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KTRK picks up sleeping Metro cop story

December 8, 2004 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Miya Shay reports tonight on a photo of a sleeping Metro police officer that was featured on Dan Patrick’s Lone Star Times a few days ago. It’s an interesting case of citizen activism and

Chron columnist wants vasectomies for 12-year-old boys

December 8, 2004 Anne Linehan

Today, the Chronicle‘s sanctimonious Rick Casey has a particularly nasty and compassionless column about Calvin Murphy: Now I should feel sympathy for Murphy, that his reputation is forever tarnished by the worst sort of false

Lee Brown: the legacy continues to grow

December 8, 2004 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Mike Snyder reports the following bad news about a Houston “affordable housing” program: City officials are struggling to limit financial losses and protect tenants’ rent restrictions after the top recipient of the city’s

NASA and Rep. DeLay

December 7, 2004 Anne Linehan

Over at Houston’s Clear Thinkers, Tom Kirkendall notes a Washington Post story from yesterday about Rep. Tom DeLay and his impact on NASA’s budget: NASA was identified as a major sticking point when Senate and

Richard Justice confounded by his two hands

December 7, 2004 Kevin Whited

Chronicle sports columnist Richard Justice penned a typical “two-handed” column today. On the one hand, he had this to say about Texas Longhorns football coach Mack Brown: I think the notion he can’t win a

CenterPoint is reclaiming easement property

December 7, 2004 Anne Linehan

CenterPoint Energy has started reclaiming easement property from homeowners who had been maintaining and using the property for years: A few months ago, CenterPoint Energy told homeowners throughout the Houston area that it would begin

Dalati will join Pallilo at new sports talk station

December 7, 2004 Kevin Whited

David Barron reported earlier this week that KILT-610 personality David Dalati will be making the jump to the new sports talk station (KBME-790) that will be launching in a couple of weeks. Dalati will apparently

Chron recycles "olds" from the DMN

December 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

We know Chronicle columnist Rick Casey has had a little problem in the past with giving proper attribution when he lifts article ideas (and even exact phrases) from other newspapers. At least Lucas Wall is

Shaking up public education

December 6, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has a story on what looks to be a hot topic in the upcoming state legislature session — school vouchers — and the proposed voucher plan is summed up in the “Resource” box

Food and drink roundup (12-06-2004 edition)

December 6, 2004 Kevin Whited

We’re still a little behind on the food and drink articles from the last week, which was another fairly busy one for the city’s various reviewers and writers. Robb Walsh did double duty, with a