Before the City Council runoff election, the Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack wrote an important column on SEIU’s possibly illegal efforts to influence the At Large position 2 race between Jay Aiyer and Sue Lovell. Mack followed
Back at the start of the month, the blog voice of Brazosport (Banjo Jones) alerted his readers to the fact that his local newspaper had published a fabricated account of a hard-luck kid by a
After Chronicle reader representative James Campbell’s blunt, critical blog post on his newspaper’s decision to bury its coverage of the recent elections in Iraq on page A23, we thought perhaps Campbell would develop that blog
The Chronicle runs a Bill Murphy story today on Astrodome Redevelopment Co.’s proposals to turn the Astrodome into an upscale convention center. The story is, on the whole, optimistic about the project, with no quotes
Yesterday, the New York Daily News reported that Houston Texans owner Bob McNair tried to talk Jimmy Johnson into taking over the Texans, but Johnson turned him down: Jimmy Johnson, always a hot name for
Due to the demands of recent events, two Houston-area groups are in need of financial assistance. First is the Houston Food Bank: The Houston Food Bank, along with many other social service organizations, is suffering
Banjo Jones takes note of the fact that the Chronicle seems to have lost a great deal of talent recently: A former Houston Chronicle news gal, Jennifer Sizemore, has been named the head of MSNBC.COM.
Chronicle reader representative James Campbell is unusually, bluntly critical of his newspaper today: We blew it on the story about the elections in Iraq. Instead of playing the story about how many Iraqis voted on
The Houston Business Journal‘s Allison Wollam reports that Cabo and Schlotzky’s are both planning to expand in Houston after several years of contraction forced by bankruptcy: A pair of restaurant chains have rebounded from bankruptcy
Jack Williams of KUHF-88.7 covers the problem local school districts are having keeping up with the financial demands of educating New Orleans students: Houston-area school districts are pleading with lawmakers in Washington to begin paying-off