Month: December 2009

YESTERDAY, THE CHRON’S CAUCASIAN THINK TANK admitted that there are still too many problems with HPD’s crime lab: Seven years ago — seven! — we learned that HPD’s crime lab had botched thousands of cases.

SLAMPO posts his fine summary of the municipal elections that have mercifully concluded. And Cory Crow notes that the Chron has fired up the “newly elected public official cliche generator.”

YEAH, THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE ELECTION: It’s been interesting watching national media reaction to Annise Parker’s win yesterday. Many headlines are referencing her sexual orientation, continuing an ongoing media obsession with

THE EXAMINER NEWS ran a story earlier this week by Michael Reed on the traffic/mobility disaster METRO is trying to foist upon the Post Oak/Galleria area. The headline really drives home the point of the

A LOREN STEFFY COLUMN from the past week (or so) had this interesting observation: Five years of deficit spending have largely depleted reserve funds and left the city vulnerable to rising expenses and falling tax

KRIV-26’S ISIAH CAREY AND KPRC-2’S MARY BENTON both blog about attending Mayor White’s big local holiday media soiree. We asked our friends at Texas Watchdog why they hadn’t posted similarly exciting celebrity photos, but they

KHOU-11 reports that the city is (another) $3.3 million in the red: The variance is small — just a fraction of one percent of the overall budget — but it means some small projects may

LAURENCE SIMON describes “why the Houston Chronicle will never win a Pulitzer.” Of course, there are many more reasons, but his example is a good one.

IT’S UNFORTUNATE WHEN YOU you come back to the metro desk of a bad newspaper after not reading it carefully for a week or so and find… (1) Brad Olson offering the following: “Council member

THE CHRON’S CHRIS MORAN points out that County Judge Ed Emmett isn’t happy about the county housing director’s big pay raise this year. The housing bureaucrat’s pay jumped from roughly $100k two years ago to