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	<description>Random rants from a civil servant in Houston, TX</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Director</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/743</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor just announced the new director of PW&#038;E. 
Moments ago the Mayor announced Mr. Krueger as the new Director of the Public Works and Engineering Department.  Confirmation by City Council is anticipated as early as late July.
Very Respectfully, 
Daniel R. Menendez, P.E.
Deputy Director
Engineering &#038; Construction Division 
Menendez was the interim director for the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Long, and Thanks for all the&#8230; Grief?  (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/739</link>
		<comments>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/739#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have yet to see it on any news outlet in Houston, but the word at the office is that Director of Public Works and Engineering Michael Marcotte has tendered his resignation to Mayor Parker.  The effective date is in two weeks.  According to multiple sources, the Mayor was not happy with unspecified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are these &#8220;Engineers&#8221; of whom you speak?</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/735</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve said any number of times (though mostly not here) that the drainage fee was coming back.  Sure enough, it has.. There were several things I thought were very interesting in today&#8217;s uncritical article. 

The assumption that some of the metro sales tax (aka. &#8220;general mobility&#8221;) funds would be used for drainage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Parker&#8217;s Message</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/731</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case anyone had the idea that a new mayor meant a change in &#8220;the Houston Way&#8221;, the following message was sent out via Citizen&#8217;s Net, an email list you can sign up for on the City&#8217;s website.  (old messages are also archived at the link).
Dear Citizens of Houston, 
Let me assure you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy of Idiots</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/729</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[accident]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You just can&#8217;t write this stuff as fiction.  Nobody would believe it.
[Metro VP] Skabowski said there was nothing glaring in the driver’s record to indicate she was a bad driver. Out of five accidents she’s had, Metro said she had only been at fault for one, though her record shows she has been disciplined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Sure it Was Unintentional (Not)</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/723</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[red light cameras]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[revenue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve all been told time and again, red light cameras are ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL about the safety, right?  Well, KHOU reports that citizen Byron Schrimbeck found an odd safety violation near one camera, located at FM 518 and I-45 South, and decided to document it:
 Texas law requires a light be yellow a certain length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rats, They Leave Sinking Ships&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/718</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shreddergate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on KHOU:
Shortly before KHOU broke the initial reports of document-shredding, Metro fired its general counsel, Pauline Higgins, as well as another staff attorney, Jakki Hansen. Another staff attorney voluntarily left the agency the same day KHOU’s first story aired.   Metro said no other employees from the legal department have left the agency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land Follies</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/713</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KHOU and blogHOUSTON have been talking about the city and county&#8217;s decrepit land holdings.  Maybe they should look more closely at the tool the city uses to acquire and disburse these properties:  LARA. 
From the minutes of the August 2009 meeting:

Didn&#8217;t we already kill that idea a few months before that?  
Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It would be nice&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2010/707</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To be able to stop referring to Google as the Chinese Oppressor&#8217;s Search Portal.
Freaking libtards took this long to figure out that the Chinese government was going to roll them for info?  Eeeeeeeediots.
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		<title>Annise Parker is a What?</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/705</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not lesbian. We knew that.
She&#8217;s a conservative?
Methinks the LA Times doesn&#8217;t know what the hell it&#8217;s talking about.  Someone who has silently financed Bill White&#8217;s spending agenda is not a conservative, fiscal, or otherwise.  Conservatives keep government spending restricted to the necessities, and do not waste time with worthless amenities such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch That Backsliding&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/703</link>
		<comments>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/703#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poli-blogging]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[teleology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steven den Beste backslides into political blogging once again, with a post at Hot Air.  If he isn&#8217;t careful, he&#8217;ll be at it full time again.   
Pity I can&#8217;t register for comments there, as I wanted to follow up with this:  &#8220;Is it worth noting that extreme cases of teleological belief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick, Rearrange the Deck Chairs!</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/698</link>
		<comments>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/698#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Pension Crises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As in, iceberg dead ahead! 
Lemer/Farb/Roberts assessment of City of Houston Finances (22 October 2009) 	
Bob Lemer has become known as a bit of a &#8220;disaster monger&#8221;, and has been about as welcome as a global warming skeptic at a Greenpeace convention.  Unfortunately, he&#8217;s also correct, and he&#8217;s not pulling his punches.

The City of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A proposal that&#8217;s all wet?</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/691</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since March, there have been rumblings inside the City of Houston&#8217;s PW&#038;E department that a large shortfall was pending in the Combined Utility System&#8217;s funding.  The public first learned about the city&#8217;s overall budget problems in Bill King&#8217;s oped, which we discussed here.   The CUS, which is supposed to be independent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, Anonymity..</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/689</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people wonder why a city employee would blog anonymously (on the rare occasions when I still do).  
This is why, and the snark didn&#8217;t even work for the county&#8230;.
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		<title>Vacar&#8217;s Other Shoe Drops</title>
		<link>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/687</link>
		<comments>http://houblog.com/wp/index.php/2009/687#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ubu Roi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t got the time to blog this properly, but head over to Texas Watchdog this morning for a look at what almost certainly prompted Vacar&#8217;s sudden &#8220;retirement.&#8221;
This is outstanding investigative reporting, the likes of which has been abandoned by the Houston Chronicle, which now relies on bloggers to cover the news while it keeps [...]]]></description>
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