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Rock Talk, Vol. IX
- What? We have a new president? Jeez, doesn't anyone tell us anything?
- No, seriously, though: Houstonians marked Barack Obama's inauguration in a variety of ways yesterday (Houstonist celebrated by live-blogging)
- Houston Metro police officer Eliot Swainson is an inauguration hero, having saved a woman who fell onto the subway tracks in Washington on Tuesday morning
- At home, some jackass defaced a monument to ex-President George H.W. Bush with spray paint yesterday
- Former President George Bush, arriving in Midland to resume life as one of us: 'Laura and I may have left Texas, but Texas never left us'
- Speaking of which, with a bunch of Chicagoans now at the president's right hand, how is Texas going to cope with its lack of clout in Washington?
- The mother of "Baby Grace," accused of beating the 2-year-old to death in 2007, has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence but did not plead guilty to capital murder
- Former Enron chief Jeff Skilling's attorneys filed a new round of appeals seeking to overturn his Enron-related convictions Tuesday, two weeks after a federal appeals court upheld them
- Misty Weaver, the woman who set a 2007 fire that killed three in a North Loop office building, is headed to prison for 25 years
- City Controller Annise Parker is planning to announce her candidacy for mayor on Feb. 2
- Despite protests from students, alumni and faculty members, UH-Downtown officials are moving ahead with plans to rename UHD; UH's regents expect to make a final choice next month
- The numbers are in for local home sales last year, and they're not good: Single-family home sales fell of 16 percent locally in 2008
- Job numbers don't look all that promising, either: According to a new estimate, Houston could lose 43,800 jobs this year, a 1.7 percent decline
- Speaking of the economy, Rohm & Haas and Clear Channel are among the latest local employers to announce cutbacks
- OMG! Free makeup!
- The Chronicle's SciGuy explains what's going on at the State Board of Education, which is holding hearings this week that could influence whether evolution will be taught in Texas' public schools
- And, in news from Swamplot: The new, corporate vision of AstroWorld, and is this what Five Allen Center could look like?
- Today's weather: It doesn't get much better than 67 degrees and lots of sunshine. It can, however, be better than a clear night with a low of 47, but what can you do?
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