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Texas AG asked to weigh-in on red light cameras (updated)

January 10, 2006 Anne Linehan

Is Houston one of the Texas cities requesting permission to put red light cameras on state roads? The Texas Department of Transportation has asked Attorney General Greg Abbott to decide whether the agency can install

Slampo tries to figure out a mysterious feud

January 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Edward Hegstrom offered up this bit of storytelling today: His financial problems have fanned a simmering feud in the Pakistani community that pits him against City Councilman M.J. Khan. Critics of Bombaywala make

Rodeo announces entertainment lineup

January 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo announced their schedule of artists today. It’s a decent mix of Nashville Country, Texas/Americana, and assorted categories this time around. The full lineup is here. UPDATE: For those of

Who needs editors when you have a Pulitzer cartoonist?

January 9, 2006 Kevin Whited

Chronicle NFL writer John McClain seems downright giddy with his speculation today: Broncos offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak impressed the Texans so much in his interview at Denver last week that he has become the heavy

Chron: erroneous miner story was a "pardonable sin"

January 9, 2006 Anne Linehan

Yesterday Chronicle Reader Representative James Campbell explained how the paper’s goofed-up miner story was most certainly a forgivable error: But if there is such a thing as a pardonable news media sin, this story offers

HPD crime lab back in the news

January 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

We’ve previously noted the deficiencies in the Houston Chronicle‘s reporting and editorializing on the Bromwich investigation into the HPD crime lab, so it’s no surprise that the newspaper’s recent coverage of the Fourth Bromwich report

More on Chron's new cartoonist

January 8, 2006 Anne Linehan

The Chron wants that P-word added to its stable so bad: Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Nick Anderson had joined the editorial page staff of the Houston Chronicle. Anderson was recognized as the best political cartoonist

Chron politics columnist not impressed with inaugural

January 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

In her most recent politics column for the Chronicle, Kristen Mack almost seemed to be channelling blogHOUSTON: MAYOR Bill White and the City Council began their new terms in a ceremony this week at the

Does anybody edit the recipe section?

January 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

Running erroneous copy on the miners was a bad enough blunder, but lately the Houston Chronicle has been making other blunders that have the potential to upset adventurous culinary types among their readership. From recent

A truly quotidian editorial on interest-group money and national politics

January 8, 2006 Kevin Whited

On Friday, the Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists deemed “truly shocking” the interplay of interest-group money and politics on Capitol Hill, as related to the Abramoff scandal. As Sedosi noted, their complaints are mostly true, but hardly