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23 May 2008, 11:35 am
The Houston Chronicle reports: A federal judge sided with the Texas Democratic Party on Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Latino voter advocates who said the party's method for apportioning presidential delegates is discriminatory. [read post]
22 May 2008, 11:42 am
" Update: The Houston Chronicle provides a news update headlined "Appeals court rules state had no right to seize sect kids. [read post]
22 May 2008, 8:05 am
In today's Houston Chronicle, Harvey Rice reports, "Judge to allow dead witness's testimony. [read post]
22 May 2008, 6:01 am
"MORE: Thanks to a reader for providing this link to the opinion.SEE ALSO: coverage from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dahlia Lithwick at Slate, the Deseret News, and the Houston Chronicle (also here).AND MORE: Footnote 11 to the opinion rocks! [read post]
21 May 2008, 10:21 pm
Here are reports from the NYT, the Houston Chronicle, Reuters and the AP. [read post]
21 May 2008, 10:16 am
The Houston Chronicle reports today: Apple started selling computer mice under the name “Mighty Mouse” more than a year after Man & Machine Inc. began selling waterproof and chemical-resistant computer [...] [read post]
21 May 2008, 8:44 am
The Houston Chronicle reported that: It sounded like a foolproof recipe for a death sentence: an admired and respected police officer shot in the back by an illegal immigrant whose history included criminal convictions for drunken driving and indecency with a child as well as deportation. [read post]
20 May 2008, 3:02 pm
"State high court justice's wife pleads not guilty in arson case": The Houston Chronicle provides this news update. [read post]
20 May 2008, 2:27 pm
Economic Impacts of Mass Deportations The Houston Chronicle reports on a study that concluded that eliminating undocumented immigrants would cripple the national economy. [read post]
19 May 2008, 11:45 pm
Tuesday's Houston Chronicle reports that family members visiting children in foster care may not mention Jeffs, and children may not have copies of the Book of Mormon if they have Jeffs picture or signature in them. [read post]
16 May 2008, 11:38 pm
. ''My client told the CPS worker that she did not want to talk to her without an attorney,'' one attorney told the Houston Chronicle, ''She was told that she wasn't entitled to an attorney because it was a civil matter.''Terry McDonald, a criminal defense attorney and law professor at St. [read post]
16 May 2008, 2:55 pm
That would be Flood, whose hard-charging coverage of the Enron scandal for the Houston Chronicle and her decades as a legal reporter make her nobody's fool. [read post]
16 May 2008, 1:47 am
One of the main criticisms of the Texas Youth Commission's current structure has been the location of facilities in rural locales, making it hard to hire staff, nearly impossible to find specialized services, requiring overuse of "telemedicine" instead of on-site doctors, and boosting transportation costs during times of high gas prices.Yesterday in the Houston Chronicle, columnist Lisa Falkenberg suggested another problem with placing TYC facilities in rural areas:… [read post]
15 May 2008, 9:39 pm
Army Corps of Engineers News Orleans Levee Reconstruction Project Houston Chronicle - Court Upholds Punishment for Ex-Reliant Trader DOJ - Oregon Man Pleads Guilty... [read post]
14 May 2008, 11:59 am
America has reached the point, sadly, where we treat prisons, jails and youth detention as substitutes for mental health treatment or else the only place where indigent people can access mental health care.For adults the issues can be more complex, but for kids they're pretty simple: Criminalizing mental health problems only makes sense from a bureaucratic perspective (to get the person access to treatment), not from any viable theory of justice anyone could possibly describe.Last week the… [read post]
13 May 2008, 11:01 pm
Well, based on this Glenn Davis/Chronicle column, it looks as if the Chronicle took me up on my suggestion. [read post]
11 May 2008, 3:28 am
This Mother's Day, take a moment to think about the mothers and kids from the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado who've been separated from each other by the state of Texas, and perhaps give a prayer that, by Father's Day, CPS has separated any actually allegedly abused kids from those where the state just dislikes their parents' religion, and returned the rest to their families, as about 75% of Grits readers appear to favor in the ongoing reader poll.Otherwise, Happy Mothers Day to FLDS… [read post]
8 May 2008, 11:24 pm
Earlier this week Grits placed the blame for Harris County jail overcrowding at the feet of their elected officials, especially local judges, and an editorial this morning in the Houston Chronicle agreed, concluding:A large part of the jail overcrowding problem resides with the elected judges here. [read post]
8 May 2008, 11:01 pm
But this Chronicle article takes the cake in terms of suspending reality. [read post]
8 May 2008, 10:36 am
There is room for consensus on some of these questions, if participants coming at the topic from different angles can each set aside their parochialism and actually look for solutions instead of ways to block them.UPDATE: See more coverage from AP , The Houston Chronicle, and the Fort Worth Star Telegram.BLOGVERSATION: Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice is offended on my behalf that Texas bloggers don't qualify for capitol press passes, lamenting "the fact that he types… [read post]
