January 2006 - Page 5 of 16

Erratic times with quotations at the Chronicle

January 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

Last week, the Chronicle issued a correction related to a quotation that didn’t really clarify who made the error (the newspaper or the person being quoted). Yesterday, the Chronicle issued another correction related to a

KHOU, Mayor's press shop extol crimefighting by acronym

January 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

Mayor White’s communications shop certainly is effective at getting good press for the Mayor. Take this press release story for KHOU-11 by Wendell Edwards: A new program has put more Houston Police officers out on

City of Houston to build parking garage under new downtown park

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

And here we thought the city was low on funds, since we have a problem with increasing crime and decreasing police manpower. Well, it looks as though Mayor White has found $21 million for a

County wants to change the Sports Authority's mission

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Harris County wants to look at the Sports Authority’s mission to see if it should be changed: Harris County Judge Robert Eckels and county commissioners have approved an in-house review of the Harris County-Houston sports

Ford Motor Company's loss is HPD's gain?

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

In the quest to find police recruits, HPD is going to…Detroit? Recent news out of the automobile industry has the department looking at other recruitment possibilities as well. “Ford is going to be laying off

Shooing away Houston's homeless (updated)

January 24, 2006 Anne Linehan

Houston is working hard to rectify a dismal seventh place showing in that meanest-cities-to-the-homeless report: Houston police today rousted dozens of homeless from downtown encampments in a sweep spurred at least partly by complaints from

Chron reader rep, pollster defend DeLay poll

January 23, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Houston Chronicle and its pollsters continue to stand by a poll and reporting that have come under strong criticism from the local blogosphere. This weekend, Chronicle reader representative James Campbell penned a column in

Finishing up the Brays Bayou urban tidal marsh project

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Check out KUHF’s (88.7) story on a pretty neat tidal marsh project along Brays Bayou: Set along Brays Bayou in southeast Houston, an urban freshwater tidal marsh is nearly complete, a unique project that will

Thankfully, we have a vigilant watchdog media looking out for us

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

Okay, here’s Rad Sallee’s story from last November about Metro’s cancelled, er, never scheduled public meetings: Last week, the Metropolitan Transit Authority abruptly canceled two public meetings on proposed changes in 59 of its 85

Seeking a civic vision that actually benefits most citizens

January 23, 2006 Anne Linehan

John Wagner has an interesting post up about men who made a difference in Houston, specifically the Chronicle‘s former publisher Richard J.V. Johnson and Texas Commerce Bank’s former chairman Ben Love, both of whom died