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Chronicle makes Best of the Web

April 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

James Taranto highlights an improbable opening sentence in a Chronicle story from yesterday: We Didn’t Think It Possible to Be This Unlucky “For the second time in a week, a woman was killed after being

La Porte ISD superintendent missing

April 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13 has a story about the disappearance of La Porte ISD Superintendent Molly Helmlinger: School Superintendent Molly Helmlinger has been missing for more than a month. La Porte ISD says Helmlinger has always been responsible.

Gebe Martinez referenced the "GOP memo," too

April 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

I recently posted about Cragg Hines buying into that most-likely-fake “GOP talking points memo” that ABC News and the Washington Post were crowing about, regarding Congress’s Terri Schiavo legislation. (As an aside, I have written

Chronicle readers take apart the Taser story

April 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

Predictably, the Chronicle editorial board wrings its hands over yesterday’s Taser story. As I said yesterday, I am amazed at the seeming lack of critical thinking skills in “professional” journalists, and the Chronicle‘s editorial hits

I-45 meeting this Saturday

March 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

Charles Kuffner has information on a meeting this Saturday to discuss TxDOT’s plan to widen I-45.

Groups fret over Taser usage; Chronicle hops to attention

March 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Roma Khanna — who has done yeoman’s work for Jeff Cohen in exposing the shocking fact that HPD officers have actually had to use their guns when dealing with bad guys, and in

Chron garners award for Enron-related coverage

March 31, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Houston Chronicle, criticized for its coverage of Enron as the company was unravelling, has won an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in the Breaking News category, for its more

What's Jon Lindsay up to now?

March 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

Houston Architecture Info Forum has posted a bill that state Sen. Jon Lindsay (I’m suspicious already) has filed “relating to the planning, construction, and operation of toll road projects by certain counties.” Since Sen. Lindsay

Councilwoman calls for SAFEclear audit

March 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

KPRC-2 is reporting that Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs is requesting an audit of the SAFEclear program: Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs asked the city controller for a thorough accounting of the controversial program. “It’s important to know not

Texas shield law for journalists rears its head again

March 31, 2005 Anne Linehan

A few weeks back, the Chronicle editors wrote an editorial encouraging the Legislature to pass HB188, a bill that would give journalists special privileges — in essence, a shield law. We pointed out then that