Last week I touched on some poor reporting by Chron Transportation reporter Dug Begley surrounding a ruling for a temporary injunction in Wisconsin that didn't do exactly what transit activists were suggesting.  This fact hasn't stopped Houston Tomorrow from doubling down on the mis-characterization of the ruling, and even going one step further and using the lazy reporting as a mask for credibility by appealing to the authority of a story they, quite obviously, fed to Houston's former newspaper of record.

Federal judge says sprawl, transit, must factor in to highway building decisions.

People tweeting out racist statements to children are disgusting. They should be, and were, publicly shamed, this time on Twitter.  The problem with discussing race is always going to be one of response.  Often, what's said after the racist act can be just as racist as the first event.  Take the recent Chron.com story revealing that some idiots decided to send racist tweets following a young Mariachi's singing of the National Anthem.

Little S.A. Singer proves he is a class act. René A.

Oh. My. Gawd.

A not so modest proposal for the Astrodome. David Kaplan, Prime Property a Chron.com blog

It’s Niagara Falls meets Paris World’s Fair meets “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

And that's just the header.  The remainder of the article is a reminder of just how bereft of ideas the so-called "creative class" in Houston really is.

Niagara Falls? - Um, not really. Especially when you consider Niagara Falls is one of the seven wonders of the Natural world.

My friend Stephan Seagraves recently flew in an UA Airbus 320 with the new Reparo 'slimline' seats supposedly possessing what United refers to as the "comfort package" and the results were not pretty:

New United Seats: Not an improvement.

Texas, as we all know, is just a small demographic tweak away from turning blue.  Listening to the State's Democrats all they have to do is sit around and wait until Texas rising minority populations hit critical mass and then they'll be free to spend all of the money in the rainy-day fund, increase taxes, get rid of the spending cap and spend even more.

Well, today is the day, the last day for private groups to submit proposals (with funding attached) to the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation regarding what to do with the Astrodome.  As you might imagine, there is no shortage of opinions regarding the Dome's future and the staff at ChronBlog (predictably) has weighed in suggesting that the only solution is a rather large taxpayer outlay, an outlay, if recent reports are to be believed, would add to an already troublesome problem.

There was a short span of time when I was hooked on cooking, or food related, shows.  I was a big fan of Top Chef, had a year or three where I watched the original Iron Chef (subtitled) religiously (although I never could quite bridge the gap to Iron Chef America) and I even fell in for Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay's F-word, Hell's Kitchen and Food Network Star (for the first two seasons).

First I read this:

Wisconsin Court Ruling means Houston could think more about transit. Dug Begley, The Highwayman, Chron.com

A federal court judge in Milwaukee might have made it a little trickier to widen Texas roads.

Leaving aside whether that’s a good or bad thing, the ruling has certainly energized Houston-area people who push for more transit and less freeway building.

We're getting there:

Uptown transit plan back on the road. Dug Begley, Chron.com

Uptown's plan centers on offering bus rapid transit service along Post Oak, between a planned Westpark transit center south of U.S. 59 and west of Loop 610, and the Northwest Transit Center near 610 and Interstate 10. Buses would run the route in special center lanes along Post Oak, then using either elevated lanes along 610, or existing city streets north of where Post Oak meets Loop 610.

So, this is a thing:

Fake names, It's gotta stop. Keep Houston Houston

Yes, EaDo is lame, but you're wrong about everything else. John Nova Lomax, Houstonia

What's in a name, Part Deux. Keep Houston Houston

What's in a neighborhood name? Kuffer, Off the Kuff.

If you took the time to read through all of that back n' forth (including the incredibly lame comment by John Nova Lomax on the second KHH post) then you probably have come to the same conclusion as I.
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