Daily Archives: October 5, 2006

Downtown’s big blackout

Sometimes as I approach the I-45 South exit from I-10 during my morning commute, I run into a traffic jam that’s caused by a long backup in the exit lane. Depending on where I am on I-10 and how bad … Continue reading Continue reading

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New smoking ban getting set to go

The proposed new anti-smoking regulations for Houston are getting closer to reality. One thing to note is that several previously-expressed concerns appear to be addressed in the new ordinance. Houston’s existing ordinance prohibits smoking in restaurants, but allows it in … Continue reading Continue reading

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New DMN poll

The Dallas Morning News has an old-fashioned telephone poll of the Governor’s race (for which you can see some not-terribly-informative crosstabs here in PDF form), and the results are quite similar to those newfangled robocall polls. With just over a … Continue reading Continue reading

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Big Time for Shelley

As promised, Shelley Sekula Gibbs was the beneficiary of a Big Time Dick Cheney fundraiser. Cheney spoke at the Hyatt Houston Downtown to about 200 Sekula-Gibbs supporters who paid $500 or more each for a sandwich, chips and a 15-minute … Continue reading Continue reading

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Making money the Joe Crabb way

In case you missed Rick Casey’s column from yesterday. State Rep. Joe Crabb, like most of his GOP colleagues, has voted for legislation to limit lawsuit abuse. But when it came to his own law practice, it took the state … Continue reading Continue reading

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Turn that thing off!

I agree 100% with Dwight. Websites that play music or other sounds when you start them whether you want them to or not are crimes against nature, and my instant reaction is to kill whatever it is that’s making the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Reforming probation

Grits got the ball rolling on a discussion about real criminal justice reform. A blog called The Wretched of the Earth, written by a public defender, picked it up and ran with it with these two posts about probation reform. … Continue reading Continue reading

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