Month: October 2009

CHRON.COM updated their earlier, erroneous murder-free-streak blurb…. with another erroneous blurb. Psst, Chronsters: The murder took place north of downtown Houston, which is part of Harris County (as opposed to unincorporated Harris County, which is

THIS WEEK’S VILLAGE VOICE HOUSTON CORPORATE ALT-WEEKLY has a great cover. The accompanying story doesn’t quite live up to it, but it would take a lot to make a long feature about these candidates interesting

THE CHRON’S PAIGE HEWITT reports that another suspicious fire occurred in the Heights. An assistant fire chief is calling it the latest arson in the neighorhood.

THE CHRON’S SUSAN CARROLL reports that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement alternatives-to-detention program isn’t working quite as well as the agency claims: Nearly one in five suspected illegal immigrants who went through an Immigration and

NASTYGRAMS from Peter Brown? He doesn’t maintain an active architect license? WHAT?

THE HEADLINES AND BLURBS seem to have a gotten a little out of sync at Chron.com (see bottom left). Maybe the web staff was too busy doing political roundups for online news QA today. Thanks

THE CHRON’S CAUCASIAN THINK TANK approve of Mayor White’s new Veterinarian Shakedown Revenue Stream. KEVIN WHITED ADDS: Blogger Brian Phillips has a different view.

LOCAL 2 INVESTIGATES has done a nice story on problems with the city’s parking meters. Parking Management Busybody Lilianna Rambo told reporter Stephen Dean that the city only has four mechanics total to repair broken

KUHF-88.7’S LAURIE JOHNSON reports that City Council this week will continue efforts to get Harris County to help enforce Mayor White’s red-light-camera revenue stream. There’s just one tiny problem: Harris County officials are balking: “The

TEXAS WATCHDOG has posted the handwritten, undated resignation letter that Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan’s office insists that J. Marcus Hill turned in a few days before the nonprofit’s story on apparent conflicts of interest.