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4 Jan 2009, 4:47 am
Roberto Alonzo, D-Dallas, has filed HB 190, reports the Houston Chronicle's Texas Politics blog, which:would give certain first-time sex offenders the ability to petition the courts to shorter their registration periods, or to have their registration completely waived . [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 10:19 pm
There are two kinds of stories routinely published by the MSM around the New Year that both annoy me: Fluffy pieces written weeks earlier for publication while the reporter is gone, and stories that officialdom wants buried and thus releases around the slowest newsday of the year.An excellent example of the latter may be found in a Houston Chronicle story published yesterday revealing that traffic accidents in Houston increased after the installation of red light cameras… [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 4:59 am
MORE ON THAT Houston eminent-domain scandal. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 4:12 pm
The Houston Chronicle has an interesting story about an ongoing eminent domain case where the city of Houston is seeking to comdemn property for the benefit of a politically influential... [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 11:16 am
A new $2-million citizen surveillance system installed along the Tex-Mex border has yielded just one crime bust after about six weeks in operation -- three suspects who were allegedly caught hauling 540 pounds of marijuana over the border after someone spotted them online, according to the Houston Chronicle . [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 9:58 pm
More investment in the early years of an at-risk child's life could provide all taxpayers enormous savings.A Houston Chronicle editorial featuring CDF's message to the Legislature said investments in youth are a "sure thing" compared to the risky market, while pouring money into prisons, at this point, is like sinking your retirement savings into Wall Street's financial bubble after its already burst.Once youths enter the pipeline, the cost to taxpayers… [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 1:35 am
Instead, Governor Perry's pet initiatives are all PR or pork-related but don't seem designed to produce results.That goes double for the Governor's longstanding push to put webcams on the border, which the Houston Chronicle reported yesterday has so far been a security bust ("Border cameras worth the cost? [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 10:17 am
The Houston Chronicle recently reported on a case involving a fatal office building fire that killed three people. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 6:56 am
Gruesome death of toddler, and warning of other deaths or injuries, as reported in the news release of the American Association for Justice:The Houston Chronicle (12/19, Flood) reported, "The parents of a two-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a headstone at a funeral last week have filed a lawsuit against the Pearland cemetery," alleging that "the funeral home operator was negligent for not making sure that the headstones were more stable. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 6:55 am
Gruesome death of toddler, and warning of other deaths or injuries, as reported in the news release of the American Association for Justice:The Houston Chronicle (12/19, Flood) reported, "The parents of a two-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a headstone at a funeral last week have filed a lawsuit against the Pearland cemetery," alleging that "the funeral home operator was negligent for not making sure that the headstones were more stable. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 2:45 pm
A number of commentators, such a this item from the Houston Chronicle, suggest that there is irony in the increasing mixing of Hanukkah with Christmas since the holiday celebrates the victory of those who opposed the assimilationist force of Hellenism in the second century BCE. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 4:10 pm
Young presided over Toney's first trial.The Houston Chronicle carries the AP report, "Texas death row inmate's conviction overturned. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 6:26 am
As reported in the Houston Chronicle Great American Insurance Company is trying to avoid paying claims for the deaths of multiple people killed in a fire in an office building by arguing that their deaths were actually caused by smoke inhallation which is "pollution. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 6:01 am
Loren Steffy, the Houston Chronicle's business columnist, has been having a hard time lately. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 6:08 pm
(The Houston Chronicle had a story about some of those potential clients on Monday.) [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 3:25 am
Sentencing Law & Policy points to a Houston Chronicle article about an effort to only list the most dangerous sex offenders on registries. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 7:36 am
From the Houston Chronicle, the question was posed how the DNA could go untested: "That is a really good question," Assistant District Attorney Roe Wilson said. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 12:58 am
Lisa Sandberg's Houston Chronicle story today sticks up for a politically dicey group: registered sex offenders who say their sex with minors wasn't all that bad. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 5:32 pm
Slain Police Officer, Exonerated Convict By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The front page of the December 13, 2008 Houston Chronicle, in bold headlines, presented a stunning paradox: two tragic, conflicting faces of crime in Harris County. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 3:24 pm
Doc Berman points to an article ("Texas group fights sex crime's stigma," Dec. 14) by the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Sandberg about the group Texas Voices, made up of sex offenders, their families, and others who believe thatcommunity notification laws fail to protect the public, because they don't distinguish dangerous predators from otherwise harmless men and women who foolishly had sex with underage lovers, served their sentences and don't need a… [read post]
