Year: 2009

HERE IS THE LEDE for the Move It column currently on Chron.com: Or “womyn” or “mneatr” or whatever strikes your fancy. Obviously, something has been omitted. Does anybody edit Chron.com (aside from, you know, removing

BREAKING ITS RECENT SILENCE, the Chron.com Houston Politics blog links to a post by a local lefty blogger on Gene Locke’s support of the Houston Dynamo and its new stadium. The Locke campaign has apparently

CHRON COLUMNIST L.M. SIXEL reports that all those SEIU employees that have been much more “organized” in Houston in recent years are “represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 1 in Chicago.” Sixel also

KTRK-13 REPORTER MIYA SHAY blogs about Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman’s efforts to boost deputy Kevin Mauzy’s profile.

HAS ANYONE seen the full text of METRO Chairman David Wolff’s speech to the Greater Houston Partnership? I’ve looked but can’t find it posted anywhere. Maybe the communications department is too busy dreaming up new

BLAWGGER MARK BENNETT, commenting on the recent Houston Press article featuring DWI attorney Tyler Flood, asks “why wouldn’t Tyler want to tell the story of bad arrests and junk science, to the benefit of each

THE CHRON’S DAVID BARRON reports that KILT-610 has regained the sports talk radio lead during morning drive (men, 25-54) that had been held by KGOW-1560’s John Granato and Lance Zierlein. The shift coincides with the

HOUSTON CHRONICLE HEADLINE: Some Muslims fear backlash after rampage. There was no mindless “backlash” after 9/11. There will be no mindless “backlash” after 11/5. Why? “Unca” Darrell Hancock has the answer. And if the local

KHOU-11’S DAVE FEHLING reports on Houston’s aggressive towing companies and some of the towing hotspots in town. If you’ve lived in Houston for a while, you’re probably aware that parking in a marked tow zone

IN AN OP-ED TODAY, FORMER HARRIS COUNTY TAX-ASSESSOR COLLECTOR Paul Bettencourt follows up on the Chron‘s recent correction of both a news story and an editorial with the account of how his office processed tens