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Equal time for endorsements?

October 5, 2004 Kevin Whited

Last week, Anne Linehan poked fun at the Chronicle for displaying its killer journalistic instincts in going after a big story: the Crawford, TX Lone Star Iconoclast‘s endorsement of Senator John Kerry for President. While

Marvin Zindler fulfills an unusual request

October 5, 2004 Kevin Whited

Marvin Zindler is one of those media personalities who just can’t be explained to non-Houstonians. He enjoyed momentary fame outside of town when his character was played by Dom Deluise in The Best Little Whorehouse

MeMo's feeling blue

October 5, 2004 Anne Linehan

Yes, we poke fun at MeMo, but MeMo earns all that poking by writing columns like yesterday’s: As previously noted, MeMo went off for a few days to fight Worldwide Torpor. But as every superhero

Jim Jones profiles Joel Osteen

October 4, 2004 Kevin Whited

Jim Jones profiles Lakewood Church’s Joel Osteen in an AP article that quite a few publications have picked up: The Rev. Joel Osteen is a rising star among America’s TV evangelists. He is the pastor

Chronicle reader rep takes on trash

October 4, 2004 Kevin Whited

Houston Chronicle reader representative James T. Campbell gets rare column space today for an article on… a proposed Fondren Southwest trash transfer station? No doubt, the trash transfer station is an important issue to folks

Register to vote

October 4, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Chronicle has an editorial reminding readers that today is the last day to register to vote for the presidential election. Pretty straightforward, one would think, but the editors couldn’t miss this opportunity: The outcome

GPS, EZ Tags, Transtar, and other concerns

October 4, 2004 Kevin Whited

Lucas Wall penned a column for the Chronicle today discussing research by transportation officials from several states (including Texas) on alternative funding mechanisms for the gasoline tax. The notion is that the gasoline tax might

Earth to the Chronicle

October 3, 2004 Anne Linehan

CBS News points out something interesting in an online story (we’ll assume the story isn’t based on fake documents) about the debate last Thursday: But, with the exception of Mr. Bush’s essentially hometown newspaper, the

Go 'Stros!

October 3, 2004 Kevin Whited

How about those Astros? They charged into the playoffs today after most everyone — this blogger included — had given them up for dead a couple of months ago. The usual staid analysis from the

The Grand Parkway

October 3, 2004 Anne Linehan

The Grand Parkway has turned into a grand brouhaha, in north Harris County, as opponents of the segment slated to be built through Spring fear it will be fast-tracked. The Chronicle reports on a meeting