Daily Archives: October 9, 2002

Budget fantasies exist at all levels

Posted on October 9, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

What do you do when you’re a budget director who’s just received a revenue estimate that will force painful cuts in already-reduced services? Well, if you’re the City of Houston’s Finance and Administration Department director, you increase the revenue estimate, … Continue reading →

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MEC Day Two Report

Posted on October 9, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

So far the strangest thing I’ve seen at MEC this year is at my hotel, the Hilton Anaheim. For reasons that are unclear to me, there is always at least one uniformed hotel staffer whose job it is to hold … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Feds to intervene in Burdine retrial

Posted on October 9, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

A federal judge will rule whether or not Calvin Burdine, the Texas death row inmate who was granted a new trial on appeal because his original lawyer slept through much of the case, gets to retain the attorney who won … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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