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Chron.com wipes the big-newspaper field in blogging

March 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen (whose PressThink blog is popular among alt-media enthusiasts like ourselves) and a collection of journalism students just completed a study of blogging by the nation’s 100-largest newspapers. Rosen’s

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TMC: Metro needs to fix "stray current" problem

March 2, 2006 Anne Linehan

Despite Metro’s best (and continuous) efforts to downplay whatever-in-the-heck is going on underneath the Danger Train, the issue of “stray current” will not go away: Electrical current escaping from the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s light rail

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Transit backbone still suffering from osteoporosis (updated)

March 1, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Main Street light rail system, METRO’s so-called “transit backbone,” is still facing service disruptions caused by a water main break. KHOU-11’s news blog has the details: The break washed out support under the tracks

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New Orleans added to Chron's metro/state coverage

March 1, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle dispatched its featured metro/state editorialist and gossip columnist to New Orleans, and he posted a column about Mardi Gras today. Because Mardi Gras in New Orleans is all about Houston Texas err, never

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Oh those Chron headline writers

March 1, 2006 Kevin Whited

Here’s a headline from a staff editorial in the Chronicle today: Snow job: Poor behavior and performance at Turin indicates a need for new attitude — and leadership — in 2010. It’s impressive when a

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Alvarado: Oh all right, I'll take responsibility…but it's still not my fault

March 1, 2006 Anne Linehan

Embattled Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado’s PR team has seemingly convinced her that playing the victim is not the way to go, if she wants to survive politically. So, in an about-face, she has written

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They are killing trees to print these editorials (cont'd)

February 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

Still nothing out of the Editorial LiveJournalists/Constitution Rewriters about Chief Hurtt’s surveillance camera plan; however, the Chron‘s new Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘toonist has weighed in — in favor of the plan. The editorial board doesn’t disappoint,

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The limitations of light rail

February 28, 2006 Anne Linehan

If a water main break has damaged a road, a car can find a way around it. A bus can find a way around it. Cars and buses are flexible. Light rail is not. But

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Bonusgate scandal stays in the news

February 28, 2006 Kevin Whited

The new communications team advising embattled Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado can’t be happy with today’s publicity. Then again, they helped generate some of it by insisting on the following correction in today’s Chronicle: In

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Friedman testifies for (twice) convicted murderer

February 28, 2006 Kevin Whited

Kinky Friedman’s foray into alternative marketing political campaign took an odd turn today, as Friedman testified in the sentencing phase of the trial of (twice) convicted murderer Max Soffar: Prosecutor Lyn McClellan objected throughout the

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