Year: 2011

Watching Jason Spencer transition from Chron reporter/editor, to HISD spokesman could be fun. Recall his complaint about former HISD PR chief Terry Abbott: I’d never been involved in covering a school district with a “press

Last week, two news organizations decided to follow the Chronicle‘s lead and deploy journalists on the Angry Lefty Blogger beat: Dem cries foul over free GOP turkeys (Ned Hibberd, KRIV-26 News) Local Democrat questions GOP

Pardon the short notice, but a few of us have decided we’re overdue for a right-blogger get together. We’ll be descending upon the Stag’s Head Pub at 2pm today (Saturday) until ???? Come on by

The Harris County Democratic Party will be hosting a mini-conference today entitled “Blueprint for a Blue Harris County.” The mini-conference will begin with a panel discussion by Bicyclist Bob Stein, Keir Murray, Charles Kuffner, and

Yesterday, Bill King launched what he promises will be a series of op-eds on the significant problems facing the City of Houston’s pension plans (massively underfunded, and threatening to become even more of a burden

The Chronicle reports that the Houston-Galveston rail project that had some folks so excited is now “infinitely delayed.” The slow economy’s impact on local coffers is cited as one reason, but this graf is perhaps

Since it’s been something of a slow news day, we’ll take the opportunity to clear out a few links: Metro bus, police car involved in downtown Houston wreck (Dale Lezon, Houston Chronicle) When there’s a

We almost missed the latest Ode to Sylvia Garcia that appeared in the area’s newspaper of record a few days ago. Here’s a sampling: The cannonball was still a secret from the public, but for

Chris Moran slides into the Mike Snyder Endowed Chair For METRO PR Dissemination down at 801 Texas Avenue to share the following news: After nearly halting light- rail projects last year because of mistakes in

Swamplot reports that the Downtown Pavilions project has suffered another blow, with the announcement that Books A Million will be shuttering its 23,000 sq. ft. store this month. A source told Swamplot that the bookseller’s