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Rick Casey 'Economic LiveJournal' debuts!

July 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey decides today to play economist. Casey apparently doesn’t much like the incentive packages used to entice formerly large mail-order firms like Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s to

Down in the mud, blood, and beer with Rep. Poe

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Former local judge and current U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R) has joined the celebrity blogging crew at the Huffington Post. The post isn’t notably worse or better than most of the content at HP, although

Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone" again

July 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

Various media outlets are reporting that today’s rain has shut down METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” for the second day in a row. Nothing is moving all that well anywhere in the city right now. At

White & Edwards: We're tired of this MediaSource topic!

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that City Council delayed a vote on funding for Houston MediaSource today, and Mayor White is back to sounding perturbed: “You can’t stop people from complaining. And, you know, I’ve never

What does Casey really think about Republicans?

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chronicle metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey writes the following today: The suit wasn’t heard by a jury but by Judge Hart. Under Travis County rules, when a lawsuit is declared to be “complex,”

Rain shuts down METRO "transit backbone"

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 reports that the heavy rains forced METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” to shut down earlier today: METRORail was also shut down between the University of Houston-Downtown and Wheeler stations because of high water. Traffic was

Chron editorialists try to blame DA, judges for crime lab fiasco

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 general manager Steve Wasserman has belatedly weighed in on the HPD crime lab controversy: Appalling is the only word to describe the magnitude of the mismanagement under which the Houston Police Department crime lab

Mayor, Chron editorialists now see merit in Wiseman's complaint

July 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

On July 3, the Chronicle ran a mean-spirited editorial criticizing Councilmember Wiseman’s stance on Houston MediaSource’s programming. The editorial advanced a bizarre theory of the First Amendment and prior restraint that seems pervasive at Houston

MediaSource to Berry: We know better than you!

July 11, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller checks in on a City Council committee meeting today, and finds that city leaders aren’t impressed with Houston MediaSource’s exercising its alleged First Amendment rights by airing full frontal nudity: 11 News

More "olds" from the editorial idealists

July 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last weekend, we noted that it seemed like James Howard Gibbons and his band of editorial idealists must have been in a big hurry to get away from 801 Texas Avenue for a long weekend,