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Chronicle: Let murderers live, but allow innocents to die

March 8, 2005 Anne Linehan

It’s a highly inconsistent editorial board that would celebrate the end of death sentences for convicted murderers, but complain that innocents who have no voice are not being put to death faster. And yet, that

Landry's had a roaring fourth quarter

March 8, 2005 Anne Linehan

Tilman Fertitta should be happy with fourth quarter results for Landry’s Restaurants: Casual dining and seafood restaurant chain Landry’s Restaurants Inc. said Tuesday that fourth-quarter profits rose to $12.3 million, or 47 cents per share,

Chicago likes SAFEclear

March 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

This Chicago Tribune article says that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is looking to Houston’s SAFEclear program as a model for how to address Chicago’s traffic woes: Daley wants to implement quick-response towing operations–deploying them even

KHOU news ratings success

March 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

Another ratings period has ended, and Laurence Simon notes that KHOU-11 news has apparently passed longtime leader KTRK-13 in most time slots (here and here). At the moment, Belo’s website has no indication of KHOU’s

AP story neglects Banjo Jones

March 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

Over the weekend, the Chronicle posted an AP article on blog-related firings to its website. The article makes no mention of our friend Banjo Jones, whose fine blog got him fired by the Chronicle early

Is the Chronicle going to push for a Houston Parking Authority?

March 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

Here are the first paragraph and the last paragraph from today’s Move It! column. See if red flags start flying for you: Last week’s debacle with commercial vehicle loading zones has reinforced my view that

Harsher smoking ban jeopardizes convention business

March 7, 2005 Anne Linehan

KPRC-2 is reporting that if City Council passes a harsher smoking ban than what Mayor White has proposed, the city could lose some big business: Sources told Local 2 Monday that if the ban passes,

More than money is needed to fix three HISD schools

March 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

It is a given, in liberal/media circles, that public education ills could be fixed if the American public would quit being so stingy and give more money to schools. So we can only imagine the

News and opinion all the same to Robison

March 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Last week, Chronicle bureau chief Clay Robison penned his usual left-leaning weekend editorial, a strange practice for someone who is supposed to oversee objective news coverage from an entire bureau the rest of the week.

Chronicle: Employees were FIRED! No, wait…take that back

March 6, 2005 Anne Linehan

Yesterday, the Chronicle ran a story headlined, “Fired workers blast Aramark.” Today on page A2, in a little box, midpage, is this correction: Four Houston Independent School District cafeteria managers have received letters from their