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Month: February 2010

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Mike McGuff interviews Mayor Annise Parker

February 23, 2010 Kevin Whited

MIKE MCGUFF posts an excellent interview he conducted with Mayor Annise Parker. That sets the bar pretty high for audio/video bloggers (and pro journos for that matter), and it’s a very good appearance for the

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Seibert: Walking about Eastwood

February 22, 2010 Kevin Whited

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S TRENT SEIBERT posts about his weekend stroll about Eastwood.

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The Chron resumes its sanctuary city advocacy

February 22, 2010 Kevin Whited

FORMER MAYOR BILL WHITE NEVER ALLOWED a public Council debate over a past police chief’s unilateral implementation of sanctuary city status. When the issue occasionally came up during the White era, proponents of sanctuary status

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Dynamo fan: We’re gonna do it until we get a new stadium

February 21, 2010 Anne Linehan

RALLY FOR DYNAMO STADIUM: Channel 11 reports “dozens” showed up. And why should taxpayers give millions of dollars to fund another sports stadium? “‘It’s an eyesore to come down Harrisburg,’ said Gallegos.”

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Houston Politics: METRO covers its coverage

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

THE CHRON HOUSTON POLITICS BLOG notes that METRO’s bloated media relations/PR department regularly produces an in-house assessment of media coverage of the transit organization. It would be nice to know how much this level of

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HISD outdoes METRO on expensive “state of” presentation

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

NEW TEXAS WATCHDOGGER LYNN WALSH reports on HISD chief Terry Grier’s “state of the schools” talk, and the $80 price tag for what was described as a fundraiser. Here’s our quaint notion: “State Of” speeches

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Chronically out of touch

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

NOT-QUITE-RETIRED BLOGGER UNCA DARRELL mocks the Chron editorial board for the lesson they took from Scott Brown’s election.

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Your money: A new $2.3 million soap box derby park!

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

THE CHRONICLE’S CHRIS MORAN writes about Steve Radack’s new $2.3 million soap box derby park. We are fairly green conservative types here at the little blog, and we like public parks, but I can’t come

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Why turn over so much content provision to amateurs?

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

THIS POST AND THE COMMENTS illustrate the ongoing amateurization of what was once a compelling alt-weekly better than anything we might compose tonight.

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Slampo: Wait, wait…. Please tell us!

February 21, 2010 Kevin Whited

SLAMPO blogs about the new book from anti-death penalty crusader David Dow. If any professional publication in town had any sense, it would be paying this guy whatever he wants to write as many words

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