December 2004 - Page 2 of 14

New Year's Eve babysitting/fundraising

December 29, 2004 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 is running a story about a Friendswood softball team with a unique fundraising idea: It happens every year. Parents put off confirming a baby-sitter until the night before New Year’s Eve, and end up

Contributions to Sontag obituary

December 29, 2004 Anne Linehan

Susan Sontag died yesterday and media outlets everywhere are offering tributes. The Chronicle chimes in with a piece written by Fritz Lanham. Sort of. At the end of Lanham’s article is this: The New York

Thinking about the Chron sports pages

December 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

We don’t normally do many posts on local sports here at blogHOUSTON. Still, we are interested in how local media covers sports, and the Chronicle frequently comes up short in that area as in others.

Metro must feed the light rail

December 28, 2004 Anne Linehan

There was a Metro-related story hidden away in the West U. regional “This Week” section of the Chronicle. It talks about the need for some kind of shuttle/bus service between the West University Place-Rice Village

Cirque du Soleil arrives in Houston

December 28, 2004 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 reports that Cirque du Soleil has arrived in Houston. Shows begin on January 6. More information about this unusual traveling circus can be found here.

A wasteland of an editorial page

December 28, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle editorial page seems like such a wasteland much of the time. One would think that the editorial page of the only major daily in the state’s largest and the nation’s fourth-largest city would

Chronicle had a heads up on TAKS cheating story

December 28, 2004 Anne Linehan

Almost at the end of today’s letters to the editor is this one from Terry Abbott, HISD’s press secretary, with some surprising information: THE Houston Independent School District is very serious about maintaining academic integrity

Breaking news: Houston isn't like Pittsburgh

December 28, 2004 Anne Linehan

What do Pittsburghers (that’s what the linked story calls them) think of Houston? Well, let’s just say the author of this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story writes up Houston as a mixed bag: Many aspects of Houston

Former Mayor Brown launches think tank, consultancy

December 27, 2004 Kevin Whited

Kristen Mack, who has been disappointing as the Chronicle‘s replacement for former political writer John Williams, nevertheless occasionally provides some humor. Take last week’s column on former mayor Lee P. Brown, who is wrapping up

Local firm developing adult stem cell treatments

December 27, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Courier (Montgomery County) has a story about a biopharmaceutical firm in The Woodlands that is developing treatments for heart disease and diabetes from adult stem cells: PharmaFrontiers has an exclusive contract to develop stem