"Across the state of Texas, we really don't have a lot of competitive races this cycle," Mark Jones, a Rice University political science professor, said. knew exactly what he was doing, what he was risking and who he was inciting as he stood on the Senate floor Wednesday and passionately fed the farce of election fraud even as a seething crowd of believers was being whipped up by President Trump a short distance away, the editorial board wrote. However, the most important part of the job lies under the soil, in the state's extensive oil and gas holdings. He insisted that Mecom pay the $84 million debt immediately in cash. 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A native of Waco, Pederson attended Baylor University, earning a B.A. Peterson's work has won numerous awards, been featured in major news publications and on network and local television news programs. 01 May 2023 14:30:00 Uvalde couldn't bring gun reform. Hurricane Season: What to do before, during and after a storm, Residents say Fort Bend toll road project is too close for comfort, Fight between neighbors leads to shooting in NE Houston, police say. The editorial positions of The Chronicle, including election recommendations, represent the consensus of the editorial board, consisting of the publisher, the editorial page editor and. She completed a fellowship at Loyolas Journalist Law School in Los Angeles. Sharon Steinmann, Opinion Video JournalistSharon.Steinmann@chron.com, Sharon Steinmann, Chief Photographer in Create, poses for a portrait at the TPH on January 18, 2019. When it comes to what matters to Harris County voters, Jones says it comes down to the price of goods and crime. [32], A copy of the original story that led to the investigation has been removed from the Chronicle's website. The results, he expects, will be tight. Rockets land game-changer coachIme Udoka. [35], In the weeks following the September 11 attacks, the Houston Chronicle published a series of opinion articles by University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen that asserted the United States was "just as guilty" as the hijackers in committing acts of violence and compared that attack with the history of U.S. attacks on civilians in other countries. The Chronicle, which has been a vocal critic of Cruz over the years,wrote in an opinion pieceFridaythat the senators actions helped fuel Wednesdays deadly pro-Trump mob at the Capitol. At the end of its first month in operation, the Chronicle had a circulation of 4,378roughly one tenth of the population of Houston at the time. [18] He was succeeded by Jack Sweeney. The memos, first obtained by the alternative paper the Houston Press, say the Chronicle's conglomerate and the Post "reached an agreement in October, 1994, for the sale of Houston Post Co.'s assets for approximately $120 million. Abortion roiled the midterms. Authorities say an 8-year-old child was among five people killed in a shooting at the home in southeast Texas late Friday night. As opinion editor, she led the editorial board to its first Pulitzer in 2022 for a series of editorials entitled the Big Lie exploring how Texas has employed the myth of voter fraud for more than a century to suppress voting and control access to the polls. [64], A dispute ensued between KSEV radio show host/owner Dan Patrick and an assistant managing editor at the Chronicle. How should Houston prepare for climate change? Loftis is a Distinguished Alumnus of Baylor University, where he also lettered in baseball and in 2001 helped dedicate the pressbox at newly constructed Baylor Ballpark in his honor. Houston oilman John Mecom offered $85 million for the newspaper, its building, a 30 percent interest in Texas National Bank of Commerce, and the historic Rice Hotel. 21 jb_713 6 mo. The Chronicle said that its poll showed "severely eroded support for U.S. Rep Tom DeLay in his district, most notably among Republicans who have voted for him before. On. Elections officials must receive your mail-in ballot by 7 p.m. on Election Day if the carrier envelope is not postmarked. The revenues from these mineral rights serve as the core asset for the state's Permanent School Fund. In the face of strident opposition to sensible gun regulations and overwhelming fear of gun violence, the only solution is to take inspiration from our nation's many shooting victims and relentlessly advocate for change. I then said to him that I would give him 300,000 dollars in cash, having in mind that this would pay his debts and give him 100,000 spending money. He is a native of Hillsboro, Texas, where he began his journalism career as a sportswriter in 1955. [citation needed], The sources being questioned in Ward's reporting were the product of "man-on-the-street" interviews from a story dealing with rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Harvey. Houston Rockets Jon Barry, center, falls over Los Angeles Lakers' Chucky Atkins and teammate Rod Strickland going for a loose ball during the second quarter Sunday, Feb. 6 in Houston. She joined the Chronicle in 2005 as a roving state correspondent based in Austin. Catalog; For You; Houston Chronicle Sunday. The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board on has won a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on voter suppression in Texas. He is past chairman and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (now named the Newspaper Association of America) and past chairman of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Mecom cancelled his purchase agreement.