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Chronicle's Huynh wins Beard Foundation award

May 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Dai Huynh has won a prestigious James Beard Foundation award. Her November 2004 column “A Mountain of Hope” was the best in the category of newspaper feature writing without recipes. The Houston Press‘s

Fiddling while Houston burns?

May 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

KUHF-88.7’s Laurie Johnson reports that city council has postponed a vote on banning “pocket bikes.” Councilmember Ron Green wants the pocket bikes banned within city limits. Councilmember M.J. Kahn wants children to be banned from

Local media helps city officials with red light camera issue (updated)

May 3, 2005 Anne Linehan

MayorWhiteChiefHurtt must have sent out a press release to local media outlets, because following up on yesterday’s KHOU-11 story about the “epidemic” of red light running, the Chronicle helpfully writes up its own story. One

Chronicle publisher spins circulation decline

May 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, the latest newspaper circulation figures were released. The Chronicle suffered a 3.9% decline in daily readership. Today, the Chronicle put its spin on the decline, in a story in the business section: “We anticipated

Enron "wunderkind" destroys historic River Oaks home

May 3, 2005 Anne Linehan

This story about a historic River Oaks home being demolished is really disappointing: The grand old house at 2950 Lazy Lane — an updated historic property known as Dogwoods — hardly looked like a teardown.

Liberal group funds local anti-DeLay ads

May 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 picks up an Associated Press story about billboard advertising against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) locally: “Lobbyists sent Tom DeLay golfing; all you got was this billboard,” says a billboard overlooking a freeway

KIOL adds second (permanent) frequency

May 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Billboard reports that KIOL, which has been broadcasting on the 97.5 FM frequency, has now begun simulcasting on its permanent frequency, 103.7 FM. The 97.5 frequency will flip to its new format, which will complement

International brouhaha in stink-free Houston?

May 3, 2005 Anne Linehan

Who knew that addressing the issue of Houston’s stinky libraries could cause an international crisis? Civil rights groups and the French government were outraged today after the Houston City Council voted to pass a law

KSEV talker promises to sort out home foreclosure

May 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Earlier, we heard KSEV 700’s Dan Patrick take up the story of the woman who lost a property via foreclosure by a homeowners’ association, which Anne Linehan posted about here last week, and Owen Courreges

Life and death in Houston

May 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 checks in on Spiro Nikolouzos, and reports that the man is being moved back to a nursing home with a pro-life orientation. We had previously noted the San Antonio hospital’s decision to pull the