Subject: Sheila Jackson Lee

• Lights, Camera, Sheila!

  March 19, 2007

• Team Player

  July 11, 2007

• Let Me Clear the Fleming From My Throat

  September 21, 2007

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Ike-Response Hearings Begin; FEMA Doesn't Bother To Show Up

  November 10, 2008

• Obama Inauguration Tickets -- Hotter Than Hannah Montana and The Jonas Brothers Combined

  November 12, 2008

• Slideshow: HEB Thanksgiving Day Parade in Downtown Houston

  Low-riders, art cars, SpongeBob, Santa Claus, D-list celebs, marching bands, stick-fighting Sikhs and plump Shriners in souped-up go-carts -- where else could it be but the HEB Thanksgiving Day Parade? And although we lack quality photographic proof -- amazingly, even Sheila Jackson Lee was there. Seriously!

  November 28, 2008

• Sheila Keeps Quiet

  November 24, 1994

• Astros Bring The Game To Acres Homes

  Major League Baseball's Darrell MillerMajor League Baseball, the Astros, and Mayor Bill White unveiled plans today for the Houston Astros MLB Urban Youth Academy, which will be built on the north side of town in the Acres Homes community on Sylvester Turner Park.The academy will include a show field with room for around 2,300 fans, two Little League fields, batting cages, and 1,500 square feet of facilities. It'll be the third of its kind, the first being in Compton, CA; the academy aims to lowe

  January 23, 2009

• After him, the deluge

  December 28, 1995

• The Web Conducts Yet Another Calm, Reasonable Discussion

  The Houston Chronicle reported today that the burgeoning problem of jail overcrowding may be dealt with by releasing low-risk offenders. They are also, as we mentioned today, eventually creating a mental-health court that will aim to treat the ill instead of simply repeatedly sending them to jail.The new Harris County Jail opened, of course, because the old one was getting too clogged up with low-risk offenders. That's what happens when every judge is scared to death of being accused of bein

  January 26, 2009

• The Insider

  January 25, 1996

• The Insider

  March 14, 1996

• Letters

  June 13, 1996

• The Insider

  October 10, 1996

• The Insider

  January 16, 1997

• What's Driving Miss Shelia?

  February 20, 1997

• Letters

  March 13, 1997

• Letters

  March 20, 1997

• Letters

  May 1, 1997

• The Insider

  June 5, 1997

• The Insider

  July 31, 1997

• The Insider

  August 28, 1997

• Letters

  August 28, 1997

• The Insider

  December 11, 1997

• The Insider

  December 25, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• New President, Same Sheila Jackson Lee

  Photos by Steve OlafsonWe know this is getting old. For years now we've tuned in to the annual State of the Union address to make sure that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tx, of the Fightin' 18th Congressional District in Houston, gets up next to the President, be he Democrat or Republican.We depend on this. When it stops happenin', we're fairly sure it's time to gather up all the firearms, round up all the ammo, batteries, gold bullion and freeze-dried food, and descend into the underground

  February 25, 2009

• Insider

  May 7, 1998

• The Insider

  May 14, 1998

• Letters

  June 4, 1998

• Insider

  July 9, 1998

• KHOU Gets Its Man At The Texas Air National Guard

  Those fun-loving guys at the Texas Air National Guard -- the people who brought you George W. Bush's sterling military career -- have a new commanding general, thanks to KHOU.Channel 11 had a damning story about sexual discrimination in TANG -- a series of female officers stepped up and said on the record that they had bee ndiscriminated against because of gender, given bad assignments, denied promotions. They eventually left the service.An investigation showed three of the complaints had "absol

  March 2, 2009

• The More Things Change

  October 29, 1998

• Down For The Count

  January 14, 1999

• The Rebirth Of A Cemetery

  Photo by Olivia Flores AlvarezOlivewood Cemetery, established just after the end of the Civil War, is home to Houston's first freemen. Among the buried are a 100-plus-year-old woman who came to America on a slave ship in the late 1770's but lived long enough to see the end of slavery, the man who started a music program for black public schools, and a reverend who was shot to death by a man the newspaper reports referred to as "above average intelligence for his race."But Olivewood has been si

  April 3, 2009

• Working the Rails, Part Two

  July 8, 1999

• MLK Grande Parade

  January 15, 2009

• Peace -- For Now

  A caravan to Cuba isn't hassled. Yet.

  July 15, 2004

• The MLK Day Parade

  Two factions turn MLK Day into a competition

  January 17, 2008

• No-Balls Buzz

  Morning-radio wackiness has its limits

  March 2, 2006

• Sexual Dealing

  A blood-curdling tale of sex slavery falls apart

  April 15, 2004

• Talky? You Bet!

  Sheila Jackson Lee's verbosity leads to a jackpot

  February 12, 2004

• Letters

  December 11, 2003

• Jumped or Was Pushed?

  The election supervisor's departure makes Democrats nervous

  June 13, 2002

• We're Enron-Free!

  Guaranteed: No mention of that story everyone's obsessed with

  February 14, 2002

• Political Splashes and Splats

  The triumph of Bob and Sheila; the tragicomedy of Craig and Lloyd

  May 6, 1999

• Sheila Jackson Lee Honors Michael Jackson, At Incredible Length

  Via The Hill's blog, we've learned of our own Sheila Jackson Lee's epic attempt to immortalize Michael Jackson (who is being celebrated as we speak; check out the twittering/liveblogging at the music blog of our sister paper LA Weekly).Amazingly, Lee's bill declaring the House of Representatives "recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises" is a bit....long-winded.It contains no less that 44 "whereas" clauses, in

  July 7, 2009

• Houston Sounds Off on Michael's Memorial

  L.A. Weekly's Twitter updates have slowed down, but there's plenty of Houstonians following along. Here's a selection from the past 30 minutes or so: cashless: "Blanket, FTW!" joeyguerra: ""we need to look up, where he is undoubtedly perched on a crescent moon, and we need to smile." - brooke shields" Htwngirl: "Damn you Brooke soooo heartwarmingly sad. I am fighting the tears and it's bug the shit out of htwngirl day at work. ugh!!" Htwngirl: "Wow how Jermaine can sing. OMG holding in the tears

  July 7, 2009

• Funeral, Cameras: Yep, Sheila Jackson Lee Is In The House

  Shocking news: There was a funeral service where cameras were present, and Sheila Jackson Lee showed up.Lee had a big speech at today's Michael Jackson's...whatever it was. And she went on and on. For eight minutes. (If the video above doesn't work, try here.)Lee quickly became a huge topic on Twitter. And as with all things Lee, opinions were divided. The anti-Lee tweets:handymankyle: Sheila Jackson Lee compared MJ to people in the bible then said they work with all faiths, and then She

  July 7, 2009