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IT’S MLK DAY in Houston, and that means it’s time to turn over the commentary on Houston’s competing MLK Day parades to Laurence Simon.

LAST WEEK, the Chron predictably covered the OUTRAGE from an Obama Administration official that the State of Texas is allegedly so stingy with its food stamp program. Lefty bloggers/editorialists piled on afterwards, just as predictably.

THE LATEST IN THE CHRON’S SERIES of reporting for and of the newspaper’s niche education sources focuses on… how university presidents in the state of Texas are weathering the recession. Seriously. As we asked last

Back when Klein ISD was promoting an ill-conceived bond proposal that included plans to build a new high school, temporarily relocate Klein High School to the new campus, then demo Klein High and rebuild it,

TEXAS LIBERAL offers Mayor Annise Parker some good tips on transition team transparency.

THE WHITE HOUSE apparently didn’t like the fact that President Obama’s phone call congratulating Mayor-elect Parker went public. Craig Malisow has the details.

BLOGHOUSTON FRIEND AND WEST U POL GEORGE BOEHME lands a small blow for open government, concluding as follows: “If you want to make your decisions in private, don’t run for public office.” Agreed!

CONGRATULATIONS TO KHOU-11’S MARK GREENBLATT, whose reporting on the Texas National Guard has won a duPont award.

THIS ASSESSMENT appears towards the end of a Chron story on Mayor Parker’s transition team: Councilwoman Jolanda Jones praised Parker for putting community leaders and “regular” citizens on the committees, noting it was a continuation

THREE YEARS AGO, the Chron was doing its part to cheer on the Houston Texans’ backing of the irrelevant Texas Bowl, and their dream of becoming “one of those big-time bowls everybody’s talking about….” Tom