Subject: Chuck Rosenthal

• Justice on the Block

  Is the D.A.'s office for sale to the highest bidder?

  March 9, 2000

• But at Least the Guns Aren’t Gay…

  April 26, 2007

• Quanell X Joins the Chuck Rosenthal Ouster Party

  January 30, 2008

• Sole of Houston: Deep Harrisburg: Lomax and Beebe Take on the East Side Again

  February 26, 2008

• Artist of the Week: Miss Mykie

  October 1, 2008

• Picking Up the Bill

  This time, a plan to bring drug courts here has real teeth

  May 10, 2001

• No Death Penalties This Year For The Death-Penalty Capital Of America (That's Us)

  October 17, 2008

• Bar Tabs

  The D.A. and county attorney dip into office funds to up the influence in judicial polls

  October 25, 2001

• Dumped On

  Houston was supposed to be cracking down on polluters. So why has it spent five years cleaning up on little guys like Walter Bazarsky?

  January 31, 2002

• Emmett, Also, Visits With The Sikh Family That Said It Was Harassed

  The Sikh family that says it was harassed by Harris County Sheriff's deputies has been getting to know county politicians more than they might have guessed.Over the weekend, sheriff-elect Adrian Garcia met with the family and many other Sikhs; yesterday is was County Judge Ed Emmett.Emmett apologized for the incident, even though technically it's still under investigation."I apologized for what happened to them, and I kept saying over and over, as kindly as I could, that I can't judge the facts,

  December 16, 2008

• The Five Least Significant Deaths In Houston This Year

  We've already noted the five biggest local deaths in 2008; now it's time to look at the five deaths that leave the smallest amounts of sympathy or significance.5. The Playoff Chances of the Texans and Astros. Insignificant because really, did anyone expect anything different? The teams blew when they least could afford it, then threw in a bunch of wins late in the year to look like they could be actually getting it together and therefore didn't need much improvement in the off-season. Expect mor

  December 29, 2008

• The Buffalo Bayou Pedestrian Bridge Needs A New Name

  No one can tolerate the name of Houston's newest pedestrian bridge, the Tolerance Bridge (get it?).The Houston Chronicle reports that the mayor's office is seeking new names for the $7 million bridge over Buffalo Bayou near Allen Parkway and Montrose after city council members cried "lame."The Houston Arts Alliance will take suggestions from Houstonians over what the weird span should be called.The bridge has a funky curved design that is modernistic and far too sophisticated for the likes o

  January 23, 2009

• Political Change (Here And In DC) May Help Murder Victim's Mom

  Carrie Ruiz of Humble is praying that President Obama and his promised commitment to foreign diplomacy will help bring her daughter's killer to justice.Nine years ago, Ruiz's teenaged daughter, Felicia, was stabbed to death 26 times in an open field. Two of the three attackers are now behind bars, but the mastermind, Jesus Salazar, fled to his home country of Venezuela, where he has taken refuge. For the past eight years, Ruiz had been fighting former Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosent

  January 23, 2009

• The Insider

  January 18, 1996

• The Judge Who Can't Talk Straight

  February 10, 2000

• A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos

  January 29, 2009

• Turkeys of the Year

  DA Chuck Rosenthal flies off with top honors

  November 27, 2008

• Pimpin' Ain't Easy

  Tension mounts at the Chronicle

  June 26, 2003

• Blessed and Bewildered

  Recent debacles demonstrate why District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal needs more than a moustache to match the legacy of Johnny Holmes

  July 31, 2003

• Death Threats and TAKS Tests

  Some TAKS tests are murder

  April 17, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal on trial, Metro Q Cards and a Scandal Scorecard

  The Great Deleter takes the stand

  February 7, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal, Nan Goldin and Soulja Boy

  January 17, 2008

• American Gladiators, Religion, HAR Elections

  January 10, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

  January 3, 2008

• No Pain, No Gain

  Our solution for saving Texas's claim to capital punishment fame

  May 26, 2005

• Best Court Ruling

  September 23, 2004

• The Original Shame Sentence?

  Rattling the bones in Ted Poe's closet

  January 22, 2004

• Ties That Bind?

  The D.A. shares something with those he's supposed to be probing: campaign support

  January 15, 2004

• Bench Blues

  The judiciary starts scrambling after state cuts in visiting judges

  June 19, 2003

• The Highs and Lows of Life with Lee

  The best and worst from the Brown days

  May 15, 2003

• Dumb and Dumber

  Rod Paige does no better when he doesn't have an answer than when he does

  April 17, 2003

• War Is Not Hell

  The Chron's embedded reporter is far from the action

  April 10, 2003

• The Bradford Game

  A mid-trial meltdown scorches the district attorney

  January 30, 2003

• All I Want for Christmas Is...

  A shopping list for your favorite political types

  December 26, 2002

• Innocence Lost

  The D.A.'s policy cuts into an inmate advocacy program

  July 4, 2002

• Needling the Mayor

  Former drug czar Lee Brown has trouble negotiating a question about why there's no needle-exchange program for addicts in Houston

  April 25, 2002

• Lethal Legacy

  Yates isn't dying to prove the equity of Harris County executions

  March 21, 2002

• Paying the Price

  Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  October 11, 2001

• Votes 'n' Bail

  GOP consultant Allen Blakemore looks to become a do-it-yourself bondsman

  May 31, 2001

• An Open Mike

  He wants to castrate pedophiles and purge the courts of politics. He has assailed fellow jurists, lawyers and lawmakers. He's maverick Mike McSpadden, a tennis ace with a tomahawk tongue.

  April 19, 2001

• The Bench Warmer

  After two defeats by voters, will Bob Burdette finally lose his black robe to a DWI?

  April 12, 2001

• Hotze's Blue Angels

  Not-so-divine DWI help arrives for a conservative kingmaker

  March 29, 2001

• Innocence Lost?

  Despite its increasing importance, DNA evidence routinely gets destroyed here

  November 30, 2000

• The Mod Squad

  With Brown adrift, can this trio carry the ball?

  October 12, 2000

• The Day the Democrats Died

  Learning to love the one-party state

  March 23, 2000

• The Insider

  Political Goodfellows Editor: Gabe and Gary get new toys; Lee and Mario cry in their stockings

  December 16, 1999

• Chucked Up

  The D.A. and sheriff sizzle over Rosenthal's misleading campaign mailer

  December 9, 1999

• Sarofim II: The Next (De)Generation

  In the latest divorce donnybrook, things didn't go better with coke

  November 18, 1999

• Magazine Actually Claims Harris County Can Govern Itself

  ​Reporter John Mecklin worked a long time in Houston for the old Post; he also served as an editor at the SF Weekly, the San Francisco paper in our very own Village Voice Media chain.He's now editor at a magazine called Miller-McCune, a publication started by a Southern California philanthropist; the magazine's motto is "Turning Research Into Solutions."Mecklin spent enough time in Houston to become extremely cynical about county government here, so he's as surprised as anyone, it seems, with

  August 13, 2009

• It's Turkey-Lurkey Time, As Burt Bacharach Would Say

  ​November brings with it Thanksgiving, which in turn brings with it the annual Houston Press accounting of the Turkeys of the Year here in Houston.Last year was easy, of course: any year that includes the e-mail antics of District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal is pretty much a no-brainer. When a year includes a free-spending, high-living president of a financially crippled school, like TSU's Priscilla Slade, the selection process is also relatively simple.But what about 2009?In sports, we had an in

  November 12, 2009