[16]. Done with the opportunism. Its a job he was born to do. He is a past chairman of the Houston World Affairs Council, a member of the boards of the Houston Hispanic Forum, The Estereo Latino Foundation and the Rothko Chapel and is on the advisory boards of the Neuhaus Education Center and Holocaust Museum-Houston. Expansion clearly helped the Arkansas residents. Barnes said Houston Chronicle researchers had problems finding a number of sources quoted in Ward's story, so the newspaper hired investigative journalist David Wood, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Bottom row: Leah Binkovitz, Senior Editorial Writer. In 1911, city editor George Kepple started Goodfellows. If your ballot is postmarked by 7 p.m. on Election Day, the county can receive it until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Headshot of Joe Holley, Senior Editorial Writer. As a senior photo editor at The Penny Hoarder, one of the worlds largest personal finance websites, she spent three years building their photo department. Mealer wouldn't answer and instead deflected to the media's lack of reporting on "Hunter Biden.". By the time Barnes informed the public about what would turn into the biggest journalism scandal of 2018, it had already become one of the worst kept secrets in Austin among the capitol press corps that writes about Texas politicians. Joe Holley and Evan Mintz 2017 finalist for editorial writing. (Opinion), Do Bible verses belong in newspapers? Want proof Medicaid expansion would help Texans? The 2023 NFL Draft runs April 2729 live from Kansas City, Missouri. She joined the Chronicle in 1987 as an intern, later covering Houston schools, Harris County government and state civil district courts. Her passion for media continued onto college at Texas State University, where she received a Bachelors of Arts degree with a double major in Electronic Media and English. Raised in Seguin, Texas, Falkenberg is the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, and the first in her family to go to college. The Houston Chronicle's editorial board is pushing back against Texas Gov. [39] The facility was connected to the downtown Houston tunnel system. Sharon was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Anthropology. It's worth noting during the editorial board screening that Judge Hidalgo directly asked Mealer if President Biden won the 2020 election. Houston Chronicle Building, 4747 Southwest Fwy.. 1963: William Porterfield won an Ernie Pyle Award. No mention was made of Steven or the Houston Endowment board. Candidates for the midterm 2022 elections: Top (left to right): Beto O'Rourke (D), Alexandra del Moral Mealer (R) and Mike Collier (D). "[67], Former Texas Secretary of State Jack Rains contacted the Chronicle's James Howard Gibbons, alleging that the poll appeared to incorrectly count non-Republican Primary voters in its sample. The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board interviewed candidates in more than 60 races to make the following recommendations for Harris County and one Katy ISD proposition. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The race for Harris County Judge is said to be a close one, and the Houston Chronicle's editorial board's endorsement could be deemed crucial, according to political experts. Stroud, Will Anderson Jr. Just be a queen. 29 Apr 2023 14:00:02 Facebook agrees to pay $725M settlement: Whats the deadline to file a claim? The Houston Public Library has the newspaper on microfilm from 1880 to 1995 and the Houston Post Index from 1976 to 1994. Houston, Texas The Rice 360 Institute for Global Health offers innovative programs to engage undergraduate students in the design and implementation of new technologies to solve real global. Even though she has traveled throughout the world as a photojournalist, her true passion is exploring issues right in her own backyard. He was a year 2000 Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The Courthouse 3rd Court of Appeals, Place 4: Rosa Lopez Theofanis All three choices are good for voters. Bush speaks on the issues facing his office with the expertise of a man ready to serve. According to the Handbook of Texas online, the Chronicle generally represented very conservative political views during the 1950s: the Chronicle generally represented the very conservative political interests of the Houston business establishment. @tedcruz: What I was working to do is find a way to reestablish widespread trust in the system., No regrets amid growing calls for resignation: https://t.co/KOojnGbIZc, Todays @HoustonChron: pic.twitter.com/9lGopVOcV1, Ben Wermund (@BenjaminEW) January 9, 2021. John J. Jones left the Chronicle not long after Steven's ouster. Winner of 2022 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. Regina Lankenau, Assistant Op-Ed Editorregina.lankenau@chron.com. In 1981, the business pageswhich until then had been combined with sportsbecame its own section of the newspaper. Staff - 2017 finalist for public service. The