June 2009 - Page 2 of 5

Chron adopts reader representative by committee, neglects to inform readers

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

Over the years, we’ve had some useful interaction with the Chronicle reader representative, the individual who received reader (customer) complaints and queries about the newspaper and at least tried to provide a response (if not

Jury awards wrongly convicted man $5 million

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Roma Khanna reports that a federal jury awarded George Rodriguez $5 million today as a result of his lawsuit against the city for wrongful conviction: A federal jury today awarded $5 million to

Corrections, Chron style: Wrong = "outdated"

June 24, 2009 Kevin Whited

Chronicle transportation columnist Carolyn Feibel posted this interesting clarification/correction towards the end of this week’s column: Speaking of stimulus funds, I gave you outdated information in last week’s column. Metro cannot use $30 million of

Linkpost: 06/23/09

June 23, 2009 Kevin Whited

For quite a while, we’ve linked to interesting local blog posts over on the sidebar. Most people probably don’t notice it there, so we’re going to try reposting them here in the aggregate, maybe with

Now there is an insurance database

June 23, 2009 Jason

The Chronicle’s Carolyn Feibel writes about the new database created to help police catch uninsured motorists. Since October, police can run license plates and will see if there is confirmed insurance coverage with the state.

Hair Balls posts the latest on BARC

June 22, 2009 Kevin Whited

Over on the Houston Press Hair Balls blog, Craig Malisow posts several updates on BARC (here, here, and here). Do you think Mayor White discusses his administration’s neglect of BARC (and puppies!) when he is

Chron.com makes a mess of columnists page, again

June 22, 2009 Kevin Whited

Chron.com recently updated its columnists page, after a similar update in May. Austin politics reporter Peggy Fikac is now listed on the page, as is sports reporter “Gerald” Solomon. Unfortunately, the RSS feed for Fikac’s

Where in Texas is Mayor White?

June 21, 2009 Anne Linehan

With apologies to Carmen Sandiego, we’ve been amused to see Senate-candidate White traveling the state in search of money and votes, trying very hard not to sound like the good progressive he resembles in, uh,

1560 The Game cracks Top Ten for morning drive

June 21, 2009 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s David Barron reports that relatively young sports talker KGOW-1560 continues to show some impressive growth: Mild surprise No. 1: For the first time since August 2008, one of Houston’s four all-sports radio stations

$180,000 in "undeclared" cash seized at Bush Intercontinental

June 20, 2009 Anne Linehan

Someone tried to get a suitcase full of money past customs at IAH last week: The Customs Border Protection (CBP) stopped an unidentified person traveling to Mexico after the X-ray machine images revealed great sums