Last weekend, we noted that the alt/Texas country music acts at the Houston International Festival didn’t seem as strong as usual. That could be because Rick Mitchell, who did a fabulous job with the bookings
Someone must have lit a fire underneath editorial page Editor James Howard Gibbons, because today we get an editorial on President Bush’s trip to Galveston where he talked about Social Security. The President’s trip out
KTRK-13 posts an AP dispatch that checks in on Spiro Nikolouzos, who was mentioned in earlier blogHOUSTON posts: A man in a persistent vegetative state whose family battled with a Houston hospital to stop his
Yesterday, the Chronicle ran a story by Harvey Rice about the number of women on the HPD force that included the following quote: “I don’t know what they’ve done in Houston, but I suspect they
It took a visit from President Bush, but the Chronicle has finally covered Galveston’s alternative Social Security program: President Bush touted Galveston’s alternative public retirement system as family-friendly Tuesday as he sought to promote his
The Harris County Toll Road Authority has sent out a press release trying to temper the idea that it is taking over the Spring segment of the Grand Parkway. I’ll reprint the entire release in
Chronicle headline this morning: Two-thirds of HISD fifth-graders pass tougher math TAKS test Oh, sorry. That wasn’t it at all: Third of 5th-graders here fail math exam (online headline has been changed: Third of 5th-graders
The Chronicle‘s makeover seems not to have ended with the big layout changes that reduced the amount of actual information in the paper in favor of more text boxes and graphics. We’ve been noticing that,
Chris Elam calls attention to a Chronicle report on new rules being requested by the Houston Public Library. Yesterday, KHOU-11’s Dan Lauck also reported on the matter: The library house rules haven’t officially been changed
From a Saturday Chronicle story: Education Secretary Margaret Spellings fined Texas $444,282 Friday for the state’s continued defiance of the No Child Left Behind Act. For the last two years, the Texas Education Agency has