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After owning both mikemcguff.com and michaelmcguff.com and letting them waste away, I have pointed both urls to this blog.

So now you can access the Mike McGuff Blog with mikemcguff.com or michaelmcguff.com.

As you might imagine, it has been very busy for me lately. I’m not complaining, but just letting you know that I am still working hard on the Marvin Zindler tribute page. There will be more late nights and content on its way.

When I was assigned to build the tribute page, I knew it had to be good. I’m putting a lot of pressure on myself for this project. It has been very emotional and I have teared up many times while working on it. That is a common occurrence around the station right now.

I’m glad the Internet has liked the image I made for the top of the page - the one with five Marvin pictures through the years. I’ve seen it a lot of places around the web. Just so you know, those colors bleeding out from behind the columns separating Marvin’s pictures are supposed to be representing television color bars (they are probably out of order though).

Here are the new things I added Monday:

I found some classic Marvin stories from the 1970s and put the video online. You’ve seen short clips of some of these on TV in the past few days, now see the entire story. I might put more of his 1970s era stories online this week.

Shara Fryer, Ed Brandon, Deborah Duncan, Jan Glenn, Bill Balleza and Alan Hemberger all stopped by the KTRK studios to talk with the magnificent Melanie Lawson about their Marvin memories. There is some great stuff in these videos.

See all of the items folks are leaving outside of the abc13 studios on Bissonnet. There is a makeshift memorial that seems to get larger all of the time. It was strange walking outside the station property and encountering Houston Chronicle and CW39 photogs.

There is visitation and funeral information on The Consumer Blog. You will notice that I changed the header on that blog.

President Bush, his father and other leaders have issued statements on Marvin’s passing.

Of course I am not the only one in the web department, so check back often for other great additions to the site in Marvin’s memory.

You know the drill. As with the last time, Vince is the roundup master. Click on for the highlights….

There’s a big debate going on in Texas about private toll roads, especially for the Trans Texas Corridor. The legislature slapped a two year moratorium on them last session, although with enough loopholes to be pretty toothless. I’ve been very skepti…

I suppose this shouldn’t surprise me, but it still kinda does. While the rest of his former teammates were on…

I’m throwing a party this Friday.
You’re invited!

Excellent. Former House Appropriations Chairman Talmadge Heflin of Houston is the new executive director of the Texas Republican Party, state…

Marvin Zindler, Channel 13’s iconic crusading news reporter, has died from cancer at the age of 85. Marvin Zindler, a…

Judge Susan Criss, the “blogging judge” who’s also a candidate for the State Supreme Court, has revamped her website in…

Mark your calendars for these upcoming concerts: Interpol w/ Liars @ Verizon, September Queens of the Stone Age w/ Arctic Monkeys @ Verizon, September Earlimart @ Backroom (The Mink), October 16th…