David Barron of the Houston Chronicle reports that Channel 13’s undercover reporter Wayne Dolcefino pleaded no contest to charges of criminal trespass in Austin County: “KTRK (Channel 13) reporter Wayne Dolcefino will serve nine months
One of the Chronicle‘s two editorial writers* weighed in today on the matter of “saving” newspapers. Cory Crow was as unimpressed as we were, and much more motivated to explain why, so go read him
Last month, various blogs noted that Houston Police Officers’ Union president Gary Blankinship had pointedly urged Mayor White to scrap General Order No. 500-5, the city’s sanctuary directive. James Pinkerton has a lengthy story on
At the end of last week, the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reported that the city’s troubled Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) is under the supervision of a new director: Ray Sim, most recently the
Way back at the beginning of April, KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel reported on cost discrepancies related to METRO’s big expansion plans. The Examiner News‘s Mike Reed followed up on the story nearly a week ago. The
Here is an interesting correction from the Chron: In his Friday column, Rick Casey erroneously reported that Susanne Daviscq was the only candidate for commissioner of Harris County Emergency Services District #9 in today’scq election.
KTRK-13’s Undercover Man Wayne Dolcefino documented this week that the life of state university administrators IS the life. Having lived the university (low)life through grad school, I became aware of the nice lives led by
Houston’s thin-skinned Mayor can let no negative news story go unchallenged (however rare those negative stories may be). To that end, here is a letter to the Chronicle from our part-time* mayor: Rivercrest Drive is
The Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports that former mayor Bob Lanier’s River Oaks home is now on the market. Previously, Sarnoff reported that the swine-flu epidemic might boost Houston’s sagging hotel business (er, perhaps not). The
The Houston Press’ Hairballs blog notes that there’s some serious visual blight at Discovery Green: Nothing says seat belt safety like five oversized inflated balloons in the shape of a cowboy, duck, bull, Godzilla monster