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Month: September 2007

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Chron's Mack headed to the Washington Post

September 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack today writes about Clarence Bradford, who will be officially kicking off his campaign for Harris County District Attorney later this month. Bradford was Lee Brown’s chief of police, and has been

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KPRC: Greek sisters and hometown airline take on fires in Greece

September 6, 2007 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 runs a story on some local Greeks and the hometown airline teaming up to help fight the raging fires in Greece: A Houston radio personality and her sister need donations to try to save

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Chron headline writers strike again (cont'd)

September 6, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chron‘s online headline writers seem to be having a rough week. Here are some of the fun ones that have appeared over the past few days: Council designs two properties as historic landmarks Unless

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Is this what you expect from an elected official?

September 6, 2007 Anne Linehan

Get a load of this: Residents complain about prostitution in their neighborhood, police investigate, someone is busted, that someone hires a local elected official as a defense attorney, and the local elected official gets that

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bH salutes Mr. Perennial Losing Candidate Guy

September 5, 2007 Kevin Whited

Today is the filing deadline for municipal elections, and the Chronicle‘s resident database/spreadsheet guru has the list of candidates. There will be plenty of time for the serious candidates to tell us all their serious

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River Oaks Shopping Center is no more

September 5, 2007 Anne Linehan

KTRK-13’s Mike McGuff has details of the shopping center’s demise and, for the non-faint-of-heart, pictures of the before and after: Crews began demolishing the building Tuesday around noon as supporters of historic preservation looked on

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Mayor White gets a big property tax reduction

September 4, 2007 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 has the story: Mayor White’s property value went from $2.2 million last year to $1.2 million this year…because he lives in a floodplain. [The mayor’s] office said he didn’t ask for a reduction, the

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Surprise! Chron facts are wrong in HISD story (updated!)

September 3, 2007 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s HISD reporting is still as stunningly incompetent as ever, with the latest example being today’s story on how HISD discriminates through uniform requirements. It is a textbook example (sorry!) of the new MSM

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Is she a reporter, editorialist, or unfunny blogger?

September 3, 2007 Kevin Whited

We’ve long suggested that the Chronicle shutter its D.C. news bureau, and either rely on pooled Hearst coverage of Washington or go with wire copy. We’ve suggested as much because we can’t really see why

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Rick Casey returns (and with Houston material even!)

September 2, 2007 Kevin Whited

A few Chronicle folks tipped us off to the fact that columnist Rick Casey has been prowling the building at 801 Texas Avenue, and that he would soon be returning to column duty. Today, he’s

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