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Astrodome Radio Station Silenced

By Todd Spivak

Houston Press | September 21, 2005

As activist James Ellinger imagined it, a community radio station would have helped reunite family members and link evacuees to jobs, schools and health care.

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Tags: FCC, a spokeswoman for Harris County Judge Robert Eckels, assistant fire commissioner for Harris County, Austin Airwaves Inc., Gloria Roemer, Houston Independent Media Center, Robert Royall Jr.

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