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DMN previews new Lakewood Church

July 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

Bruce Nichols, the Dallas Morning News‘ man in Houston, has a sneak preview of the new Lakewood Church and its enthusiastic leader: Besides prominence and easy access, the remodeled facility will feature the latest bells

Why more sports columnists should have blogs

July 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the Chronicle published an interesting Richard Justice column on former Astro Jeff Kent. Also yesterday, Justice posted some additional details about Kent on his SportsJustice blog. The combination worked, nicely.

Mayor White — working to improve Houston's schools?

July 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald has this entry in its Editors Blog about Houston sprawl: If there’s a city where sprawl isn’t just tolerated but celebrated, it’s Houston. After all, this is a place where people

Dr. Lee P. Brown joins Unity National Bank board

July 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

Former Mayor Lee P. Brown has been busy: A local business group led by Dr. Lee P. Brown, the former Houston mayor, and Kase L. Lawal, chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Inc.,

A Fleck Editorial LiveJournal: Into the sea (or toilet?)

July 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

Tim Fleck joins James Howard Gibbons, Andrea Georgsson, and Judy Minshew as official Chronicle LiveJournalists today! In his usual style of drive-by-attack journalism, Fleck uses an editorial board meeting with HISD Superintendent Abe Saavedra to

Minutemen generate Houston hysteria

July 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

I started reading this Chronicle story about the upcoming Apocalypse, otherwise known as the Minutemen-are-coming-to-town, and I could barely get past the second paragraph I was laughing so hard: “The city of Houston is a

Wiseman wins converts on Houston MediaSource controversy

July 9, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that Houston MediaSource, the organization that came under fire from Councilmember Addie Wiseman a little over a week ago for allegedly running obscene/vulgar programming on a public access channel, now

More on Major League Soccer in Houston

July 9, 2005 Anne Linehan

This Soccer Times story makes Major League Soccer in Houston sound like an almost-done deal: This left Houston as probably the only option that appealed to Grupo Televisa. However, the league has been stymied for

Non-sequiturs and other nonsense from the editorial idealists

July 8, 2005 Kevin Whited

Today, the Chronicle editorial board concluded a poorly written but mostly reasonable editorial on the London terror attacks with the following non-sequitur: In light of what Britain and Blair continue to risk and endure in

Food and drink roundup (07-08-2005 edition)

July 8, 2005 Callie Markantonis

It’s time for another food and drink roundup. Last week Alison Cook tried and liked the barbecue at Pizzitola’s Bar-B-Cue. In this week’s more whimsical offering, Alison thinks this Greek girl needs convincing that figs