June 2005 - blogHOUSTON

Chron: We professional journalists need special privileges!

June 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

Earlier this year, the Chronicle editorial board advocated a state law that would create new privileges for professional journalists. The legislation died. Undeterred, the Chronicle editorial board today advocates a national law that would create

Besides Metro, mayor and developers, who DOES like the new plan?

June 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

So let me see if I have this straight: the people who thought they were getting light rail aren’t getting it, and they are not happy about it; and the people who weren’t getting light

Bromwich releases damning Phase I report on HPD crime lab

June 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

Michael Bromwich, the independent investigator charged with analyzing problems at the HPD crime lab and property room, issued a damning final report (pdf) of Phase I of his investigation today. The report is highly critical

Major League Soccer in the Astrodome?

June 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

How does Mayor White do it? He just got finished dreaming up a new $2 billion expansion plan for Metro and today we learn that he’s been busy working on getting a Major League Soccer

Busy HISD board meeting today

June 30, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD had an action-packed board meeting today, with the most surprising development being the reinstating of the Key Middle School principal who had been demoted after an HISD investigation determined TAKS cheating took place at

McGuff covers local blogging

June 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Michael McGuff has posted a good article on local blogging to the station’s website. The article features quotes and such from Charles Kuffner, Anne Linehan, and me. The Armadillo Palace gathering to which McGuff

Energy Institute relocates to UT-Austin (updated)

June 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Houston Business Journal reports that the University of Houston’s Institute for Energy, Law and Enterprise — frequently referred to simply as the Energy Institute — has left the energy capital of the world and

Connelly: METRO's version of Pimp My Ride

June 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

Rich Connelly writes the following in the latest issue of the Houston Press: Metro has famously made some “adjustments” to the $2 billion transportation plan approved by voters in 2003. Basically, areas of town represented

Godspeed, little Edloe

June 29, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s a sad day. (Don’t miss the comments and trackbacks, but be sure you have a box of Kleenex next to you.) She was a much beloved kitty and Laurence was very generous in sharing

Chron editorialists discover Brown Administration "rotten dealings"

June 29, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle editorial board weighs in with a shocker today: things were really bad during Lee Brown’s administration! Of course, the Chronicle editorialists did not feel that way during the Brown experience, instead preferring to