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19 May 2013, 8:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(The last time was in 2005.)At the Houston Chronicle's Baker Institute blog, see a strong article by Gilbert Garcia titled, "How the war on drugs has infringed on US civil liberties." [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:00 am by Peter Tillers
See Lisa Cornwell (AP reporter), Ohioan to appeal conviction in 'dying blinks' case Houston Chronicle (May 17, 2013). [read post]
12 May 2013, 4:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But if we can't know who approved (read: rubber stamped) prosecution decisions and 97% of cases end in plea bargains, it become increasingly difficult to tell if there's any meat in the sandwich at all.Conservative blogger Big Jolly then took the matter to the next level, describing important public-interest stories from the Denton Record Chronicle (pdf) and the Houston Chronicle which would not have been possible if Sen. [read post]
10 May 2013, 11:10 am by Donn Zaretsky
Houston Chronicle:  Artists behind iconic Houston sculpture sue Honda over ad.Idea or expression? [read post]
9 May 2013, 1:59 pm by admin
The following article is taken from the Houston Chronicle regarding the devastation experienced from the massive explosion in the city of West between Waco and Hillsboro, Texas. [read post]
8 May 2013, 5:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston Chronicle today published an op ed I wrote in opposition to legislation expanding authority of large Texas police departments to perform wiretapping. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 8:00 am
A recent editorial in the Houston Chronicle makes a good point: we should no longer think of "oil and gas" together. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 7:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Check out a pair of op eds in the Houston Chronicle published today about solitary confinement from a former Texas Department of Justice general counsel Steve Martin and exoneree Anthony Graves, who spent nearly two decades on death row in "administrative segregation," as Texas euphemistically calls it:Martin: Long-term segregation fails to solve mental illness issueGraves: Solitary confinement brings no benefit to prison inmatesMartin made, essentially, a cost-benefit argument:… [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 9:02 am by Jim Walker
The Houston Chronicle has an interesting article about five passengers arrested in Galveston when a cruise ship returned to port. [read post]
19 Apr 2013, 9:00 am by Jeff Foust
” Smith’s skepticism about NASA’s current direction in human spaceflight carried over to an op-ed he wrote in Thursday’s issue of the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
16 Apr 2013, 12:22 am by Paul Caron
Inside Higher Ed: Prof Charged With Threat Over His Tenure Case: Authorities have charged Lei Wu, an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, with making a "terroristic threat" based on statements he made to a colleague, The Houston Chronicle reported. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 10:51 am by Ken
Those facts have been covered by the Houston Chronicle, and are supported by, for instance, quotes from Dr. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 8:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See also excellent Houston Chronicle coverage of last session's version.)In the past, I've compared the philosophy behind this bill to the Vichy policeman in the movie Casa Blanca who declared, "Round up the usual suspects!" [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 11:26 pm by James Andrews
” According to the Houston Chronicle, on April 3, U.S. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Usually "judicial economy" is a factor that works in the prosecution's favor; in this case it's worked the other way.The report chronicles Salvador's many problems, and a few of his strengths, as a crime lab employee, which are well-detailed in the AP account. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 12:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There was an op ed in the Houston Chronicle last week in support. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 12:27 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That dubious point was rebutted well enough at the hearings by EFF-Austin board member Matt Henry (see his column in the Houston Chronicle) who compared the situation to US v. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:15 am by VALL Blog Master
It does so by focusing on what Church (Univ. of Houston) takes to be the deepest articulation of the insights of individualist thinking, those of Hegel and Nietzsche, who polish up what the author calls the "historical individual," in contrast to two earlier formulations, the "natural individual" of Machiavelli and Hobbes and the "formal individual" of, especially, Kant. [read post]