Showing posts with label Annise Parker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annise Parker. Show all posts
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Who's really to blame for network fiasco?

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So now Houston mayor Annise Parker has decided to get herself in the middle of the fray between the Astros and Rockets' regional sports ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

An alternative to jailing the homeless

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Once again kudos are due to a target of my barbs. This time it's Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston, who is presiding over the construc...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Have you seen this meter?

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You gotta hand it to Mayor Annise Parker. She, and her colleagues on City Council, have come up with a brilliant way to raise additional rev...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The mayor's plan to rid downtown of the homeless

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Well, if you can't figure out a way to resolve the homeless issue in Houston, the least you can do, Mayor Parker, is get those folks out...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mayor wants to build new crime lab

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Harris County already has a crime lab. It's called the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences . It was created out of the old medi...
Monday, February 13, 2012

City to evict occupiers

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This is how the world ends This is how the world ends This is how the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.   " The Hollow ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Local pols show true colors ordering police to raid campsites

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Earlier this month downtown Oakland resembled a Third World country in the midst of armed rebellion as police in riot gear attacked proteste...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Update: Houston, occupied

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Dear Media and Others;   The peaceful OccupyHouston demonstrators present at Eleanor Tinsley Park have just been informed by the Houston ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

A more efficient way to ration water use

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To combat the lack of rainfall in Houston, Mayor Annise Parker has decided that it's the right time to ration water use. As of last week...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Flipping-flopping the night away

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Houston Mayor Annise Parker flipping and flopping about what to do with the red light cameras.   First she cut them off. Then, faced with...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Mayor Parker to voters: "Screw you!"

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In response to residents who voted to get rid of red light cameras, Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced that the cameras will being genera...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Damn the public, full steam ahead!

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So much for the will of the voters. Mayor Annise Parker has announced that the red light cameras are being turned back on . Of course the ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Odds and ends

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Perry signs bill compensating Anthony Graves Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill on Tuesday authorizing the state to pay Anthony Graves $1.4 m...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

The return of the red light camera?

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On Friday, US District Judge Lynn Hughes ruled that last November's ballot initiative to repeal Houston's red light camera ordinance...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Confronting police brutality

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Tuesday was the day to speak out against police brutality at the weekly meeting of the Houston city council. As I was scheduled to appear i...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The more things change, the more they stay the same

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I sat on a panel at a community meeting on police brutality on Tuesday night and listened as dozens of folks spoke of incidents in which the...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Not so fast with that camera removal, boys

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Oh, and you only thought the pesky little matter of the red light cameras in Houston was done with the city's decision to take them dow...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Taking the cameras down

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City Hall has decided to listen to the voters. At 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 15, 2010, the red light cameras will come down in Houston....
Friday, November 5, 2010

The voters have spoken, but will the city listen?

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Y'all just thought that voting against red light cameras in Houston would get rid of them, didn't you? Nevermind that 53% of the vot...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Collapsing under its own weight

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The City of Houston Municipal Courts handled 1.2 million cases in 2009. Of those 1.2 million cases, defendants requested jury trials in 415,...