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Hoffman plays local tv news consultant

January 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman pens a riotous column about local television news stations, and what they might do to improve themselves. No excerpt. Just go read it here (and come back here to discuss, of

It's not pretty?

January 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Amy Tortolani reports the following: There’s another scathing report on Houston’s troubled crime lab — this time from the man hired by the city to help uncover the problems there. Former Inspector General Michael

Local media cover Guardian Angels request

January 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, Councilmember Michael Berry solicited input for his guest-radio appearance on KTRH-740 regarding the anti-crime organization The Guardian Angels. Later in the day, KHOU-11 ran a story on the matter, and today KPRC-2 and the

Mayor closes Memorial to celebrate his inaugural

January 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel posted quite a whopper from Mayor Bill White before his inauguration today: The new year is a time for new beginnings, for some, but not for Houston Mayor Bill White. “We are

Would you pay $10 to see these people play basketball?

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

This year the NBA All-Star game will be at the GRB on February 17, and for only $10 you can go and stargaze: In years past, the game has featured celebrities such as Sean P.

How to be an inflexible governmental agency

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday was a Hurricane Rita make-up day for HISD, to the chagrin of many students, undoubtedly, and Laurence Simon pointed out that taxpayer-funded Metro ran on a Sunday schedule, so any HISD students who normally

Can Texas' concealed handgun law fill in where HPD can't?

January 3, 2006 Anne Linehan

Chris Baker wants to know if Houston has lost the war on crime. I don’t know if I’d say Houston has lost the war, but Houston city Bigs need to get serious SOON, because it’s

Capers fired, Casserly to remain

January 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

There’s no reason to link to any “Capers is fired” stories, since we all knew it was coming. Somehow, Charley Casserly kept his job, although Bob McNair made it clear in his press conference that

Talking about the city: Berry subbing for Baker today

January 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

Councilmember Michael Berry emails that he’ll be sitting in for Chris Baker again today on KTRH-740 (3 to 7 pm). He’s thrown out a couple of potential topics for input from bloggers and blog readers

Next time, visit the archives and not the Mayor's spokesman

January 1, 2006 Anne Linehan

In this Matt Stiles and Kristen Mack story previewing Mayor White’s next term, there is an odd paragraph toward the end: This summer White, along with Houston Independent School District officials, went door to door