Email Author Craig Malisow

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 15, 2011

  "Down the Hatch"

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published December 15, 2011

  "Down the Hatch"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published October 14, 2010

  "The Littlest People"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "Prison Pays"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "Prison Pays"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published January 21, 2010

  "Net Gains and Losses"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published January 29, 2009

  "BARC Sucks"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published July 16, 2009

  "Cover Me"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published December 3, 2009

  "Credit Repair"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 16, 2009

  "Cover Me"

• 2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published January 29, 2009

  "BARC Sucks"

• 2009 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "Language Barrier"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 17, 2008

  "Selling You"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "The Plane Truth"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "The Plane Truth"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published September 21, 2006

  "Penal Violations"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published February 2, 2006

  "Wize Guys"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 15, 2006

  "Feel My Pain"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005

  "Exposed Nerve"

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 21, 2005

  "Dr. Nice"

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 7, 2005

  "Exposed Nerve"

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2012 Stories by Craig Malisow

• Female Veterans Needed for PTSD Study

  published Oct 25, 2012

  The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine are seeking female veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder for a study that might hopefully lead to a new medical treatment... More >>

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  Alicia Richman: 86 Gallons of Breast Milk and One World Record

  published Oct 25, 2012

  We always see commercials urging folks to give blood, but there are other precious bodily fluids that can be expelled and given away to strangers in need, and certainly breast milk ranks highly on tha... More >>

• State Criminal Justice System Group: "Texas Failing Traumatized Girls"

  published Oct 25, 2012

  The state's juvenile justice system is failing the girls in its custody, according to a new report from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. The findings of a one-day survey of approximately 100 gi... More >>

• Top 14 Words Used By Cybercriminals

  published Oct 24, 2012

  We here at Hair Balls have gotten pretty good at recognizing e-mail scams when we see 'em. For example, we don't give our checking account info to just any Olatunde, Abimbola or Harry who says he's a ... More >>

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  Jenny Roberts: Federal Prosecutor's Wife Accuses Cops of Beating Her; Cops Say Her Husband Did It

  published Oct 23, 2012

  The wife of a federal prosecutor formerly based in Houston has accused Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies of beating her so severely she suffered permanent brain damage, while the County Attorney sa... More >>

• Coogs for the Cure: Great Sports, Great Cause This Weekend

  published Oct 23, 2012

  The University of Houston Athletics Department's Coogs for the Cure is giving you a chance to have fun while raising money in the battle against breast cancer this weekend. Come cheer your favorite te... More >>

• Rodney Pearson: Jasper's First Black Police Chief (Now Former Chief) Sues City

  published Oct 18, 2012

  The first black police chief in Jasper, Texas -- the East Texas hamlet best known for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. -- didn't last long. In fact, according to the federal lawsuit he just filed ... More >>

• Obama, Romney & "Binders Full of Women": Our Take on the Debate

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Is it hackneyed to whine about presidential debates' failure to make candidates actually answer questions and to be held to the truthr Probably, but we'll do it anyway, if only for a moment. For most ... More >>

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  Treasures Customer Says He Was Ripped Off, Assaulted by Staff (UPDATED)

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Update: American Express will refund Michael Vernon's money, according to a settlement agreement. In return, Amex will be dropped from the suit. The refund appears to bolster Vernon's claims that Tr... More >>

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  Centers for Disease Control Confirms Fungal Meningitis in Texas

  published Oct 16, 2012

  Between the flu, West Nile and potentially toxic oysters, we already planned on hunkering down in our bomb shelter for the next ten or so years, but now we've got one more pathogen to worry about: The... More >>

• University of Houston's Lame Attempt to Distract From Recent Robberies

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Hair Balls is used to receiving one or two (hundred) moronic press releases a month, but the one issued today by University of Houston flacks needs to be publicly addressed for its singular ingenuousn... More >>

