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International festival numbers down from 2003

May 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sedosi Alhambra calls attention to the Chronicle‘s postmortem of the Houston International Festival, held downtown again this year after a disastrous experience in the parking lots at the Reliant complex. As Alhambra points out, reporter

HBJ writer slights own publication

May 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last week, Thora Qaddumi wrote about a reunion of sorts for old Houston Post workers (and some competitors). It’s worth reading in its entirety, but this blurb caught my eye: Another hot topic among the

Lucas Wall has left the building

May 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

Since we haven’t seen an actual Lucas Wall-authored story in the Chronicle for a couple of weeks now (his Move It! columns could have been prepared before he left), curiosity got the better of us.

KPRC summarizes DeLay poll, declines to post raw data

May 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 news has run a “big story” about a poll it commissioned that found weak support for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) in his district. Unfortunately, KPRC news, which regularly trails KHOU-11 and KTRK-13

Chronicle's circulation declines

May 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

Editor and Publisher is calling today “Bloody Monday” after circulation declines were announced at many major newspapers. Banjo Jones has the bad news for the Chronicle — a decline of 3.9%. Ouch. UPDATE: Laurence Simon

How to protest a property tax appraisal

May 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s that time of year — property tax appraisals are arriving in mailboxes and many homeowners are facing big increases. A while back Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt mentioned (on KSEV-700) that the Harris

Will the new parking meters always have babysitters?

May 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

Filling in for the now-departed Lucas Wall is Juan Alanis who today tells us how the downtown parking meter try-outs are going: The jury is still out on which one of the seven vendors will

Slow the red light running "epidemic" by lengthening yellow light times

May 2, 2005 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11 shows Mayor White a little love with this story on the “epidemic” of red light running: Mayor Bill White says drivers who run red lights are “an epidemic”. If you’re looking for lawbreakers who

Chronicle covers the L.A. mayoral race

May 1, 2005 Anne Linehan

In the previous post, Kevin Whited expressed a desire to see more local news (actual NEWS, not local Live Journal offerings), and today’s Chronicle has a prime example of the problem on page A1 —

Chron's Peabody wins Stanley Walker award

May 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

On Tuesday, I posted some thoughts on what I view as increasingly personal journalism being produced by the Chronicle. I expected more of a response from professional journalists, but instead I got a sharply critical