Message-ID: <1841898.1075857104378.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:54:00 -0800 (PST) From: houstonchronicle-metro@chron-news.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: HoustonChronicle.com Metropolitan News for Dec 12, 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 Tue. Dec. 12, 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?=09Tue. Dec. 12, 2000=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09TODAY'S METROPOLITAN STORIES =09=09from the pages of the Houston Chronicle =09=09 =09=09Hale: Still flying high, after all the years=20 =09=09 =20 =09=09Area prepares for Arctic weather=20 =09=09The Arctic cold front playing havoc through the Midwest and North Tex= as=20 arrived in the Houston area overnight, bringing with it the year's coldest= =20 weather and warnings of a treacherous freezing rain or sleet today. =20 =09=09Tips on traffic safety=20 =09=09New head of HCCS puts a lid on report=20 =09=09Bruce Leslie, who was appointed interim chancellor of the Houston Com= munity=20 College System in October, has quickly put his stamp on one of the nation's= =20 largest community college systems. =20 =09=09City lobby team remains up in air=20 =09=09Disgusted by the Brown administration's slowness in hiring a legislat= ive=20 lobbying team this year, Houston City Councilman Orlando Sanchez took the= =20 unusual step Monday of refusing to discuss the matter further in the=20 committee that he heads. =20 =09=09Lee delays conversion of tax liens to housing=20 =09=09Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee, citing concerns about=20 gentrification of two inner-city neighborhoods, is holding up a long-awaite= d=20 program intended to turn tax-delinquent property into affordable housing. = =20 =09=09Petition try to trim tax falls short=20 =09=09A petition effort has fallen 2,563 signatures short of the number nee= ded to=20 force an election on rolling back a 76 percent tax-rate increase by the=20 Montgomery County Hospital District. =20 =09=09Groups unite to try to reduce robberies=20 =09=09Prompted by the murders of 11 convenience-store clerks during the pas= t year,=20 the city of Houston and the South Asian Chamber of Commerce have developed = a=20 store safety kit to help businesses prevent or safely deal with robberies.= =20 =09=09Lawmakers examine education rankings=20 =09=09The state must better prepare more students for college if it wants t= o solve=20 problems highlighted in a national higher-education report card, a group of= =20 lawmakers were told Monday. =20 =09=09Houston woman survives Va. trestle tragedy=20 =09=09Slave monument OK'd by Waller County panel=20 =09=09McDonald's robber gets 8 years after guilty pleas=20 =09=09HMO bailouts leave coverage gap for many=20 =09=09Marshall son testifies of inheritance promise=20 =09=09Channelview man pleads guilty in murder case=20 =09=09Banking agencies accused of targeting financier for trees=20 =09=09Missing fisherman? No, just a stolen boat=20 =09=09Area briefs=20 =09=09State briefs=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09=09?