Shutter the Chron’s irrelevant editorial board (part whatever)

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Cory Crow finds it odd that the Houston Chronicle editorial board, which is frequently distracted by trinket governance and side issues, has suddenly decided that citizens deserve a debate over serious issues in the city as 2015 elections approach:

If issues like pensions, pot holes and public safety are so important then why hasn’t [the Chron editorial board] been calling out Mayor Parker for avoiding these issues? Instead of a “focus on the basics” plea to Mayor Parker [the Chron editorial board] has been knocking herself out heaping praise on Heronner for focusing on potty rights, junkets and trinkets.

Of course it’s normal for [the Chron editorial board], and the rest of ChronBlog to yearn for campaigns filled with ‘issues’ but then gush like pre-teens at a Bieber concert when the latest trinket is unveiled. In a way, this type of pie-in-the-sky editorializing shouldn’t surprise us but it inevitably does.

Read the entire post here: Houston Area Leadership Vacuum: The New Mrs. White makes a puzzling statement – Cory Crow, Your Drink Order Please.

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