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20 Dec 2015, 12:28 pm
Perry Looking for Missing WWII Airmen Earlier in 2014, Bradley’s loyal supporter Ricky Perry visited the country on what Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg called a “privately funded mission to search for missing World War II airmen. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 12:09 pm
")Houston Chronicle: Four of the nine dead from the Waco biker shootout were killed by police snipers with long guns. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 9:06 pm
“Insurer cutbacks squeeze patients out of high-end care” [Houston Chronicle] “Deflate Drug Prices by Reforming the FDA” [Richard Morrison, CEI, thanks for quote] Penny wise: Obama plan would penalize doctors who recommend routine prostate cancer tests for older men [WSJ, Betsy McCaughey/New York Post] “Clearly, it would take an extraordinarily overbearing [British] state to move [sugar] consumption anywhere close to this target. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 8:49 am
The Houston Chronicle's story on the ruling states that the HCDA Office's position on the ruling is that it's wrong, wrong, wrong, and that they will appeal. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 8:30 am
New juvie diversion programs starting upTexas counties will soon begin diverting more juvenile defendants "from problem-plagued remote, state-run lockups into less costly community-based treatment and rehabilitation programs" closer to home which "produce better outcomes," reported Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 5:00 am
Kudos to Grits contributing writer Amanda Woog; the Houston Chronicle picked up her story from this post about cities in Texas with the most police shootings, which itself elaborated on this excellent article from the UK Guardian.Let me repeat for the record that Grits couldn't be more proud of the Wooginator's work on the Texas police shootings database. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 6:44 am
(See related Grits coverage.)The Houston Chronicle examined records surrounding suicides at the Harris County Jail: "In thousands of pages of autopsy reports and internal disciplinary reports, the Chronicle found 35 instances in which jailers skipped required cell checks or faked records to hide skipping them, a pattern that experts called a serious problem at county jails statewide. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 5:59 am
This year droughts crippled California and heat waves claimed the lives of hundreds in India and Pakistan. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 12:43 pm
(The Houston Chronicle) Sports Bar Security Lapse? [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 4:42 am
All three are employees of LaSalle Corrections, which operates the Harwell Center.Surveillance video showed that Crittenden, Walker and Simpson all lied about conducting headcounts in N-Wing in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, according to affidavits filed in the case.So, if you watch, folks are dying in Texas' jails under questionable circumstances with regularity and for the most part, it seldom makes more than a blip on the local news.On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle… [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 9:49 am
Recent months have seen a dramatic uptick in the number of children trying to trek across Texas' southern border alone, according to new data from the U.S. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 8:12 am
Recently, the Houston Chronicle reported on how 11 teenagers and a 21-year-old were accused of taking part ... [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 10:40 am
Just last year the Houston Chronicle reported that Kyle Janek, the Executive Commissioner of the HHSC appointed a “special assistant” to audit the state’s Medicaid anti-fraud program. [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 4:05 am
As reported by KPRC News and the Houston Chronicle, Christian author Madeline Kirksey was fired from her Children's Lighthouse Learning Center position after she refused to comply with the instructions of the girl's male same-sex parents who said that the child, who had enrolled at the beginning of the year as a girl, should now be treated as a boy and called by a new masculine name. [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 3:00 am
Last week, she broke the news on Grits, and the Houston Chronicle followed up Nov. 6 with an item titled, "DPS, other police agencies failing to report officer-involved shootings. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 6:14 am
Voter ApprovalSan Francisco Chronicle – Kevin Fagan | Published: 11/3/2015 Proposition C, which was approved by San Francisco voters on November 3, will require individuals or groups to register as lobbyists if they spend more than $2,500 in a month to encourage others to lobby city officials directly. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 8:30 am
Reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike Glenn (Oct. 30):Daylight saving time will come to an end at 2 a.m. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 7:34 am
(The rulings interpret the version of the statute before this spring's changes.)The Houston Chronicle's Cindy Horswell had by far the best coverage of the ruling (Oct. 28). [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 7:02 am
Houston is closing a dangerous low-income apartment run by a slumlord who they've sued over "atrocious living conditions. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 8:09 am
One notices they linked to all the prior MSM coverage on the issue but not the Grits posts which broke the story and provided more detail than mainstream news sources.Few police officers feloniously killed, assaults on cops downReported the Houston Chronicle, "Officer deaths have fluctuated significantly but generally have trended downward during the past century. [read post]