• Robert Claude Powell: A Man, a Barstool and a Plan Gone Awry

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Robert Claude Powell of Alvin is a dude who's serious about renting movies -- he won't let anything get in his way, including pesky doors, apparently, because he was arrested after allegedly throwing ... More >>

• Forethought Financial: Houston-based Company Repays California Clients $25 Million

  published Oct 09, 2012

  Yikes -- a Houston-based "end of life needs" insurance company will reimburse California beneficiaries $25 million, California State Controller John Chiang announced Monday. Chiang accused Forethough... More >>

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  Thomas Lee Elkins: GEO Group Lets Sixth Rapist Stroll Away From Halfway House in 24 Months

  published Oct 08, 2012

  The rapist of a 16-year-old girl is the latest sexual predator to slip through the sieve that is the privately run Southeast Texas Transitional Center. Thomas Lee Elkins, convicted of aggravated kidn... More >>

• Last Three Scumbags Plead Guilty in Sex Trafficking Case

  published Oct 05, 2012

  The last three defendants in what federal prosecutors called the single biggest domestic sex trafficking ring in the Southern District of Texas have pleaded guilty to forcing women and minors into pro... More >>

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  Ashlyn Treadway: An Educational Fund in Her Honor

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Child Abuse and Forensic Services, a Beaumont-based non-profit, has created the Ashlyn Tilea Treadway Educational Fund, in honor of a sexual abuse survivor who was killed in a car accident last August... More >>

• It's Allegedly Raining Bleach-Filled Balloons at UT-Austin

  published Oct 04, 2012

  Like everyone else, Hair Balls was freaked out over reports of alleged mad bombers at UT-Austin pelting minority students with bleach-filled balloons. But then we spoke with the Austin Police Departme... More >>

• Cover Story: Is Biomedical Testing on Primates Still Necessaryr

  published Oct 03, 2012

  On October 24, scientists from around the world will come to San Antonio to discuss how testing on monkeys might one day lead to an AIDS cure. They'll be talking baboons, macaques, and vervets at the... More >>

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  Okay, Who's the A-hole Who Stole a Dog Rescuer's Expensive Camerar

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Yvette Holzbach has been photographing dogs for the Forgotten Dogs of the 5th Ward rescue group for at least eight months; her often heartbreaking pics have helped the group place 144 dogs since formi... More >>

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  Father Ronald Bollich: Two More Men Accuse Beaumont Diocese of Negligence in Alleged Abuse

  published Sep 27, 2012

  Two more men have joined a lawsuit accusing a deceased Beaumont priest of molestation. Identified as John Does, the two men join another anonymous plaintiff who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Be... More >>

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  "Laredo Is Safe": Six Tourism Billboards That Suck Just as Bad

  published Sep 26, 2012

  It seems that violence from drug cartels on the other side of the border has caused a real image problem for the formerly booming tourist industry in Laredo. So now the city is fighting back with its ... More >>

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  TDCJ's Existing Nonexistent Facebook Policy: Its CFO Was Facebook Friend with Inmate, Too

  published Sep 24, 2012

  A prison guard fired for being Facebook friends with an inmate was reinstated after it was discovered that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's chief financial officer was Facebook friends with ... More >>

• Kountze High School: Keep Jesus on the Football Field, Where He Belongs!

  published Sep 20, 2012

  If there's one thing we learned from the Bible, it's that Jesus loved high school football. Remember Galatians 2:34r "And yea, Christ the Savior sayeth unto the Jerusalem Central Serpents, 'We are Bet... More >>

• Cindy Close & Marvin McMurrey III: Here's One Weird-Ass Child Custody Case

  published Sep 19, 2012

  When Cindy Close gave birth to twins last July, she thought she had finally achieved her lifelong dream of being a mother. The 47-year-old had gone about it in an unconventional way, she says, by usin... More >>

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  Anyone See Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Rod Lying Aroundr

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Hair Balls has lost car keys, wallets, cats and once even a rare Monet, but we'd like to think that we'd never lose a "potentially lethal" radioactive rod. But that's exactly what some Halliburton tr... More >>