second building built by Jones opened in 1910. Texas Legislature's bill banning on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming care disregards medical science and freedoms of Texas families. [15], By 1965, Creekmore had persuaded other directors of Houston Endowment to sell several business properties, including the Chronicle. Steven had previously been editor of the Tulsa Tribune and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and credited with turning around the declining readership of both papers. Before joining the Chronicle, Nick worked as an opinion writer and editor at City & State NY. The Houston Chronicle decided not to post or re-post any more Houston Post articles because of difficulties in complying with the New York Times Co. v. Tasini decision with the resources that were available to the newspaper. Five people died amid Wednesdays chaos, including a woman who was shot by a Capitol Police officer and an officer who died after suffering injuries while responding to the rioting. I would also pay him 20,000 dollars a year as editor of the paper and 6,000 dollars a year to continue writing the daily front-page column, "MEFO", on the condition that either of us could cancel the editorship and/or the MEFO-column contracts on six months' notice, and that, if I canceled both the column and the editorship, I would give him an additional 6,000 dollars a year for life. Roald Dahl's stories can't catch a break. Regina is a native of Monterrey, Mexico and grew up all over Vienna, Warsaw, Mexico City, Laredo, and Houston, where she attended Klein Oak High School. Of course, Temple or Belton or Killeen (home to Fort Hood . Langworthy was previously employed by the Christian Science Monitor. ", Fernando Dovalina, Jr. (former assistant managing editor), Ken Hammond (editor, Texas Magazine, Chronicle Sunday Edition). In 1994, the Chronicle switched to being a morning-only paper. Sunny Nash (contributor, columnist, photographer, This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 21:05. This portable Cubii under-desk elliptical is $129 off today. (Opinion), Israeli-Palestinian progress means mutual recognition (Opinion), Huffines: Lege property tax cut proposals are Band-Aid solutions. Clyde Peterson, aka CP Houston, is the Editorial page cartoonist and has been a member of the Editorial Board since 1965. Dudley Althaus 1992 finalist in international reporting: "For his articles on the causes of the cholera epidemic in, Tony Freemantle 1997 finalist in international reporting: "For his reporting from, Staff 2009 finalist for breaking news coverage: "For taking full advantage of online technology and its newsroom expertise to become a lifeline to the city when Hurricane Ike struck, providing vital minute-by-minute updates on the storm, its flood surge and its aftermath.". Richard J.V. Rosenthal's involvement in the probe itself came under fire by the Houston Press, which in editorials questioned whether Rosenthal was too close to TTM: from 2000 to 2004, Rosenthal accepted some $30,000 in donations from known TTM supporters. On October 18, 2008, the paper endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, the first Democrat to be endorsed by the newspaper since 1964, when it endorsed Texan Lyndon B. The fight for the soul of the nation returns. Federal judge rules Pennsylvania school district must allow After School Satan Two hospitals may have violated federal law in denying woman an emergency McConnell insists hes sitting out debt talks to disbelief. Johnson was with the Texas Daily Newspaper Association from 1955 to 1956. [65] The story was also picked up by the local Houston television stations and, a week later, the O'Reilly Factor. David Langworthy is the Outlook editor. [36], As of 2016 the building housed the Chronicle Production Department,[36] as well as the offices of the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Houston. If your ballot is postmarked by 7 p.m. on Election Day, the county can receive it until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Texas law does not allow cell phones in the voting booth, so take this summary page with you or print out our handy PDF. GOP leaders say ballot shortage was targeted at Republicans. The board did have a meeting with both candidates. ", Ties That Bind? The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. Here are your picks for the Best of the Capital Region 2023. Gibbons began his newspaper career in 1968 as a copy editor for the Newport News, Va., Times-Herald and later covered Project Apollo as a research assistant to Oriana Fallaci. By 1959, circulation of the rival Houston Post had pulled ahead of the Chronicle.[6]. The Editorial Board is made up of opinion journalists with wide-ranging expertise whose consensus opinions and endorsements represent the voice of the institution - defined as the board. Both fatalities are under investigation. 