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REPORTERS BRADLEY OLSON AND MIKE SNYDER report for the Chron that the Gene Locke campaign has resorted to negative advertising: “Peter Brown is spending millions of dollars in this mayor’s race because he can’t match

SWAMPLOT blogs that the Ashby highrise developers will ask for approval of their original concept, which included street-level retail and other features that the walkable/sustainable planning crowd claims they want (elsewhere). How’s that for an

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