Month: February 2010

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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