Year: 2009

A LOCAL MEDIA EDITOR/OPINIONIST doesn’t know what to think about objective journalists offering their opinions.

HOUSTON’S job losses are decreasing. Or maybe not.

MAYORAL CANDIDATE ANNISE PARKER has swung into attack mode against Peter Brown. Hmm, you have to wonder if her internal polling shows a big lead for Brown. He was on television by himself for a

ONE OF HOUSTON’S BETTER SPORTS REPORTERS calls out* lesser reporters over weak coverage of the Jose Cruz reassignment (not firing). * See Graf #8

ACCORDING TO THE HOUSTON PRESS’ CRAIG MALISOW, the White Administration has apparently concocted a new Vet Shakedown Revenue Stream. Here’s one vet’s explanation: “Basically, what was told to us by Alfred Moran [was] ‘This, BARC,

LOCAL BLOGGER BRIAN PHILLIPS demolishes the White Administration’s argument in favor of a massive “affordable housing” giveaway: “I don’t think one needs to be an accountant to realize that spending $45 million to save $1.7

CHRONICLE REPORTER JEANNIE KEVER follows up on her last dreadful effort at reporting for and of the newspaper’s niche education sources with…. more dreadful reporting for and of other niche education sources. Why do Chron

LAZY, PLAGIARIZING CHRON COLUMNIST RICK CASEY tries to slime Texas Watchdog over their clear conflict-of-interest story involving Harris County Dems that they nailed down cold. Texas Watchdog’s Trent Seibert schools the old boy. Advantage: Texas

MAYORAL CANDIDATE GENE LOCKE says he can pay for more cops by getting the city “out of the jailing business.” The Chron‘s Bradley Olson calls BS on that claim.

SELF-DESCRIBED “SEASONED, CYNICAL POLITICO” NANCY SIMS appears to be quite smitten with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome. Strangely, she seems to think that Newsome’s heavy-handed regulation has resulted in growth in San Francisco and would