March 2008 - blogHOUSTON

Tuna mercury levels exceed federal guidelines in some Houston restaurants

March 31, 2008 Kevin Whited

Houston sushi fans may be interested in this news from the Chronicle‘s David Ellison: Samples of bluefin tuna purchased recently from six Houston-area restaurants had mercury levels above federal guidelines, according to laboratory tests performed

Mobility Response Team in action early this morning!

March 31, 2008 Kevin Whited

I ran across a few members of Mayor White’s “Mobility Response Team” on their cute little scooters this morning, and managed to get a photo: THAT is world class!

FTA forces METRO to get realistic about new lines' cost

March 31, 2008 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee’s Move It! column is devoted to the news that METRO has been given approval to go ahead with preliminary work on the North and Southeast lines. However, the Federal Transit Administration also told

Queen Sheila may not like this video footage

March 30, 2008 Kevin Whited

Houstonians are very familiar with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s love of TV cameras. KHOU-11 posts a story that probably isn’t going to be among Queen Sheila‘s favorite videos, though. Here’s an excerpt (but be sure

Medellin Take Two: Editorial LiveJournalists fail to cite nonexistent treaty

March 30, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Editorial LiveJournalists opined earlier in the week on the recent Supreme Court decision in Medellin v. Texas. Unlike the last time they wrote about the matter, they didn’t seem to create any new treaties

It's surprising Chief Lambert didn't come down and Taser her!

March 30, 2008 Kevin Whited

Carolyn Wright writes a letter to the Chronicle about her recent experience on METRO’s transit backbone: On March 12, I had a court appearance at 9 a.m. At Fannin South station, I tried to purchase

Rosenthal, attorney fined over deleted emails

March 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

Various media outlets have reported on the latest (and perhaps the last) bad news for former Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal. Here is an excerpt from the Chronicle: A federal judge ordered former Harris County

Bridging the wireless internet gap (WIG)

March 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Editorial LiveJournalists weighed in today with an editorial celebrating Mayor White’s wifi bubbles (with an odd digression on “technology overload”). Cory Crow gives the editorial a serious treatment here, but we’re kind of partial

What's a cartoon worth to you?

March 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

Matt Bramanti reports that Chronicle cartoonist Nick Anderson’s efforts to raise money for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists by auctioning his illustrations on e-bay aren’t drawing much interest. Strike that — as of this

Chron.com: dumbed down and trashed up (cont'd.)

March 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

Jennifer Ringwald (of Houston’s best cover band) posts this observation about Chron.com: Of 12 headlines on the Houston Chronicle homepage, 3 concerned strippers. Doesn’t that seem oddly balanced? This is actually preferable to yesterday, when