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Lee Brown: the legacy continues to grow

December 8, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Mike Snyder reports the following bad news about a Houston “affordable housing” program: City officials are struggling to limit financial losses and protect tenants’ rent restrictions after the top recipient of the city’s

Richard Justice confounded by his two hands

December 7, 2004 Kevin Whited

Chronicle sports columnist Richard Justice penned a typical “two-handed” column today. On the one hand, he had this to say about Texas Longhorns football coach Mack Brown: I think the notion he can’t win a

Dalati will join Pallilo at new sports talk station

December 7, 2004 Kevin Whited

David Barron reported earlier this week that KILT-610 personality David Dalati will be making the jump to the new sports talk station (KBME-790) that will be launching in a couple of weeks. Dalati will apparently

Chron recycles "olds" from the DMN

December 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

We know Chronicle columnist Rick Casey has had a little problem in the past with giving proper attribution when he lifts article ideas (and even exact phrases) from other newspapers. At least Lucas Wall is

Food and drink roundup (12-06-2004 edition)

December 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

We’re still a little behind on the food and drink articles from the last week, which was another fairly busy one for the city’s various reviewers and writers. Robb Walsh did double duty, with a

Calvin Murphy acquitted

December 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

Various media outlets are reporting that a jury has acquitted former Rockets star and broadcaster Calvin Murphy of all charges accusing him of sexual abuse. It took jurors just over two hours to reach their

Unintentional humor from Clay Robison

December 5, 2004 Kevin Whited

Clay Robison penned an unintentionally amusing column about Governor Rick Perry today. By the usual weekend editorial standards of the hyperpartisan Austin news bureau chief, it was relatively tame stuff, much less incendiary than his

Downtown traffic signals still suffer from neglect

December 5, 2004 Kevin Whited

Chronicle transportation columnist Lucas Wall notes that the city is still having problems maintaining its downtown traffic/pedestrian signals: The public works department, citing Houston’s financial woes, still doesn’t have a comprehensive system for maintaining traffic

Chron: all Fertitta, all the time

December 5, 2004 Kevin Whited

With the utterly unconvincing “criticism” of Tilman Fertitta appearing as a house editorial a few days ago, the Chronicle can get right back to unabashedly promoting the playpen of one of the darlings of the

I'll have the Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM enchiladas

December 4, 2004 Kevin Whited

Who would have guessed an explosion in H-town would attract the attention of the big boys? It’s good that Reynolds is on terror alert for our city, I guess. But it’s better that it prompted