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SLAMPO FOLLOWS UP on some recent BH forum discussion with a fun and informative media-criticism post. As it turns out, the Chronicle‘s main staff Dynamo cheerleader, Bernardo Fallas, has a sister who happens to work

SOMETIMES, messages of 140 characters or less really DO say quite a bit (like this 30 December tweet from the “Content director of chron.com, Houston Chronicle’s news Web site”): Going out on New Year’s Eve

THIS is some heavy-duty cheerleading. The next Chron transportation reporter is going to have some mighty big pom-poms to fill. Or something like that.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HOUSTON TEXANS, for the first winning season ever. And congratulations to the fans, who made enough nosie at the end to help seal the deal against the Pats’ backup quarterback.

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reports that carpetbagger councilmember-elect Al Hoang’s “extra” homestead exemption is valid (this year). As for all the other concerns raised about Hoang’s campaign-finance disclosures and residency, well….

IN A FITTING END TO HIS TERM, Mayor Bill White announced the formation of a commission to recommend changes to (but not elimination of) the city’s term limits: White, in announcing the commission, said he

ANTI DEATH PENALTY ACTIVISM POSING AS JOURNALISM may have taken a hit at the Chronicle due to layoffs and a decline in death-penalty sentences (relative to Bexar and Tarrant counties), but it’s good to see

MICHAEL REED follows up his earlier reporting on METRO’s coming light-rail mobility mess on Post Oak. Remember after Reed’s earlier reporting when METRO’s army of PR spinners assured that the organization was working closely with

SLAMPO LAUNCHES his Bob Stein Watch (so the rest of us are saved the trouble of tracking when the pro journalists at the Chron and elsewhere get lazy and tap an easy quote from Houston’s

THE END OF THE YEAR does bring news that transportation reporter Carolyn Feibel will be departing the Chronicle. We had thought her last column might offer readers yet more information about personalized license plates (covered