The Texas Tribune, the new non-profit journalism operation headed by former Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith, had some big news yesterday: They'd received a $500,000 donation from the Houston Endowment.The gift will go a long ways toward -- Say what now? The Houston Endowment is getting back in the journalism business?The last time they did that, they owned the Houston Chronicle, and the list of sacred cows that were protected and coddled by order of the Endowment was lengthy and inviolate.Longti
