Commentary

THE LAST TIME TEXAS WATCHDOG beat the pants off the Chronicle on a local story, the news side of the ever-shrinking newspaper never reported it, instead letting Rick Casey do his own noxious form of

CORY CROW asks, “who are these ‘fiscal conservatives’ of which you speak?”

“UNCA DARRELL” Hancock calls attention a fine recent Chronicle op-ed by John Diamond on the city’s pension mess. Mayor Bill White couldn’t resist writing a letter in response, to disagree with Diamond (of course). We

THE CHRON’S CAUCASIAN THINK TANK has had a rough few days.

MIKE MCGUFF posts ABOUT KHOU-11’s Lone Star Emmy success. Congrats to all the winners!

THE HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL reports that a Princess Cruises survey “finds that Houstonians are among the nation’s most stressed city dwellers,” trailing only Chicago. No details about the survey methodology were reported. UPDATE: KRIV-26 has

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER reports that controller candidate and current councilmember Ron Green owes the IRS $120,000+ in back taxes. Green says it’s an honest dispute that is a matter of public record, that he

THE CHRON’S DOUGLASS BRITT blogs about the historic Alabama Theater, post-bookstore.

“UNCA DARRELL” HANCOCK takes apart a recent editorial from the Chron’s Caucasian Think Tank.