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Chron explains last week's embarrassing editorial

March 12, 2006 Anne Linehan

Chron Reader Rep. James Campbell has a column in today’s Outlook section on that embarrassing editorial oops from last Sunday. He also wrote a blog post about it last week and the comments are quite

City's credit rating outlook downgraded

March 12, 2006 Kevin Whited

dBusinessnews Austin reports that Houston’s credit outlook has been downgraded: Fitch assigns an ‘AA-‘ rating to the $63.8 million taxable pension obligation bonds, series 2006A; $23.2 million public improvement refunding bonds, series 2006B; and $3.5

Chron's Mason interviewed in National Journal Hotline

March 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

The National Journal’s Hotline just ran an interview with Chronicle White House correspondent Julie Mason. The Hotline is subscriber-only, but here’s a brief, fair-use excerpt of the interview: What is your favorite book and why?

Covering the news important to journalists

March 11, 2006 Kevin Whited

Today, the Chronicle is back to pushing its favorite special-interest legislation (of course they don’t call it that — special interests are things that other groups want but that the Chronicle executive editorial leadership opposes).

A dented file cabinet — Bonusgate intrigue?

March 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

I am wondering if this story about a dented city council file cabinet: Damage to a locked cabinet containing documents from the Office of Mayor Pro Tem, which is at the center of a payroll-padding

Houston's hurricane response leads to online water bill payment

March 9, 2006 Anne Linehan

Rich Connelly found a letter from Mayor White in his latest water bill that explains the city’s new online payment system is courtesy of the city’s generous outreach to Katrina evacuees…or something like that: Houstonians

Were "values" the deciding factor in DeLay/Patrick victories?

March 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran an editorial on the DeLay/Patrick Republican primary victories that reads more like two editorials. The first half of the editorial is a fairly straightforward explanation of why the two candidates won their

An erratic day for local radio news/commentary

March 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRH-740 continues to report on the Dubai Ports World deal, and for some reason has been stating that the now-scuttled deal would have turned over security at some ports to a company owned by the

Law-and-order Republican needs to take down bandit signs

March 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

Now that Linda Storey has narrowly won her Republican primary race against incumbent Judge Lynn-Bradshaw Hull, perhaps she could tell her supporters to go take down the illegal, obnoxious bandit campaign signs that are stapled

Bonusgate investigation expands; Editorial LiveJournalists dismayed?

March 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller is reporting that the OIG’s investigation has been expanded to other City Council offices, and that the four Mayor Pro Tem employees in question have been fired. The link includes an audio