Ken Paxton sure is in the news a lot lately. Sadly for him and his supporters, not for doing his elected job so much as running afoul of the system of justice. (I leave it to you to decide on your own whether the charges are valid or not)
Speaking of which, Pulitzer Prize giftee, Lisa Falkenberg weighs in with something about towels and her former HS graduation backdrop. Of course she did.
Garnet Coleman and the alleged racist traffic stop that wasn't. Turns out dash-cam video can unearth political jiggery-pokery as well as police malfeasance.
In Spieler's world, adjusting bus routes to help 0.03% (What is that about 10 people?) of riders is a worthy and noble cause. Job done here, on to fun things like Metrorail pub crawls, weddings and figuring out how to keep the poor and unwashed off of Houston's modern, sleek transit plaything.
Mayor Annise would like for you to please remember that HER Ordinance is NOT her signature issue. This despite the fact that she has termed it 'personal' and has put the more pressing issue of pension reform (and city finances) on the back burner to help push it through.
Things you won't see on ChronBlog: Why do people not want Tesla cars? Of course, it's hard to get real science reporting when the "science" reporter is too busy penning love letters to Elon Musk, dabbling at being a weatherman without a degree in meteorology and trying to ensure that everyone is convinced we are living on a superheated rock that's in danger of melting our faces off. Other than that.....Science!!!
The City of Houston vs. Black Churches? - Of course, Parker says that the Houston Housing Authority is NOT the City of Houston. Never mind that she appointed the current head of the organization. (To be fair, in Parker's world she ended homelessness in Houston and fixed the city's currently crumbling infrastructure so there's that)
Any 'clean power' plan that downgrades the focus on natural gas is not, in any way, about 'clean' power. - It's about damaging a certain class of political donor who tends to give the majority of their money to the other side.
In reality, ALL news video is "highly edited" to make things more shocking. - What the media is not saying is that, unlike say....60 Minutes, the group that ran the stings on Planned Parenthood also released the unedited, raw footage. This proves the fact that in politics, it's not what's real but what you can make the uninformed THINK is real.
And finally....perhaps the best insight into the idiocy of local political thinking that you will ever find, courtesy of the Chron's Grey Matters blog-type thingy....
a city council member has informed him that she is trying to find a way to amend the ordinance so that he can keep his kites on display. His solution? "Businesses whose majority of sales come from kites would be exempt."
*drops mike*
