Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 4 / Cool graphics from Texas Watchdog

IF YOU haven't yet seen Texas Watchdog's graphics on the human beings, companies, interest groups, and tracts of real estate that have friended mayoral candidates Gene Locke and Annise Parker (and been friended in return), go . . .

DECEMBER 2 / Chronicle editorialists did something . . .

. . . good.

UPDATED: OCTOBER 22 / Houston's pension problem

THE CHRONICLE ran a brilliant op-ed recently on Houston's coming pension tsunami.

SEPTEMBER 24 / REVISED: Drive, he said

THE MERRY PRANKSTERS on the Chronicle editorial board yukked it up today about a giant squid found in the Gulf of Mexico. 

JUNE 25 / The Texas Watchdog story you've been hearing about

HOUSTON MAYOR Bill White was informed nearly a year and a half ago that a nonprofit arm of the Houston Airport System was heavily involved in building and running airport facilities in several other countries, records show.

The rest of the story . . .

MAY 22 / Chronicle says something nice about the free market . . .

. . . in India.

[India's election, which removed communists from the governing coalition] frees the Congress Party to offer even more robust support of the country's innovative, sophisticated free-market economy.

MAY 20 / But does it ever screen "The Commitments?"

HOUSTON has a great Irish studies center, one of the best in the nation. Go here for details.

MAY 19 / Bloggers, like . . .

BLOGGERS, like lithion-ion batteries, sometimes need recharging. Cory Crow, proprietor of Lose an Eye, is taking a much-deserved break. He's one of Unca D's faves and, one hopes, yours as well.

APRIL 25 / Yellowstone Academy

THIS WEEK's good work is Yellowstone Academy, a fabulous private school for low-income children in Houston. Visit the Web site, write a check, hug your children.

MARCH 18 / New book on KIPP schools

THE KIPP schools started in Houston. A new book (Work Hard. Be Nice.) tells the story and explains the success. The secrets?