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Robison's world – cont'd

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

Clay Robison, the Chronicle‘s Austin news bureau chief who moonlights as hyperpartisan editorialist every Sunday, penned another column blasting Governor Rick Perry (R) and conservatives today. This excerpt from the column is all too typical

Be yourself, Houston

October 31, 2004 Kevin Whited

A few days ago, the Chronicle ran a question and answer session with Joel Kotkin, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who writes on urban development issues, broadly conceived. It’s a little shocking

The alternative media in Houston isn't the Press

October 30, 2004 Kevin Whited

A professional journalist with “big media” here in town asked in an email recently why we focused on the Chronicle so much but ignored the Press. I thought that was a good question. We do

Media hypes flawed study

October 30, 2004 Anne Linehan

100,000 Iraqi civilians estimated killed That’s the headline of a Washington Post story the Chronicle ran the other day, based on a newly released “analysis” done by some researchers. In the fourth paragraph of the

A mole in Mayor White's administration?

October 30, 2004 Kevin Whited

Dan Patrick’s successor website to Chronically Biased has obtained what appears to be an internal memo to Mayor White highlighting a loophole in city finances that might allow the city to evade the requirements of

The Astros offseason gets underway

October 29, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Astros announced yesterday that the team will pick up the $3 million option on Craig Biggio’s contract for next year. However, the Astros declined to pick up the $9 million option for Jeff Kent’s

Improving customer skills

October 29, 2004 Anne Linehan

Yesterday, L.M. Sixel had an interesting column on how Chipotle Mexican Grill is beefing up its employees’ communication skills: In June, Chipotle decided to go beyond its basic training of burrito-making and key English phrases

Get Houston moving

October 28, 2004 Callie Markantonis

blogHOUSTON sometimes questions the city’s priorities, but Houston drivers will certainly appreciate this news from KHOU-11’s Dan Lauck: “Getting traffic signals timed right, getting the stalled or wrecked vehicle off the road quickly, making sure

Local media on Rosenthal

October 28, 2004 Kevin Whited

Rick Casey penned yet another column that takes shots at Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal on Wednesday, continuing a pattern of coverage by the anti-death-penalty Chronicle of tying Rosenthal negatively to the ongoing controversy

Effectiveness of Tasers questioned

October 28, 2004 Kevin Whited

We have previously questioned the city’s priorities in light of plans to purchase nearly $5 million in Taser equipment at a time when HPD is having to deal with manpower shortages because political leaders have