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For Houstonist, the municipal courthouse at 1400 Lubbock is pretty close to our vision of hell. But does it have to be? No, court officials say — and the way to improve things could be as easy as leaving arraignment dates off tickets for parking, traffic and other minor violations. Seriously.

There's something we've been wondering ever since we heard about Houston's coming municipal Wi-Fi network, and the Chronicle's Alexis Grant has finally asked the question for us: How well is the network going to work? The answer: not too badly, but don't get your hopes up — it'll be a step up from dial-up, but not nearly as fast as home cable Internet service.

The city has run into quite a few problems implementing a paperless system at the municipal courthouse, including big delays when the system went online in early April. And now we have news of another problem that could be costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars: Thanks to the scanning process required to make things paperless, police have had to release nearly 700 suspects because their arrest warrant paperwork couldn't be found. Ah, progress.

Last night Mayor White, Richard Lewis (the city's Chief Information Officer... not that other guy) and the High Tech Texan hosted a conference call for bloggers about the city's plan for a city-wide 802.11g wireless network. A conference call with bloggers? It isn't a bad idea, considering the technology, though some have noted the call's shortcomings. We just want to point out that Laurence Simon didn't have the hairballs to admit he was from isfullofcrap.com,...

Houston seems to be moving forward in its plan to build a citywide wi-fi network: Today, the Chronicle reports the city may pick a vendor for the first phase of the network by the end of the year. The initial coverage area would include downtown, enabling the planned wireless parking meters to work. Covering the whole city could take about two years, officials said.