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Chron neighborhood section recaps crimefighting-by-acronym initiatives

July 29, 2006 Kevin Whited

Jennifer Friedberg’s recent article for a Chronicle neighborhood section was inadvertently amusing for its recap of MayorWhiteChiefHurtt’s various crimefighting-by-acronym initiatives: The first phase of STOP began in early June and lasted about eight days. Uniformed

Local media ignore gaffe by Quannel the Tenth

July 29, 2006 Kevin Whited

One of the reasons we like KRIV-26 reporter Isiah Carey’s blog is that Carey dishes out information as news is being made, instead of either holding it for his reports (not yet available online) or

HISD's Reach Out to Dropouts effort is August 26th

July 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

HISD is gearing up for its third annual Reach out to Dropouts walk: Called “Reach Out to Dropouts,” this year’s door-to-door walk will be held Saturday, August 26. For the effort to be successful, the

Mayor gives Chief Hurtt, Union a babysitter

July 28, 2006 Kevin Whited

The bad feelings between Chief Hurtt and the HPD officers’ union continue to manifest themselves. As noted in an earlier post this week, Chief Hurtt lashed out at the union survey that found fault with

New director chosen for MediaSource

July 28, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that Houston MediaSource has hired a new director: Fred Fichman, who has experience in both public and corporate television, was selected last week to lead the nonprofit that manages the

Houston's a selling point for Austin's red light cameras

July 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

Austin city councilmembers are discussing how to get red light cameras operating in their city. Here’s one selling point: Council members say traffic enforcement cameras are being used in other Texas cities like Houston and

Editing errors make reporters look bad

July 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

One of those pesky “editing errors” has reared its head again in the Chron‘s Corrections box: The Metropolitan Transit Authority is considering routes along Elgin, Alabama and Wheeler for the eastern segment of its University

USA Today notices Chron's lack of Olympics coverage

July 27, 2006 Anne Linehan

Amusing: USA Today‘s On Deadline blog has a post about how the newspapers in cities contending for the 2016 Olympics handled yesterday’s news: […]as articles in Chicago (Tribune story, Sun-Times story), Los Angeles (Times story)

Yates: Not Guilty

July 26, 2006 Kevin Whited

Andrea Yates was just found not guilty by reason of insanity. This is an obligatory acknowledgment sort of post, because I’m honestly sick to death of this topic. So, we’ll have an open-comments thread. For

Chron headline writers strike again

July 26, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle is running an AP story with the following headline: Republicans argue to keep DeLay on November ballot Here’s the lede: Allowing another Republican candidate to replace former Rep. Tom DeLay on the November