Year: 2009

TIRED OF ALL THE ELECTION CHATTER? Today’s Houston FaF (sports) Smear could be just the ticket!

LONGTIME HOUSTON PRESS FOOD REVIEWER ROBB WALSH has ditched the whole anonymity thing. In part, he’s just following the lead of the New York Times and its new reviewer. In part, he says the job

LONE STAR TIMESMAN DAVID BENZION complains about “mainstream journalists confusing ‘objectivity’ (striving to be fair and accurate) with ‘neutrality’ (refusing to acknowledge reality because it means one side in a debate is closer to the

MURRAY NEWMAN blogs about budget difficulties and broken promises in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. UPDATE: Newman posts more on Budgeting, Lykos style.

TORY GATTIS calls attention to a Dallas Observer blog post on the congestion that rail expansion may produce in downtown Dallas. “My understanding is that Houston may face the same risk when the east-west line

THE CHRONICLE was forced to issue a lengthy correction to both a news story and staff editorial today: An Oct. 24 story about a settlement reached in a federal lawsuit against former Harris County Tax

CONGRATS TO OUR FRIENDS AT TEXAS TRIBUNE on their debut today. Their site is crisp, informative, mobile-friendly, and full of content (on Day One) from professional journalists (not amateurs) — a real contemporary “newsie’s” news

SINCE HOUSTON-BASED CONTINENTAL AIRLINES switched alliances a few days ago, newspapers in Continental’s other hub cities (Newark/NYC and Cleveland) have reporting interesting news from President Jeff Smisek, who takes over for CEO Larry Kellner next

THE BIG ELECTION is likely to dominate the news coverage today, so we’re going to throw open the comments. Please feel free to discuss the election, candidates, voting, etc.

FOLLOWING THE LEAD of Nancy Sims and her Sams (awarded to all three major mayoral candidates — no need to offend a potential future client after all!), Cory Crow has posted his own Significant Houston