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Good morning, Houston. We admit that we have a thing for interview shows, so we thought we'd take a second to note that NBC's Meet the Press, the king of Sunday morning TV news, made its television debut 60 years ago today. Meet the Press began life as a radio show in 1945 and moved to TV a couple of years later, and it hasn't stopped since. Now, MtP is the longest-running show on...

The Chronicle's Rad Sallee talked last week about something we've halfway wondered about for a while: the quotation on Michael Davis's "Water Screen," the thing at Main Street Square that's supposed to be a frame containing a waterfall on which images are projected (we say "supposed to be" because we've only seen it working a handful of times). Across the top of the frame is the inscription "As we build our city, let us think...

The Chron's Rad Sallee takes a look today at the question of right of way in the Richmond rail debate, focusing on comments from Metro Chairman David Wolff about some property owners along Richmond Avenue "stealing" the public right of way. What Wolff meant was that some people have put things — lawns, parking spaces, driveways — on the right of way, which usually isn't a problem until the land needs to be used for...

Rad Sallee's "Move It!" column in the Chron this week has a tip that will come in handy someday — uh, maybe. We're talking about a question Sallee got from a reader concerning whether you're supposed to pull out into an intersection when you're waiting to make a left turn. You know the situation: In heavy traffic, when you're waiting to make an unprotected left, you pull about halfway into the intersection and make the...

The more things change, the more they stay the same and then almost change again. In his "Move It!" column, the Chron's Rad Sallee looks at a failed 1983 plan for a southwestern rail transit line, nothing that the Metro of 20 years ago ruled out street-level light rail as a transit mode and Richmond Avenue as a route because of "severe traffic disruption on major cross streets and ... relatively low speed." It's theoretically...

Houstonist was interested in a section of Rad Sallee's "Move It!" column in the Chron yesterday that dealt with the new Spur 527 — specifically, the entrance ramp to the southbound spur from Milam between Alabama and Richmond. We were excited when the new lanes of the spur opened last week, but one of the first things we noticed was that the barrier wall on the side of the freeway is much higher than before,...

Those enterprising Chronicle reporters keep testing Houston's technology: First they monitored Main Street surveillance cameras, and now they're pretending to drive Metro light rail trains. The Chron's Rad Sallee recently had the chance to play with a light rail simulator, and he reports that driving the trains isn't as easy as you'd think, especially with a simulated car that keeps trying to cause trouble: Sometimes the car darts from behind a building and jumps...