Email Author Richard Connelly

Awards

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published December 7, 2006

  "Punk'd"

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published November 2, 2006

  "Candidate of the Year"

• 2007 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 18, 2006

  "Lost Dog"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published April 14, 2005

  "What a Devil"

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2002 Stories by Richard Connelly

• Column Calamity

  published July 11, 2002

  Changes continue to bubble up at the Houston Chronicle under new editor Jeff Cohen, and two of the paper's high-profile columnists are the... More >>

• True Believer

  published July 11, 2002

  For more than four years, local Lutheran pastor Don Carlson has had the darkest of clouds hanging over him. He may finally be able to start seeing... More >>

• A Model Journalist

  published July 4, 2002

  Potential Houston-area home buyers likely peruse the Houston Chronicle's Sunday Homes section; for the rest of us, the advertiser-written... More >>

• The War Within

  published June 27, 2002

  Houston police Captain Mark Aguirre fights his battles on many fronts.From a battered office in the aging depths of the South Central... More >>

• My Funny Valentine

  published June 20, 2002

  The June 7 column on the front of the Houston Chronicle's Metropolitan section might easily have been mistaken for yet another snoozefest... More >>

• Sacred Cow Au Jus

  published June 6, 2002

  The decision by Linda Lay, the wife of Enron's Kenny Boy, to open a secondhand store called Jus' Stuff has provided much fodder for media outlets... More >>

• Beyond the Womb

  published May 30, 2002

  Mayor Lee P. Brown and other dignitaries attended a festive ceremony near City Hall last July 21, six weeks after Tropical Storm Allison battered... More >>

• Will May Ever End?

  published May 23, 2002

  When Channel 2 broke the sweeps-month story recently that Houston drivers sometimes exceed the speed limit, we thought, "Well, at least they're... More >>

• Scene's From A City's Soul

  published May 23, 2002

  When Amy Braitsch thinks of Houston, she likely thinks of vinegar. And machine parts. And a black-and-white city of balloon-tired roadsters and... More >>

• Swept Away

  published May 16, 2002

  The local television stations are still rolling out their best market-researched items for sweeps month, often to the chagrin of hapless... More >>

• Hearst 1, Baylor 0

  published May 9, 2002

  When Houston Chronicle editor Jack Loftis made noises about retiring this year, most people at 801 Texas assumed things would go pretty... More >>

• Tough Sailing

  published May 9, 2002

  A legal battle brewing in Houston's First Court of Appeals raises two pressing questions: 1. What is it with Vinson & Elkins and... More >>

• Delayed DeLay

  published May 2, 2002

  Imagine a world without Tom DeLay. Now, snap out of your reverie and force yourself to face the heinous reality that Tom DeLay is, indeed, a... More >>

• You Don't Know Mac

  published May 2, 2002

  Jim "Mattress Mac" McIngvale has done plenty to annoy Houstonians for the past 20 years, whether it's blasting endless crummy TV commercials,... More >>

• Bursting Bubbles

  published April 25, 2002

  It was pretty much a run-of-the-mill health report on Channel 13's 5 p.m. news April 17. Reporter Christi Myers told viewers of a possible... More >>

• One More Time

  published April 18, 2002

  There are certain things that are simply immutable about Houston. The Astros are always going to disappoint. The freeways are always going to be... More >>

• Camera Ready

  published April 11, 2002

  News-junkie Houstonians who are starved for entertainment now have a great new option: the 10 p.m. news on KHOU. Channel 11 has long been the... More >>

• Les Passé

  published April 11, 2002

  Finally -- after 15 or so years of planning and scheming and begging money and plotting political machinations, after enduring endless... More >>

• Criminals Beware

  published April 4, 2002

  It was a big story for Channel 2: A twentysomething woman had been arrested after "luring" a 12-year-old boy over the Internet. The woman... More >>

• Protest Too Much

  published March 28, 2002

  It was apparently an irresistible story, and few resisted. A group of Houston sixth-graders from Lanier Middle School was scheduled to take a... More >>

• Thou Shalt Not Pee

  published March 7, 2002

  Reporters covering the gruesome and depressing Andrea Yates trial might decide they need an extra cup of coffee or two to get through the day.... More >>

• Any Story Will Do

  published February 28, 2002

  We all know the Houston Chronicle's been having some trouble covering the Enron story. (Which is kind of like saying Enron's been having a... More >>

• The Line of Fire

  published February 21, 2002

  Let none of the brave reporters here in town following Enron ever think themselves accurs'd or hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks who... More >>

• We're Enron-Free!

  published February 14, 2002

  The rodeo's in town, and the annual local-media orgy of coverage has begun. Television reporters have once again chuckled their way through... More >>

• Rewriting History

  published February 7, 2002

  This just in: Enron wasn't quite as successful a company as many people believed. This startling news comes to us courtesy of the Houston... More >>