The Chronicle today runs yet another story (35 paragraphs this time!) on the airport parking “scandal” (we add the quotes because we had trouble getting too excited about it when KTRK-13 first reported on it during a slow news cycle).
Rather than the usual excerpt, we’ll just let you know that some people abused the perk, and the city now plans on cracking down! Because while we’ll tolerate a downtown overrun with pushy vagrants and a city overrun with murders, we will NOT stand for abuse of airport parking by the city’s elites. Darnit!
Meanwhile, the same newspaper has not devoted similar space (certainly not 35 paragraphs!) to what is, in our view, an important developing story: HISD’s stance on replacing the TAKS test with end-of-course exams. HISD’s board is set to take up the issue formally on Thursday, but Superintendent Abe Saavedra’s comments in favor of the end-of-course exams suggest that HISD’s position on the matter is already developed. Since HISD is the state’s largest school district and the TAKS debate has grown contentious in recent years, you’d think the Chronicle would want to own that important story. But so far, an AP story is all we’ve seen on Chron.com.
Ah well. We’re sure the local daily would have reported it if something truly important were happening at HISD — say, if Saavedra were abusing airport parking privileges!
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