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Cohen: "The name of this newspaper is the Houston Chronicle…."

January 2, 2008 Kevin Whited

In the January 2008 Texas Monthly, Paul Burka writes about reductions in the size of the Austin press corps. His story includes snippets of a conversation with Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen: I called Jeff Cohen,

New GHCVB leader to focus on Houston's strengths

January 2, 2008 Anne Linehan

Today’s Chronicle runs an L.M. Sixel Q & A with the GHCVB’s new leader, Greg Ortale. Here’s an excerpt: What I really want to do is to tie our convention solicitations with the economic demographics

DA Rosenthal won't seek reelection (updated)

January 2, 2008 Anne Linehan

Via the Chronicle‘s Alan Bernstein: Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal has withdrawn his name from the Republican ballot for re-election today amid pressure from his own party following last week’s release of intimate emails

Less-than-world-class New Year's greetings

December 31, 2007 Kevin Whited

We’d like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Sadly, our quirky little burg didn’t manage to resurrect the world-class New Year’s Eve Star event. Recall that Carol Alvarado was too

HISD develops K-8 schools

December 31, 2007 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle‘s Jennifer Radcliffe reports that HISD is transitioning some elementary and middle schools into K-8 campuses, hoping to improve academics: Houston leaders are anxious to add more K-8 campuses but find themselves facing an

Michael Berry worries about Big Brother…sometimes

December 30, 2007 Anne Linehan

This Chronicle story on new state laws that take effect in 2008 reminds me of something I meant to pass on before Christmas. One of the new laws requires most employees of a school district

Perhaps not the best person to call for the end of term limits…

December 30, 2007 Anne Linehan

(Almost former) Councilwoman Carol Alvarado continues complaining about Houston’s term limits in an op-ed for today’s Chronicle:

Thoughts on the Rosenthal email flap

December 30, 2007 Kevin Whited

The big local political news over the last few days (over the course of a holiday break, travel, bowl games, a server crash, end-of-year work crunch, and other assorted fun) has involved emails send by

Astrodome Hotel cheerleader resigns county position

December 29, 2007 Anne Linehan

This is welcome news (via the Chronicle‘s Bill Murphy): Under pressure from County Judge Ed Emmett, Mike Surface has resigned as chairman of the Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. Surface cited “personal and professional

Technical difficulties

December 27, 2007 Kevin Whited

Apparently, the web host had a hard drive crash earlier, which knocked us off the web for a bit. Unfortunately, they had to restore from a backup that wasn’t exactly current, so some posts and