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Month: March 2005

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It's not a coincidence because?

March 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reported last week that another building in a historic neighborhood has been lost to a fire. His report included the following: Thursday’s blaze broke out in the 1200 block of Elysian near

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Cohen hails successful libel defense

March 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle is hailing a Texas Supreme Court decision dismissing a libel suit brought against the newspaper by former Smith County District Attorney Jack Skeen. The court found that Skeen had not demonstrated that Chronicle

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Move Casey to the editorial page

March 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

We haven’t had much to say about Chron columnist Rick Casey lately because his columns usually speak well enough on their own (that’s not meant as a compliment). From time to time, though, it’s useful

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Chron still covering school privatization (non)controversy

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Kristen Mack is the latest Chronicle reporter to write on the HISD-is-privatizing-high schools, made-for-newspaper brouhaha. Today’s story covers a protest at Sam Houston High School: HISD Superintendent Abe Saavedra faced another crowd of angry parents

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New DeLay allegations, but not from the local newspaper

March 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Laurence Simon calls attention to this article on the latest campaign finance allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R), which found their way into the New York Times from the Washington Post via Reuters.

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Chronicle says "fatwa" speaks for all religions

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle editorial board writes a very bizarre thing in an editorial about the one year anniversary of the al Qaeda bombing in Madrid. The editorial also mentions the “fatwa” issued by Spain’s Islamic Commission

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Happy Birthday, Mayor Bob

March 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Kristen Mack gets a jump start on former mayor Bob Lanier’s Chronicle obituary with her municipal politics column that ran on Friday. I say that because the celebration of all things Mayor Bob is not

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Chronicle finds a connection between Mel Gibson and Hitler

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

So, why is the Chronicle in a troubling and declining circulation trend? Why does the paper make a Top 10 list of newspapers that rely on “freebies”? Stories like today’s on the recut Passion of

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HISD releases TAKS results

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has released TAKS results for third and fifth graders, and the news is mixed: HISD third-grade students performed well on the TAKS reading test this year, with 83 percent passing the English version of

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The mystery of the mustache, solved

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

A downtown statue has a new look, and the statue’s artist isn’t pleased: David Adickes showed up Thursday at downtown’s Lyric Center with Groucho Marx eyeglasses and a fake nose. But though the Houston sculptor’s

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