THE CURRENT ISSUE of Texas Monthly -- the one with the Aggie bonfire on the cover -- tells the story of Molly Ivins's tenure as an intern at the Chronicle in the late 1960s.
Continue reading "NOVEMBER 9 / Rememberin' Miss Molly " »
THE SEPTEMBER/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review ("Strong Press, Strong Democracy") includes a twelve-page supplement, "How Will Comprehensive Reform Improve Health Care for Americans?"
Continue reading "NOVEMBER 5 / Unca reads CJR so you don't have to " »
WHY ARE Americans fleeing California and other high-tax states for Texas and other low-tax states?
Conservative researchers' technical explanation for this phenomenon is: . . .
Continue reading "NOVEMBER 3 / More California-bashing for the Chronicle to ignore" »
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE has lost another 64,000 in daily circulation.
Continue reading "OCTOBER 26 / Chronicle circulation tanks again" »
THE CHRONICLE, which ordinarily travels to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or thereabouts to find candidates for canonization as saints of the high church of the left, today said an ardent and reverential goodbye to homegrown liberal William Wayne Justice -- the Tyler federal judge who never met a judicial mandate he didn't like.
Continue reading "OCTOBER 20 / Whims of the ballot box" »
THE CHRONICLE, traditionally agnostic toward the mythical Social Security surplus, took sides Monday. And it was the right side.
Continue reading "OCTOBER 13 / The Chronicle gets Social Security right" »
MORE from our rural hometown -- mine by birth, yours by adoption -- from Garrison in the News, September 24, 2009:
Continue reading "OCTOBER 9 / Garrison in the News" »
