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We love getting the dirt on City Hall by reading the Chronicle's NewsWatch: City Hall blog. But it's usually not quite as titillating as something Matt Stiles put up yesterday: the story of a pink sex toy found in a men's room at the City Hall Annex. Stiles found out about the discovery when he got to his office yesterday: a police officer, a janitor and two security guards were huddled around a trash can...

Over at the Chronicle's City Hall blog, Mike Snyder notes that veteran television newswoman Linda Ellerbee has taken a stand in the controversy over proposed special protections for the Old Sixth Ward. Ellerbee grew up in Houston and is planning to move back here from New York City; she's scouting out houses in the Sixth Ward and said she's been keeping up with discussions about protecting the neighborhood. Among the proposals from Mayor Bill White...

A few months after the city approved a contract for fancy WiFi-connected parking meters downtown, the first of the new meters have gone online — and though there are still some kinks to work out, things seem to be going fairly smoothly. You might have seen the new meters along Travis Street or near the City Hall Annex — they're tall, grayish and topped by solar panels. The big deal with the meters isn't how they look, though; it's that they accept bills and credit cards in addition to coins, and eventually, you'll even be able to pay using your cell phone. But not quite yet.

Remember City Councilwoman Anne Clutterbuck's idea about running the University light rail line along the north side of the Southwest Freeway between Mandell or Dunlavy and Edloe? The one that would reportedly require the demolition of between 50 and 75 homes and part of Chew Park? Yeah, well, Clutterbuck says she's sorry for any confusion, but she didn't really mean she wanted to send the rail line through any neighborhoods — what she would like...

The latest twist in the mayor pro tem saga: The discovery of a dented filing cabinet in City Hall that may or may not have been jimmied open to retrieve ... well, we're not sure what. The black, 5-foot cabinet was kept in an unlocked City Hall break room adjacent to the pro tem office, where four workers reportedly helped themselves to a couple hundred thousand dollars in unauthorized payraises and bonuses. The damage to the file drawer — a "visible dent just above a drawer handle," according to the Chronicle — was discovered when an employee asked the City Hall Annex building manager to unlock the cabinet to get documents that had been requested under the Texas Public Information Act.