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    August 17, 2011

    What Google & Motorola's Marriage Means To The Music Industry

    The Daily Beast​Google stunned the tech world last week when it tied the knot with Motorola for $12.5 billion. But it's the music business that should be raising its brows at the union. Like any typical suitor, Google weighed Motorola's considerably large assets in its decision to get in bed ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2011

    The Unexpected Guest

    Suave, with impeccable but false credentials, "Dennis Shaw" moved easily through River Oaks society.

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Randall Kallinen, Others Want The New Public Defender's Office Done Right

    Hulk mad if budget small​More than a dozen local civil rights and justice advocacy groups banded together Wednesday in an attempt to ensure that the proposed Harris County public defender office gets done right.At a news conference, the organizations, which come together to form the Greater Housto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    HISD's Greg Meyers Divorcing HCC's Sandie Meyers

    The school board president and wife split​A divorce decree is expected to be issued tomorrow morning for Greg Meyers, president of the Houston ISD school board and his wife Sandie Meyers, a Houston Community College trustee, after more than 20 years of marriage."It's an unfortunate situation," Gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    (Very Possibly) Excerpts From The State Board Of Education's Curriculum Standards For The 2012-13 School Year

    ​There's been a whole lot of hooting and scorn from a nation who has watched as far-right-wingers have forced their odd, minority political views into Texas textbooks. There are some carping liberal complainers who think -- difficult as it may be to believe -- that Thomas Jefferson should be menti ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2010

    Incoming: Fairness for Victims

    Plus: Darkhorse Rides In

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2010

    Amiri Baraka

    With more than 50 years as an artist and activist, this writer continues to bring readers new work

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010
  • News

    June 25, 2009

    Confined Youth

    Reader weigh in on youths in state homes and behind bars.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Feds Say Metro Has Violated Civil Rights Laws (Without Specifics)

    We reported yesterday on things looking up for Metro, but today Hair Balls learned that our transit authority is violating the federal government's definition of civil rights. According to a letter dated April 27, the Federal Transit Administration conducted a Title VI Compliance Review of Metro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009
  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    The DA Takes On Illegals, Because She Can

    Photo courtesy Pat Lykos for DANot content to throw two of her prosecutors into the blender last week, Harris County DA Pat Lykos has decided to turn her guns on yet another unimportant bloc of voters - illegal immigrants.The Chron picks up the tale:"Four senior assistant district attorneys, speakin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    DA's New DNA Policy Still Might Not Find Past Mistakes

    Photo courtesy patlykos.comA non-working DNA lab and lack of proper policies were among the biggest contributors to the wrongful incarceration of Ricardo Rachell, District Attorney Pat Lykos said today at a press conference in the Criminal Justice Center.Lykos and Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Another Slap On The Wrist For The Child-Fondling Doctor

    Photo courtesy Jefferson County Sheriff's OfficeHere's today's criminal justice system tip: If you're going to plead guilty in Harris County to repeatedly fondling young girls -- some of whom you're related to -- make sure you're a doctor. And we're not talking podiatrist, here.Hair Balls suggest yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    MLK Day WonderWeek

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  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008
  • News

    October 23, 2008

    Who's Crying Now?

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008
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    July 17, 2008
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    April 6, 2006

    Amazing Height

    Web exclusive!

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Strings Attached

    Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    The Bradford Game

    A mid-trial meltdown scorches the district attorney

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    On the Defense

    Internal feuds and investigations cripple the agency representing accused convicts

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    Justice for Some

    Just who is a victim? After flexing its muscles to reform the justice system, the victims’ rights movement suffers growing pains over divisive issues.

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Divorce Over Easy

    Collaborative divorce promises to be kinder, faster, cheaper. But does it really work?

  • News

    July 25, 2002

    Judge Love Strikes Again

    A jurist's order restricts colleague's sleepovers with her pal

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Lobbyists

    Dave and Sue Walden

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Drug Money

    Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    Tresspassers Will Be Prosecuted

    Ranch Rescue's Jack Foote swears he just wants to mend fences. Is pseudomilitary secrecy, right-wing rhetoric and an armed vigilante militia the best way?

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    Campaign Finance Laws, What Are They Good For?

    Absolutely nothing! Yarbrough proves it again.

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    GOP Inc.

    How "Scary" Gary Polland turned his party apparatus into a political slot machine

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Courting Disaster?

    Some woes aren't going away at the county's new criminal justice center

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Absent a Mother

    A judge says Karen Shrader can't see or talk to her children because she's a bad influence. Shrader says any “bad influence” comes from the application of her ex-husband's deep pockets to the East Texas legal system.

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    The Insider

    Report No Evil! UH threatens its top cop for reporting a star athlete's misdeeds

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Borderline Bond

    Local judges go anti-immigrant in bail policies

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Judicial Hunting Season Opens

    Local judges go anti-immigrant in bail policies

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Coming to No Good End

    Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Rogue Elephant

    Log Cabin Republicans want to be part of the GOP, which wants no part of them

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Little Girl Lost?

    Brittany Ann Corcoran, age seven, went "missing" for seven months. She resurfaced with a case of head lice, holes in her socks and nothing settled about what has been and what will become of her...

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    The Insider

    Brittany Ann Corcoran, age seven, went "missing" for seven months. She resurfaced with a case of head lice, holes in her socks and nothing settled about what has been and what will become of her...

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Justice Lost -- and Found

    Austin police may finally file charges in the death of courts activist Donna Ringoringo

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    Bloodletting?

    The medical examiner's controversial DNA expert is fired... for doing her job

  • News

    January 4, 1996

    Ritalin on Trial

    While some Houston parents fight what they charge is "a river of Ritalin" running through the schools, one father has gone to court to try to prove that, for his son, Ritalin use is Ritalin abuse.

  • Music

    April 20, 1995

    Rotations

    While some Houston parents fight what they charge is "a river of Ritalin" running through the schools, one father has gone to court to try to prove that, for his son, Ritalin use is Ritalin abuse.

  • News

    November 17, 1994

    The Extended Courtship of Phrogge Simons

    Her persistence paid off, but she's not leaving just yet

  • News

    November 3, 1994

    Turkeys (and Other Creatures) On the Ballot

    Quick! It's almost Election Day!! Do you know who your candidates are? Check this guide to the mother of all ballots!

  • News

    August 25, 1994

    Losing Track

    Juvenile Probation has gotten out-of-touch with the INS ... and some young criminals it's supposed to supervise

  • News

    March 17, 1994

    Open Season on Open Seats

    D.A.s told it's okay to go after judgeships, but not after judges

  • News

    February 10, 1994

    Defending the Indefensible

    Do court-appointed attorneys serve their clients or the courts?

  • News

    December 2, 1993

    Uncivil Liberties

    The ACLU returns from the dead in Houston

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