Commentary

SLAMPO recounts his conversation with the Chronicle‘s erratic features editor, Kyrie O’Connor, over the newspaper’s new “The Good Life” gambit, which he posted about previously. That man deserves some sort of Blogurbatin’-hazardous-duty pay (or at

THE DANGER TRAIN AND A METRO BUS collided downtown earlier today, right near METRO headquarters (Chronicle, KPRC-2, KHOU-11, KTRK-13, KRIV-26). Remind us again why so many smart Houtopians think building rail at grade down busy

BLOGHOUSTON FAVS JAY WALL AND STAN BURTON offer Mayor Parker a number of public-safety recommendations in this op-ed in today’s Chronicle.

METRO says it will continue its Airport Express bus service despite a KTRK-13/Ted Oberg story this week criticizing the per-passenger cost of the service (caused by low ridership so far). Count me among those who

THIS WEEK’S HOUSTON PRESS features a really solid local story by an actual professional journalist*: John Nova Lomax takes a look the sharp change in the prosecution of vehicular crimes under Harris Country District Attorney

METRO’S MARKETING DEPARTMENT WANTED to do something that showed “METRO isn’t just a government entity,” so they thought and they thought, and shazam! it hit them: Let’s make a rap video with kids. As the

YESTERDAY, UNCA DARRELL skewered the Chronicle editorial board, as he is wont to do on his intelligent blog. Today, he announced that he’s shutting things down. Unless he’s becoming the Chron‘s conservative staff columnist (right!),

MIKE MCGUFF thinks CW39 should be pretty happy with the Chron‘s glowing profile of Mia Gradney, even if the timing is a little puzzling.

THE CHRON’S JUNIOR METRO/STATE COLUMNIST returns to the print version of the newspaper today with an essay not about metro/state matters… but about herself. Congratulations go out to the new mother, of course. But we

IT’S BEEN A WHILE, so we thought we’d have one of our blogger/beer/BS gatherings. We’ll be hitting the Stag’s Head Pub on Saturday from 2pm – ???? Come on by, have an adult beverage, and