Month: August 2009

Today the Chronicle has a gigantic header about the deaths caused by medical mistakes. DEAD BY MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!! That got everyone’s attention, didn’t it? I encourage everyone to read the whole article for yourself. It’s filled

The poor Chron.com metro/state editors have been having a time of it lately. The Chron.com edition of a weekend story by Bradley Olson on the mayoral candidates’ timid approach to crime repeated grafs, which nobody

Houston’s three mayoral contenders — and even the other guy in the race — all agree that we need more police on the street and need “smarter” policing. None of them really goes into much

Today, we salute one Andrew Prieditis, prolific newspaper letter writer and citizen of the world! Mr. Prieditis came to our attention as we were catching up on Chron letters to the editor over the past

Two events that occurred on the streets of our metroplex that won’t make the news: First: A teenage girl was home alone when two burglars pulled into the drive and started forcing their way into

My blogging colleague Anne Linehan was far ahead of the curve* in Houston when she pointed out, back in March, the difference between Mayor Bill White and Senate-Candidate Bill White. As the city has gone