We’ve been waiting — nay, practically begging — for some local journalist really to dig into the dysfunction within the Parker Administration roughly one year since winning office.
We didn’t expect this sort of treatment from Village Voice Houston, even though an alt-weekly would be a perfect outlet in many (world-classier?) cities. And we have to admit that we didn’t see it coming from the Chron‘s senior metro/state columnist/plagiarist.
Yet Rick Casey’s column in the Sunday Chronicle print edition (and e-edition — sorry Kindle subscribers!) delivered today, both in terms of analysis and in terms of actual reporting involving phone calls and such (yes, we were shocked too!).
Since we are not one of Dwight Silverman’s Anointed, we dare not reproduce half the column from our Chronicle e-edition (the sort of copyright abuse regularly practiced by Houston’s sexiest blockquoter*), but here are some of the highlights (in pr
