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Chron still covering school privatization (non)controversy

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

Kristen Mack is the latest Chronicle reporter to write on the HISD-is-privatizing-high schools, made-for-newspaper brouhaha. Today’s story covers a protest at Sam Houston High School: HISD Superintendent Abe Saavedra faced another crowd of angry parents

New DeLay allegations, but not from the local newspaper

March 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Laurence Simon calls attention to this article on the latest campaign finance allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R), which found their way into the New York Times from the Washington Post via Reuters.

Chronicle says "fatwa" speaks for all religions

March 13, 2005 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle editorial board writes a very bizarre thing in an editorial about the one year anniversary of the al Qaeda bombing in Madrid. The editorial also mentions the “fatwa” issued by Spain’s Islamic Commission

Happy Birthday, Mayor Bob

March 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

Kristen Mack gets a jump start on former mayor Bob Lanier’s Chronicle obituary with her municipal politics column that ran on Friday. I say that because the celebration of all things Mayor Bob is not

Chronicle finds a connection between Mel Gibson and Hitler

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

So, why is the Chronicle in a troubling and declining circulation trend? Why does the paper make a Top 10 list of newspapers that rely on “freebies”? Stories like today’s on the recut Passion of

HISD releases TAKS results

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has released TAKS results for third and fifth graders, and the news is mixed: HISD third-grade students performed well on the TAKS reading test this year, with 83 percent passing the English version of

The mystery of the mustache, solved

March 11, 2005 Anne Linehan

A downtown statue has a new look, and the statue’s artist isn’t pleased: David Adickes showed up Thursday at downtown’s Lyric Center with Groucho Marx eyeglasses and a fake nose. But though the Houston sculptor’s

Rangers complete evidence audit

March 11, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last night, KPRC-2 reported that an initial audit by the Texas Rangers and HPD of some 280 boxes of “forgotten and misplaced evidence” had been completed. According to the KPRC report, which included a reaction

Food and drink roundup (03-10-2005 edition)

March 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

There’s no restaurant review from Alison Cook this week, but it’s an otherwise informative week from Houston’s food and drink reviewers. Robb Walsh finally abandons the French obsession with a review of Himalaya Restaurant, and

Metro's disappearing "Startling Facts"

March 10, 2005 Anne Linehan

Metro’s “Startling Facts” press release, which entertained me over the weekend, has mysteriously disappeared from Metro’s site. But Metro is no match for the power of Google, so here’s the cached press release. I don’t