The Editorial LiveJournalists weighed in today with an editorial celebrating Mayor White’s wifi bubbles (with an odd digression on “technology overload”). Cory Crow gives the editorial a serious treatment here, but we’re kind of partial
Matt Bramanti reports that Chronicle cartoonist Nick Anderson’s efforts to raise money for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists by auctioning his illustrations on e-bay aren’t drawing much interest. Strike that — as of this
Jennifer Ringwald (of Houston’s best cover band) posts this observation about Chron.com: Of 12 headlines on the Houston Chronicle homepage, 3 concerned strippers. Doesn’t that seem oddly balanced? This is actually preferable to yesterday, when
The Chron’s Carolyn Feibel put up a great blog post on the Houston Politics blog today. It’s not a long post — six paragraphs — but since the subject of the post is Carol Alvarado,
The Chron’s Rad Sallee notes there seems to be a bit of a problem with METRO’s East End light rail line: Metro board chairman David Wolff said Thursday that the roadblock is the former Houston
Various media outlets have reported on HPD’s recent success in reducing crime in the Denver Harbor area. Here’s an excerpt from the Chronicle‘s reporting on the topic: Crime has dropped almost 30 percent overall in
KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan reports on the scam artists who beg on Houston’s busy streets: On my way to work, I often pass by a veteran named James, who’s always in his wheelchair on North Shepherd.
Clarence Bradford, the Democratic candidate for District Attorney who has seemingly been in a witness protection program since announcing his candidacy, has been sighted! Chronicle diarist Lisa Falkenberg actually secured a quote from him on
Last week, I posted about the Houston Housing Authority, which is dead set on charging 61 tenants (or forcing them to pay third parties) about $3,400 each to regain access to their material possessions, now
The Chronicle‘s early coverage of Mayor White’s big wifi announcement today was disappointing: Houston is aiming to turn Earthlink’s lemons into the city’s lemonade. The company had to pay the city $5 million after defaulting