We appreciate Rad Sallee’s more objective reporting of Metro since Lucas Wall left, but Sallee’s MetroRail accident count is off: Unless the incidents suddenly stop, the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s 7.5-mile light rail line soon will
The Texas Education Agency has released school ratings information: The number of Academically Unacceptable schools, districts and charters rose this year as the state implemented tougher standards, but 27.3 percent of campuses and 14.5 percent
The Wortham Center’s orchestra pit is being rebuilt, fixing a design flaw that has provided 20 years worth of headaches for the HGO and the Houston Ballet: It was built in the mid 1980s exactly
In Delegation Watch, Samantha Levine reports that Republicans fared poorly in the “National Hispanic Leadership Agenda’s latest congressional scorecard, which looked at how lawmakers voted on issues that affect Hispanics.” One look at the press
The Houston-area blogosphere currently is engaged in an interesting, frank discussion of mass transit and light rail in the city. Tory Gattis got the latest round going with his post, A hypothesis on the deeper
After several weeks of stale Sunday editorial page content, James Howard Gibbons finally put together a Sunday page that is almost entirely fresh, and even contains a fair number of op-eds of local interest. Apparently,
The Chronicle‘s Anne Marie Kilday reported Friday on the graduation of 63 new officers from the Houston Police Academy: After 26 weeks of intensive training, 63 new police officers were sworn in at graduation ceremonies
Julie Mason’s White House Watch explores the nail-biting question of whether or not President Bush gave the press corps “the finger”: A second term may produce a certain nonchalance on the part of the incumbent,
The Chronicle editorial idealists think more Houstonians need to switch electricity providers: [O]ne factor keeping electricity rates in Texas higher than they need to be is the reluctance of consumers to shop around for the
We’ve long been pushing for streamed audio/video of Chronicle interviews with newsmakers. Reading excerpts of Matt Stiles interviewing Republican National Committee head Ken Mehlman and Democratic National Committee head Howard Dean is almost enough to