With Rick Casey finally away on sabbatical, the Chronicle runs a story today by new (temporary?) columnist Lisa Falkenberg. It’s one that should have the right people at the newspaper nodding their heads in approval.
Rad Sallee’s Q & A with Harris County’s new (appointed) judge Ed Emmett contained this depressing bit of info: Q: What projects do you especially want to push through? A: The completion of the Grand
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. The Chronicle still is Pulitzer-free, as no Chron Eyes were deemed worthy of the honor (although a Chicago Tribune series that raised questions about a death-penalty case
The Chronicle has published a long letter from former city attorney John Wildenthal, criticizing the White Administration’s legal efforts to dishonor an agreement with the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation in order to boost
Two news items this week gave METRO an opportunity to try to shape views via its $76,622 Sit and Spin blog. As Rad Sallee reported for the Chronicle, Richmond rail opponent Daphne Scarborough has filed
As he promised during his campaign, state senator and Houston talker Dan Patrick made news this week in the capital with his high-profile efforts to draw attention to the growth of state government. Various lefty
Via the Houston Business Journal we see that sales tax revenues are flowing in quite nicely: Houston received a sales tax allocation of $35.7 million for April, a 13.5 percent increase over April 2006. Houston’s
Several days ago, a reader called our attention to the latest foray by the Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists into international politics. In particular, this excerpt caught our reader’s eye: Zambia’s 11-million population has been decimated in
On the 6pm broadcast earlier, KTRK-13 had a nice farewell to longtime weatherman Ed Brandon, who closed out his career with the station tonight. KTRK has posted some additional material to its website. Brandon made
As expected, HISD’s board today voted unanimously in favor of a resolution that calls on the state legislature to end TAKS testing, and replace it with end-of-course exams. Here is a snippet from HISD’s press