Year: 2009

HOUSTON NEWS OUTLETS report that Sheriff Adrian Garcia’s county-supplied SUV was vandalized. In his driveway. (Chronicle, KPRC-2, KHOU-11, KTRK-13) KHOU ran this quote: “I thought having him living across the street would make things safer

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S LEE ANN O’NEAL explores ethics loopholes and HISD.

THE CHRON’S JAMES PINKERTON reports that a court “has ordered the city to release 160 of 208 contested documents” related to the White Administration’s effort to withhold public information related to red-light cameras. Strangely, the

REPORTERS BRADLEY OLSON AND MIKE SNYDER report for the Chron that the Gene Locke campaign has resorted to negative advertising: “Peter Brown is spending millions of dollars in this mayor’s race because he can’t match

SWAMPLOT blogs that the Ashby highrise developers will ask for approval of their original concept, which included street-level retail and other features that the walkable/sustainable planning crowd claims they want (elsewhere). How’s that for an

THE LAST TIME TEXAS WATCHDOG beat the pants off the Chronicle on a local story, the news side of the ever-shrinking newspaper never reported it, instead letting Rick Casey do his own noxious form of

CORY CROW asks, “who are these ‘fiscal conservatives’ of which you speak?”

“UNCA DARRELL” Hancock calls attention a fine recent Chronicle op-ed by John Diamond on the city’s pension mess. Mayor Bill White couldn’t resist writing a letter in response, to disagree with Diamond (of course). We

THE CHRON’S CAUCASIAN THINK TANK has had a rough few days.