May 2006 - Page 11 of 13

How much more subsidizing do Drayton McLane and Les Alexander need?

May 4, 2006 Anne Linehan

HPD’s payroll management is receiving plenty of attention these days, mostly through some outstanding reporting by the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles. KPRC-2’s Troubleshooters added to the discussion last night with a story about who pays for

No staff Chron Eye for this death row killer guy

May 4, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle declined to use its own staff to report on Jackie Barron Wilson, who was executed in Huntsville today. Instead of the sympathetic portrayal of a killer that we’ve come to expect from the

Chron: City may soon hit Proposition 1 cap

May 4, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Dan Feldstein reports that property tax collections in Houston may soon exceed what is allowed under Proposition 1: Houston homeowners could get a tax break as early as next year because of a

Chron: 22 HPD officers earned $50k in overtime last year

May 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles follows up today on an earlier story on an HPD officer who earned more than the mayor last year because of overtime pay. As it turns out, many officers had six-figure

Agenda-driven journalism isn't a substitute for the real thing

May 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle seems to have let anti-death-penalty fervor trump solid journalism again with today’s coverage of a report, commissioned by the Innocence Project, that contends an innocent man may have been executed in Texas because

St. Luke's backs away from decision to terminate care

May 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Todd Ackerman reports that St. Luke’s Hospital has backed off plans to terminate the care of a patient under the Texas “futile care” law: St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital decided Tuesday to keep treating

Hurtt: Surging murder rate "very much unacceptable"

May 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the murder rate in Houston shot up again in April: Houston’s murder rate for April was the highest in the past three years, KPRC Local 2 reported. Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt

Dreadful Chron headline writers strike again

May 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

Headline seen on Chron.com: Oil falls more than $2 as gas demand eases It would be really nice, here in the energy capital of the world, if editorialists and headline writers at the city’s only

Houston's Katrina cost: $200 million and counting

May 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11’s News Blog has posted a breakdown of Houston’s Katrina expenditures, which it obtained from the city controller’s office.

Is METRO SORTa on alert?

May 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

Via Laurence Simon: ABC News has learned that the Department of Homeland Security has alerted U.S. mass transit officials to “suspicious videotaping” of European rail systems that point to a continuing terrorist interest in targeting