Houston New Media

This is another of our occasional series of guest posts/essays on local topics of interest to us and our readers. Feel free to submit topical posts/essays for our consideration to bloggers-at-bloghouston.net. As with our usual blog posts, the view…

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The Chronicle’s Caucasian Think Tank has had an erratic few days (maybe that should be, "even more erratic than usual").
Yesterday, they came out in favor of Mayor Bill White’s Veterinarian Shakedown Revenue Stream.
That’s hardly surprising, since…

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Political candidates loan themselves money all the time.
Indeed, mayoral candidate Peter Brown has surged into the lead in Houston’s mayoral race largely based on media buys made possible by the large amounts of money he has loaned his campaign.
A…

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As readers have no doubt noticed, we’ve made some changes at the little blog.
Anne Linehan and I have decided that we’re going to move forward with shorter, more frequent posts with more links, less blockquoting, and maybe a little more attitude.
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Susan Carroll of the Houston Chronicle reports:
The Houston Police Department will not participate in a controversial immigration screening program, federal officials said on Friday, ending a months-long saga over the city’s plans.
Immigrations an…

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A couple of weeks ago, Mayor Bill White admitted he was concerned about a backlog at the HPD crime lab that has existed for years.
Tonight, KTRK-13′s Andy Cerota reports that crime lab officials have been working hard to secure outside help to cle…

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Yesterday, the Chron ran one of its most amusing corrections since the latest recipe debacle:
A story about funding for a segment of the Grand Parkway on Page B1 Saturday misspelled the name of the chair of the Citizens Transportation Coalition, a…

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