Month: June 2010

THE CHRONICLE reports that the Houston Marathon will be adopting a lottery system for registration. This sentence appeared in an early version of the story: The races have sold out for the past five years

IN THURSDAY’S CHRONICLE, BRIAN ROGERS reported on double-jeopardy arguments surrounding the case of a man now being tried for arson after previously being acquitted of a capital murder charge related to the fire that killed

THE FRONT PAGE OF CHRON.COM is touting the news that UH could be invited to join the Big 12 conference soon. Unfortunately, they are linking to a tongue-in-cheek post from unstable sports columnist Richard Justice.

KHOU-11 reports that the City will be adding more parking meters around town, starting this fall: The areas for the meters are east of downtown near the Museum District, Hermann Park, the Arts Warehouse District

THE CHRON HOUSTON POLITICS BLOG posts the latest on METRO’s ongoing “Buy America” problems.

METRO’S bloated PR department has lashed out at the Houston Press over Paul Knight’s fine print story about the rogue agency’s behavior in recent years. The Press posts the METRO letter and Knight’s capable rebuttal

CORY CROW highlights (lowlights?) the latest odd editorializing from America’s Worst Big City Daily.

YESTERDAY, THE CHRONICLE reported that Council would consider temporarily tightening the city’s property-use regulations, “long maligned as overly deferential to developers” (as the Chron lede characterized* the matter). The “temporary” tightening would go into effect

SWAMPLOT calls our attention to the news that any tar balls found along Texas shores at this point are almost certainly not from BP’s ongoing offshore environmental disaster.

CLEAR THINKER TOM KIRKENDALL comments on a New York Times piece on the government tactic of obfuscation, which frequently is used to hide/obscure the true cost of promises made today for benefits tomorrow. Kirkendall cites