Excellent reporting, clear writing and (often overlooked) good editing in this Houston Chronicle story by Ryan Nickerson; www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Bill Mintz, the leader of this fine organization, was a Chronicle reporter in a previous life. He was my partner on the City Hall beat in the ‘80s.

The @houstonlanding.bsky.social is going out with a bang, dropping ambitious reports on the impact of Houston’s Vietnamese community and the impending area garbage crisis. houstonlanding.org

This never gets old

Once in a while a newspaper story enters the realm of literature.

When I saw the deadline I thought the piece was about this excellent writer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_R._...

Excellent analysis of how the brakes have been applied in booming suburbs such as Sugar Land and Pearland, by SamGonzalez-Kelly www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

More Texas oil and gas wells are leaking. Will taxpayers have to cover the $100M cost to plug them? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

I agree, but: Never use exclamation points

(1/2) Two friends and former colleagues, Alan Bernstein (houstonalanbernstein.substack.com) and Ronnie Crocker, (allmytexas.substack.com) have recently started Substack newsletters. Both are fine writers worthy of your attention.

This byline signals an automatic read for me. Chistof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social is one of Houston’s most original thinkers. Also, he knows a lot about trains. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Janis Scott, a fixture of community meetings and public lectures who was lovingly called “the bus lady” by four generations of Houstonians, died Monday. She was 73. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Quite a scoop here by @amari-clare.bsky.social in @houstonlanding.bsky.social houstonlanding.org/harris-outgo...

Just joined up here after deactivating the account linked to the space/electric car/destroy government dude. We'll see what happens, as someone likes to say.