Chronicle metro/state columnist Rick Casey wrote a column on Friday in favor of Proposition 3. While Propositions 1 and 2 have been discussed quite a bit, Proposition 3 has received far less attention. Basically, as
Last week, I ran across this AP story about the Prop. 1/Prop. 2 battle: Proposition 1, created by Mayor Bill White and other city leaders, would limit increases in property taxes and water and sewer
Various Houston media outlets reported earlier this week that former Houston police chief and mayor Lee P. Brown will be donating his personal papers to Rice University. The blogHOUSTON crew couldn’t come up with a
Clay Robison, the Chronicle‘s Austin news bureau chief who moonlights as hyperpartisan editorialist every Sunday, penned another column blasting Governor Rick Perry (R) and conservatives today. This excerpt from the column is all too typical
A few days ago, the Chronicle ran a question and answer session with Joel Kotkin, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who writes on urban development issues, broadly conceived. It’s a little shocking
A professional journalist with “big media” here in town asked in an email recently why we focused on the Chronicle so much but ignored the Press. I thought that was a good question. We do
100,000 Iraqi civilians estimated killed That’s the headline of a Washington Post story the Chronicle ran the other day, based on a newly released “analysis” done by some researchers. In the fourth paragraph of the
Dan Patrick’s successor website to Chronically Biased has obtained what appears to be an internal memo to Mayor White highlighting a loophole in city finances that might allow the city to evade the requirements of
The Astros announced yesterday that the team will pick up the $3 million option on Craig Biggio’s contract for next year. However, the Astros declined to pick up the $9 million option for Jeff Kent’s
Yesterday, L.M. Sixel had an interesting column on how Chipotle Mexican Grill is beefing up its employees’ communication skills: In June, Chipotle decided to go beyond its basic training of burrito-making and key English phrases