Month: February 2010

SS CHRON PRIORITIES: Editor Dwight Silverman conducts an in-house class on “advanced Twitter usage.” Editor Kyrie O’Connor attends but gets distracted analyzing what the men in the room are wearing. Apparently, this is not a

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Rogalski follows up on previous reporting on the area’s problems with abandoned buildings with a nice analysis of City of Houston response times to citizen complaints about the same. The results are not

KTRK-13’S TED OBERG reports that the City of Houston is taking action to tear down a derelict building, “two weeks after Eyewitness News” reported on it as part of a story on the demolition backlog.

SLAMPO recounts his conversation with the Chronicle‘s erratic features editor, Kyrie O’Connor, over the newspaper’s new “The Good Life” gambit, which he posted about previously. That man deserves some sort of Blogurbatin’-hazardous-duty pay (or at

THE DANGER TRAIN AND A METRO BUS collided downtown earlier today, right near METRO headquarters (Chronicle, KPRC-2, KHOU-11, KTRK-13, KRIV-26). Remind us again why so many smart Houtopians think building rail at grade down busy

BLOGHOUSTON FAVS JAY WALL AND STAN BURTON offer Mayor Parker a number of public-safety recommendations in this op-ed in today’s Chronicle.

METRO says it will continue its Airport Express bus service despite a KTRK-13/Ted Oberg story this week criticizing the per-passenger cost of the service (caused by low ridership so far). Count me among those who

THIS WEEK’S HOUSTON PRESS features a really solid local story by an actual professional journalist*: John Nova Lomax takes a look the sharp change in the prosecution of vehicular crimes under Harris Country District Attorney

METRO’S MARKETING DEPARTMENT WANTED to do something that showed “METRO isn’t just a government entity,” so they thought and they thought, and shazam! it hit them: Let’s make a rap video with kids. As the

YESTERDAY, UNCA DARRELL skewered the Chronicle editorial board, as he is wont to do on his intelligent blog. Today, he announced that he’s shutting things down. Unless he’s becoming the Chron‘s conservative staff columnist (right!),