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Former police chief Troy Finner
CBS 11 KHOU-TV Houston discussed the suspended cases scandal as well. Plus one of their investigative reporters exposed Finner's lies. -
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NBC 2 KPRC-TV Houston Discussion Thread
Looks great. Will any of the other TV stations counter NBC 2 by doing something similar ?- nbc 2 news
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Shepherd Dr. And Durham Dr. Reconstruction
I'm not convinced by the conspiracies. I think it's a simple combination of putting politics over governance. I think he wants to appear effective and equitably responsive to voters' wants. Voters want less congestion. He can't easily build a bunch of new highways, but he can stop projects that he can claim will worsen congestion. He is not wrong that the majority of Houston's voters are not actively in favor of the Shepherd/Durham project, and a poll would probably tell you that the majority disfavors reductions in car lanes (and probably any construction project along their commute, for that matter). So he can sell his bike/ped antipathy as working to relieve congestion. (It just happens to be extremely stupid in this instance, since congestion will be worse with a 4-3 merge than it would have been with three lanes the whole way.) He also probably can't deliver a lot of net-positive equitability for underserved neighborhoods in the city. He may even actually realize that Houston proper is probably underpopulated by about ten million if equitable access to proper urban amenities is the goal. But he can stop projects that pump tens or hundreds of millions of dollars into gentrified neighborhoods while ostensibly doing nothing for underserved neighborhoods, and he can sell that as an equity-oriented approach. Over the last ten and especially five years, the internet has done an impressive job of spreading the urbanist gospel around the country and even around Houston. There are a lot of people out here who want to see Houston reinvent itself as a livably urban place. But unfortunately, it's still a fairly small minority of Houstonians who are invested in that objective, especially to the point of actively wanting to, say, sacrifice their own car speed for the sake of walkability in the neighborhoods they traverse at rush hour. It's frustrating to me, because to my mind, this is a pretty big part of the reason why government leadership exists in the first place. If we deferred to general preference on every issue, we'd have no speed limits, no infrastructure maintenance, no other customers at our favorite businesses, no school, and no public services of any kind, actually, because we'd have no taxes. Part of the job of elected leadership - arguably the most important part - is to be right when the general public is wrong. -
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What happened to KQBT 93.7 The Beat in HD?
My cousin said something similar happened to Sports Radio 610 KILT-AM Houston.
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