

PJ's and politics

October 25, 2004 Callie Markantonis

C-SPAN’s BookTV.org links to a discussion on politics between John O’Neill, author of Unfit for Command, and Glenn Smith, author of Unfit Commander. The broadcast was recorded at Houston’s own PJ’s Sports bar, home of

The Dallas Morning News on the crime lab controversy

October 25, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Dallas Morning News ran a column by Bruce Nichols last Friday on the ongoing controversy over Houston’s disgraced police crime lab. The story is noteworthy because it actually treats the controversy in a balanced

Boosting the coupon coverage for those to our southeast

October 25, 2004 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that The Galveston County Daily News and The Texas City Sun will merge into one newspaper, effective November 7. People depending on the two newspapers for news will surely be delighted to hear

Phoenix, Dallas, and Decatur have world class health inspection priorities

October 24, 2004 Callie Markantonis

Eileen Faxas of 11 News Defenders continues to pound the issue of accessible online food inspections, this time managing to get the mayor to sit down and answer some questions: So after talking with many

Lech Walesa to speak in Houston on Monday

October 24, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Houston World Affairs Council will be sponsoring a talk by Poland’s Lech Walesa on Monday. The event will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Westin Oaks Hotel Consort Ballroom in the

Houston's Chinatown shifts

October 24, 2004 Kevin Whited

Nancy Sarnoff pens an interesting article on southwest Houston’s Chinatown area. The area she describes is absolutely bustling. When I first moved to Houston (in 1995), much of the area she describes was blighted and

Covering the "olds" important to the Lampson campaign

October 24, 2004 Kevin Whited

With the election approaching, the Chronicle today follows up on a story that didn’t especially have legs two weeks ago when Kristen Mack wrote about it (coincidentally the same day as the Houston Press story