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Texas Watchdog’s Trent Seibert joins KTRK-13 investigative team

March 9, 2014 Kevin Whited

We’ve been a little busy with work and other things (hence the recent blog silence), or we would have announced this bit of news that was tweeted out about a week ago: Happy to have

Parker Administration priorities take fire trucks offline, jeopardize public (and firefighter) safety

February 24, 2014 Kevin Whited

The Parker Administration and Council made news this past week by refusing to allocate additional resources to the Houston Fire Department, which is running over budget due to overtime payments that are partly a result

Add METRO’s “transit deserts” to list of obstacles to upward mobility in Houston

February 17, 2014 Kevin Whited

The Houston Chronicle ran an odd piece on its Sunday news pages that was part profile, part advocacy for greater educational opportunities as a way of fighting income inequality (we think). The headline and subheadline

A Free Press Houston writer sees the diminished future some lefties advocate… and doesn’t like it

February 12, 2014 Neal Meyer

While waiting for some work to be done at a local business establishment recently, I started reading a fish-wrap edition of the Free Press Houston (FPH). While not a regular reader of the Free Press

Greg Abbott’s Woodlands “voter fraud” adventure: Is criminal prosecution the best way to clarify ambiguous law?

February 9, 2014 Kevin Whited

Steve Miller, who covered the shenanigans of the Woodlands Road Utility District extensively for Texas Watchdog, had a long piece in this week’s Houston Press on Attorney General Greg Abbott’s pursuit of “voter fraud” charges

We TOLD you the Chron editorial board is Mrs. White!

January 27, 2014 Kevin Whited

Over at Culture Map, Clifford Pugh continues to break interesting news about the changes at the Houston Chronicle under the leadership of new editor Nancy Barnes. Most of the changes make quite a bit of

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! Bull running comes to Houston (or Baytown actually)

January 27, 2014 Neal Meyer

Saturday, yours truly read a blurb in the news that the first ever running of bulls type event was coming to Houston. Now, like many, I’ve seen television shows about the running of the bulls

Chron.com: A journalist is dead; Here, click away on our photo gallery of other journalists!

January 26, 2014 Kevin Whited

Chron.com, the Houston Chronicle’s free news/listicle/photo gallery site, ran a story a few days ago about the death of former KHOU news director and anchor Dick John. The post did not actually report his age,

Splendid? Bumbling former METRO police chief Tom Lambert gets permanent CEO gig

January 24, 2014 Kevin Whited

The METRO board announced Thursday, with great hyperbole, that interim CEO (and former police chief) Tom Lambert would be getting the job permanently: Board member Burt Ballanfant, who made the motion to open negotiations with

Is the City of Houston shutting down the Top Gun shooting range?

January 20, 2014 Neal Meyer

This week’s post will be a rather short one, as I missed posting this past week, and I’m not in that big of a mood to spend hours belting out a post. With that announcement