'This Week In Texas' puts spotlight on Harris County Judge's race. She is also a current PhD student in Rice Universitys sociology department. Rains also asserted that Murray had a conflict of interest in the poll, as Murray's son Keir was a political consultant working for Nick Lampson, DeLay's Democratic challenger in 2006. Colleen Baker, Audience Producercolleen.baker@chron.com. Falkenberg lives in Houston and is the mother of three. The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 billion in revenues. This includes overseeing a land program for Texas veterans through the Texas Land Board and protecting the Texas coastline. The Houston Chronicle editorial board called on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to resign over his Cancun debacle in a blistering editorial on Friday. Catch up on what Houston's talking about today with Chron's morning newsletter. It did not perform investigative journalism. He previously was the managing editor, and was the sports editor for three years until 1983. The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board on Monday won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on voter suppression in Texas. . If the state Senate has its way, "backup power generation would become the province of the state a taxpayer-backed lemonade stand that we will only need in emergencies, with a guaranteed rate of return even if no one uses the juice." - Editorial Board. Collier remained in this position until his retirement in 1979. Houston Chronicle Editorial Board: We recommend Alexandra Mealer for Harris County Judge Houston Chronicle The Editorial Board Oct. 12, 2022 Foster, who had been covering the Spindletop oil boom for the Post, invested in Spindletop and took $30 of the return on that investmentat the time equivalent to a week's wagesand used it to fund the Chronicle. that the senators actions helped fuel Wednesdays deadly pro-Trump mob at the Capitol. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Houston chapter of the Association of Women Journalists. Massive ranch up for sale near Texas next big state park, Family gets largest known jail-death settlement in Texas, Texas House passes bill to decriminalize marijuana, Texas man catches giant alligator snapping turtle, releases it, 3,800-acre San Antonio-area property to become Texas state park, Conroe ISD schools secured as manhunt for gunman continues, You can own your own cave system for a cool $875k, home included, Texas college baseball player hit by stray bullet mid-game, Uber ranks Houston among most 'forgetful' U.S. cities, Watch: Fire breaks out at Houston's Traders Village, KPRC 2 Houston names new 4 p.m. anchor, adds traffic lead, Greg Abbott 'regrets' calling massacre victim 'illegal'. He is a member of Class IX of Leadership Houston. You can also read the newsroom's 2022 Texas Voter Guide. Contact Chron To pitch freelance stories to our editorial staff, email freelance@chron.com. [4], In addition to its daily print edition, the Chronicle offers Chron.com, a free online-only, ad-supported newspaper covering breaking news, weather, traffic, pop culture, and city life. In 1959, he was named to the board of Houston Endowment, and was promoted to president of the board in 1964. He is a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism (economics) of the University of Maryland. While the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft was unique in the fact that the first and only quarterback wasn't taken until the 20th overall pick, three quarterbacks heard their names called on the 2023 NFL Draft's opening evening one that was filled with surprises.. Over at PFF's Live Draft Tracker, we analyzed every single pick in real time and gave a grade for each selection. This resulted in a stodgy newspaper that failed to capture the interests of newcomers to the city. We came away from this screening without the answers that we wanted.". Expanding Texas' medical marijuana program to include chronic pain management would be a massive improvement on oneof the most restrictive programs in the nation, and potentially keep patients from accessing more dangerous medications. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Chris Coons (Del.). Barnes later went on to tell Columbia Journalism Review that the widespread fabrication apparent in Ward's articles was unprecedented, in her experience: "I've been an editor a long time and I have never seen anything like this, period.". Raj Mankad is the op-ed editor at the Houston Chronicle. 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Tucker Carlson is out at Fox. The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board: "We urge voters to give Texas counties another tool, already long used by cities, to keep investing in their infrastructure. Colleen Baker, Audience Producer. Save this article by becoming a member today! He is on the board of directors of Houston Grand Opera. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2017 for a series of editorials on gun control and the Texas gun culture and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2022, as part of the Houston Chronicle editorial team that produced a series of editorials on voting rights. [33], On July 21, 2014, the Chronicle announced that its Downtown employees were moving to the 610 Loop campus,[34] at the intersection of the 610 Loop and U.S. Route 59/I-69 (Southwest Freeway). CLIMATE ACTION Houston Chronicle Editorial Board recommends Alexandra Mealer, not Lina Hidalgo, for Harris County Judge - Houston Chronicle 5 months ago by Amanda 197 Views 15 min read Written by Amanda
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