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We TOLD you the Chron editorial board is Mrs. White!

January 27, 2014 Kevin Whited

Over at Culture Map, Clifford Pugh continues to break interesting news about the changes at the Houston Chronicle under the leadership of new editor Nancy Barnes. Most of the changes make quite a bit of

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! Bull running comes to Houston (or Baytown actually)

January 27, 2014 Neal Meyer

Saturday, yours truly read a blurb in the news that the first ever running of bulls type event was coming to Houston. Now, like many, I’ve seen television shows about the running of the bulls

Chron.com: A journalist is dead; Here, click away on our photo gallery of other journalists!

January 26, 2014 Kevin Whited

Chron.com, the Houston Chronicle’s free news/listicle/photo gallery site, ran a story a few days ago about the death of former KHOU news director and anchor Dick John. The post did not actually report his age,

Splendid? Bumbling former METRO police chief Tom Lambert gets permanent CEO gig

January 24, 2014 Kevin Whited

The METRO board announced Thursday, with great hyperbole, that interim CEO (and former police chief) Tom Lambert would be getting the job permanently: Board member Burt Ballanfant, who made the motion to open negotiations with

Is the City of Houston shutting down the Top Gun shooting range?

January 20, 2014 Neal Meyer

This week’s post will be a rather short one, as I missed posting this past week, and I’m not in that big of a mood to spend hours belting out a post. With that announcement

ChronWhopper METRO crash update: Chron story off by hundreds of crashes

January 19, 2014 Kevin Whited

On 3 January 2014, we called attention to a “Highwayman” post from the Chron‘s incurious transportation secretarial journalist, who had reported what was clearly a ridiculously low number of Danger Train crashes since the start

Annise Parker quietly gives City Attorney David Feldman whopping 43% pay increase

January 15, 2014 Kevin Whited

News from the first week of 2014 that Mayor Annise Parker quietly gave City Attorney David Feldman a huge 43% pay increase made it into the city’s newspaper last week, courtesy of a memo from

Mayor Annise Parker set to nominate Diann L. Lewter to METRO board

January 13, 2014 Kevin Whited

This week’s City Council agenda reveals that Mayor Annise Parker is set to nominate a new METRO board member: CONSENT AGENDA NUMBERS 1 through 51 MISCELLANEOUS – NUMBERS 1 through 7 [snip] 2. REQUEST from

Chron columnist who originally reported Bagwell andro use now insists he never used PEDs

January 11, 2014 Kevin Whited

Houston sports journalists, who were excitedly touting Craig Biggio’s imminent selection to the Hall of Fame early in the week, instead have had to backtrack after Biggio fell just two votes shy (after falling 39

City Council tackles Houston’s infamous booze desert problem

January 10, 2014 Kevin Whited

Mayor Annise Parker and her City Council this week gave two Houston moneyed interests (big grocers and developers) a very generous Happy New Year gift. The pretext for the move was tackling the city’s poorly