Year: 2009

VILLAGE VOICE HOUSTON announced their 2009 “turkeys of the year” awards this week. They might have considered giving one to themselves for the ongoing amateurization of a publication that once produced interesting journalism from real

KTRK-13’s WAYNE DOLCEFINO CHECKS BACK IN with the Houston Arts Alliance: Last November we questioned why the city had spent $69,000 on city art and then put it inside a poop plant. One piece of

AT THE END OF THIS CHRON STORY about how local ISDs are having to face new economic realities, is this eye-opening sentence: “Besides delaying school construction, Cy-Fair cut $41 million by eliminating 450 positions primarily

SINCE CANDIDATE GENE LOCKE’S STAFF wouldn’t return Texas Watchdog‘s calls about his tax returns, Texas Watchdog dropped by a campaign event to get candidate Locke on the record. Locke tells the nonprofit journos he will

HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT PR MAN (AND FORMER CHRONSTER) ALAN BERNSTEIN and Grits for Breakfast blogger Scott Henson have an interesting back-and-forth on the proposed Harris County jail booking facility expansion.

SELF-DESCRIBED “POLITICAL INSIDER” NANCY SIMS admits confusion on a local campaign topic: Texas Watchdog is calling out Locke for not releasing his income tax returns. Parker has released hers. Locke might as well. This issue

Houston Mayor Bill White: “I’m running for the U.S. Senate…. Yeah, I’m running for the U.S. Senate” (KVUE News, 20 November 2009). Houston Mayor Bill White: “Today I agree to consider running for Governor, and

THE CHRON CAUCASIAN THINK TANK warns ominously today that “evidence continues to accumulate that the threat [of man-made global warming] is accelerating,” and something must be done! Apparently, the CCTT took a cue from faith-based

The Chronicle ran an embarrassing correction last week: “The Mega Millions lottery numbers were incorrect in Wednesday’s editions. The correct numbers are in today’s lottery information on this page.” It’s not the first time the

LAST WEDNESDAY, a dog managed to strangle itself at BARC while an employee cleaned its cage. Unsurprisingly, White administration flacks delayed releasing any info until Friday, typically the day where news goes to die in