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An editorial from left field

December 20, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle editorial page is in rare form today. After its bit of revisionism concerning the pension plan, it moves on to tackle a topic that has been troubling Houstonians for some time now: King

Pension plan revisionism at the Chronicle

December 20, 2004 Kevin Whited

Today, the Chronicle runs a seemingly sensible editorial that lauds “good guy” Mayor White’s plans to abolish the generous “Group C” time accrual provisions in the city’s pension plan: Few City Hall insiders paid attention

DMN continues with TAKS cheating scandal

December 20, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Dallas Morning News has another story related to the TAKS cheating scandal, this time going through the ways cheating can occur and the ways officials can detect or prevent cheating, which obviously isn’t being

Will Laurence Simon still talk to us little people?

December 20, 2004 Anne Linehan

Time Magazine has a list of ten things its writers have learned about blogs this year. This one is the best, in my opinion: Pets Have Blogs Too It started as an in-joke among feline-friendly

Mayor focuses on the really important local issues

December 20, 2004 Anne Linehan

Mayor White’s office issued a press release saying that the land acquisition for Houston’s own Central Park is complete: “This is a significant transaction that will leave a lasting legacy for future generations of Houstonians

Doesn't Robison have something in Austin to write about?

December 19, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chron’s Austin news bureau chief is acting as Mayor White’s PR man at the newspaper again this week, rambling once more in favor of cameras at traffic lights. The “argument” doesn’t go much beyond

DMN beats Chron on important education news

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Dallas Morning News has two stories of interest, relating to public schools. The first questions the dramatic improvements some traditionally low-rated schools have made in TAKS testing: A Dallas Morning News data analysis has

Baby steps for the D.C. bureau

December 19, 2004 Kevin Whited

Gebe Martinez has a decent column on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) in today’s Chronicle that is a step up from what usually comes from the Chron on DeLay, in that it’s not simply

New teachers are ready for winter break

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has a nice story on two first-year, Houston teachers and how they are adjusting to the demands of teaching: Now they understand why teachers covet their two-week winter break. Halfway through their first

Synchronizing downtown traffic signals

December 19, 2004 Anne Linehan

In today’s Chronicle story on Metro’s belabored traffic light-linking system there is this paragraph about Mayor White’s plan to synchronize Houston traffic lights: After his election a year ago, Mayor Bill White made it clear