Message-ID: <7298365.1075857106557.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:58:00 -0800 (PST) From: houstonchronicle-metro@chron-news.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: HoustonChronicle.com Metropolitan News for Dec 13, 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: HoustonChronicle-metro X-To: "alewis@ect.enron.com" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Andrew_Lewis_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: alewis.nsf Hello! The HoustonChronicle.com Metropolitan section for Wed. Dec. 13, 200= 0 =20 delivers news and information at the click of a button. If you ever wish to= =20 stop this email to alewis@ect.enron.com, just click this address: =20 http://www.chron.com/mail/nph-unity.mpl?id=3D-1642951136 =20 ? ? ? [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] HoustonChronicle.com Email Services: You can change your HoustonChronicle.com Email settings, or unsubscribe this list. =20 Business Columnists Comics Community Deaths Editorials Entertainment Games Health & Medicine Lifestyle/Features Lottery METRO/STATE =01=07 Education =01=07 This Week Nation Politics Space Chronicle Sports Technology Traffic Travel Weather World AP Breaking News E The People Forums Funplanet HomeArts News Audio News Specials People Pages This Week Archives Corrections=20 E-mail products Help Advertising Info Privacy policy Report a problem Sitemap To contact us: E-mail: hci@chron.com Office phone:=20 713-220-2700 Main Switchboard: 713-220-7171 Address:=20 Houston Chronicle 801 Texas Ave. Houston, Texas 77002 =20 [IMAGE]Links to other U.S. papers=20 =09?=09Wed. Dec. 13, 2000=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09TODAY'S METROPOLITAN STORIES =09=09from the pages of the Houston Chronicle =09=09 =09=09Marshall: Drug war is much like Prohibition=20 =09=09 =20 =09=09Highway official envisions merger of I-69, parkway=20 =09=09The head of the Texas Transportation Commission said Tuesday that Int= erstate=20 69, the proposed NAFTA Highway, is likely to pass north and west of Houston= =20 along a route also envisioned for the controversial Grand Parkway. =20 =09=09Children's agencies in tug of war over funds=20 =09=09Two agencies that help abused children are at odds over who should ge= t a=20 bigger cut of court-ordered fees paid by probationers. =20 =09=09Keller rallies against drunken driving=20 =09=09Facing jail time for drinking and driving himself, City Councilman Be= rt=20 Keller became a spokesman Tuesday for an anti-drunken-driving campaign.=20 Keller discussed not only the moral and public-safety implications but the= =20 inconvenience of getting caught. =20 =09=09Congressman backs agencies eyeing Hurwitz=20 =09=09While many people on Capitol Hill focused their attention Tuesday on = the=20 Supreme Court building awaiting a decision on the presidential election, a= =20 California congressman blasted his colleagues for "doing the bidding" of=20 Houston financier Charles Hurwitz. =20 =09=09Early start for schools called costly=20 =09=09Starting public schools before Aug. 21 is costing millions of dollars= in lost=20 tourism and migrant-labor revenues, according to a report released Tuesday = by=20 state Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander. =20 =09=09Longtime journalist Charlotte Phelan dies=20 =09=09Houston man charged with threatening Gore relative=20 =09=09Public comment sought on ambulance cutbacks=20 =09=09Fourth suspect caught in '97 killing=20 =09=09Stepson is first to back Smith's claim=20 =09=09Firefighters to take staffing issues to state Legislature=20 =09=09Man charged in shooting that left 1 dead, 1 wounded=20 =09=09Minority firms chosen to oversee work on basketball arena=20 =09=09News briefs=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09=09?