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Barack Obama and Me
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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Mescaline on the Mexican Border
Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Little Bitty Burger Barn
"It's okay to be little bitty in the big city" is an apt slogan for this new burger joint, where sliders rule
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Ghost Town CFS: Carriage House Cafe
Step back in time — to a spooky old carriage barn with a monster chicken-fried steak
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Barack Obama and Me (254)
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita (21)
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Are You Hot Enough for Citizen Lounge? (7)
All This Useless Beauty
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HoustonHipHop.com Relaunch Party (5)
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Save Lobo: A Siberian Husky Mix is Sentenced to Die (28)
Why? Because he's big and intimidating and because one family complained about him over and over again
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Barack Obama and Me
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
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Mescaline on the Mexican Border
Texas is the only state in the country where peyote is sold legally. Really.
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A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita
For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.
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Live-Action Role-Players Get Boffed in Amtgard
Amid flailing swords and flying shields, these modern-day knights fight on
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Houston St. Patrick's Day Guide
Our guide to going green for St. Paddy's
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Cover Story: The Judy’s Come Back
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Spring Training: Time to Give Up the Woody Williams Experiment
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Jameson’s Rarest Vintage Reserve at $250 a Bottle
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Recent Articles By Richard Connelly
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Harris County librarians and UT Longhorn football players' arrests
Send in the librarians!!
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Infernal Bridegroom Productions shuts down amid financial questions; Galveston development
Sudden death for a local favorite
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Junior High Kid Goes Big-Time, Zero Tolerance
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Zero tolerance gone awry in the Katy Independent School District
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National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
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Published: January 11, 2007We remember the Jon Lindsay who was chased out of the county judge's office amidst allegations of getting a $100,000 cash bribe to build a county road on some remote property. Sure, the statute of limitations ran out before the case -- or the suit to force Lindsay to resign because of it -- could be heard, but Jon could always afford the best lawyers.
We remember the Jon Lindsay who then got his cronies at the Port of Houston to hire him for $120,000 a year as a consultant.
We remember the Lindsay who once said of his controversies and allegations, "Ninety percent of that stuff was totally false. Five percent of it, I did show poor judgment." (The other five percent he left nicely uncategorized.)
That's the Jon Lindsay we like to remember. But that's not the one who showed up in the Chron.
"That story had the thickness of Saran Wrap," said an anonymity-preferring lawyer who was deeply involved in the 1990s hoopla. "I was disappointed it had the 1984 quality of simply just refusing to remember what happened."
Come on, now: We wouldn't want any unpleasantness during the holiday season.
Tales from the BBB
There are a million sad stories in the files of the Houston chapter of the Better Business Bureau. Well, maybe not a million, but there are quite a few. And here is one of them: Promark Research Corporation on FM 1960, a company that makes unwanted cold telephone calls but says it is not a telemarketer, dammit. Click Here for the details.
