Month: June 2010

LOCAL BLAWGGERS PAUL KENNEDY AND MARK BENNETT offer their takes on an HPD plan, nixed by City Hall, for officers to practice drawing blood from state prison inmates (HPD Practices On Prisoners For Drawing Blood

MARC CAMPOS observes: The Chron can send a reporter over to France to cover a bike ride but not the World Cup

METRO’S SIT AND SPIN BLOG* excitedly points out that some online travel magazine touts the Danger Train as a great way to “see the sights” in Houston. Our advice to sensible people is to ignore

HERE is a strange lede from a news story: In Houston’s massive $4.2 billion budget, bilingual pay is a blip on the radar. It’s a $1 million “blip” annually, according to Councilmember Anne Clutterbuck, and

UNCA DARRELL continues his running critique of the editorial board at America’s Worst Big City Daily.

KHOU-11 NEWS checks in on the ongoing red-light camera battle. Big Jolly Politics posts more.

AS A PRO-ESTABLISHMENT, PRO-METRO CHEERLEADER, the Houston Chronicle metro desk doesn’t aggresively promote or deliver watchdog reporting in the public interest on a regular basis. Too often, the newspaper is simply pulled along by events;

KHOU-11 reports that City Council today approved a $70,000 settlement with a veterinarian whistleblower who was fired from BARC during Bill White’s administration. Between Frank Wilson’s golden parachute, the BARC issue, and ongoing problems of

THE CHRON’S JUNIOR METRO/STATE DIARIST follows up again on earlier reporting by Texas Watchdog on Sheltering Arms with a specific report on how an organization with little accountability/transparency helped weatherize one Houston home. It’s too

RELIANT PARK officials unveiled their options for revamping the Astrodome space, and one plan could cost taxpayers nearly a billion dollars according to the Chronicle‘s Chris Moran. The most ambitious proposal, he reports, “would require