October 2004 - blogHOUSTON

What about Proposition 3?

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

Mayor still using false FAA revenue attack to discredit Prop. 2

October 31, 2004 Anne Linehan

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

Maybe it will be an endowed dumpster?

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

Robison's world – cont'd

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

Be yourself, Houston

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

The alternative media in Houston isn't the Press

October 30, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

Media hypes flawed study

October 30, 2004 Anne Linehan

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

A mole in Mayor White's administration?

October 30, 2004 Kevin Whited

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 offseason gets underway

October 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

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

Improving customer skills

October 29, 2004 Anne Linehan

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