This is going to be a problem. How the hell does a jury get to “ties to an ‘organization’ that doesn’t exist?” And the #HoustonChronicle credulously reports it.
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Ooh, it's exciting and gorgeous, isn't it?? I love watching this. It's hypnotic.
Better angle, even. God, it's awesome to watch. I wish this quick shot of newspaper printing presses kept going for, like, two full minutes, but that would lose everyone who wasn't in newspapers for a decade, probably.
These are the presses you always hear people say to stop.
I used to work for the #HoustonChronicle, and I've seen these going before IRL (and seen the MUCH smaller ones for HCN), and I never don't love a good #newspaper printing shot 🤩
#TheSecretAgent feels made-for-me 🤓
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questioning the way the Astros tried to coach Jesus Sanchez
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Jake Meyers is the Astros constant in the outfield.
He is the greybeard of the outfield with more years than all the others combined.
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Cam Smith to get reps in center field. This is necessary if we trade Jake Meyers also, but the more spots Cam can play the better
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Kroger’s new Verified Savings Program offers #SNAP, #WIC and #Medicaid recipients 20% off fruits & vegetables and half‑off membership benefits through Jan. 31, 2026. Source: #HoustonChronicle
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The Chronicle answers readers questions
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Islamophobic attacks on the EPIC City project caused death threats, bullying, and fear among North Texas Muslims, showing how Texas “Sharia city” rhetoric creates real danger. #Texas #EPICCity #MuslimCivilRights #CivilRights #TargetedHarassment #StateRepression #TexasMuslims #HoustonChronicle
No, Bomani! I said “Your loss,” & I meant it!
Nfn, I was a #newspaper #reporter & #editor for YEARS. I didn’t write like the #HoustonChronicle wanted me to, either, & they CONSTANTLY bitched at me for it, but the coverage was better for my #writing. I knew better.
I just know better. That’s all 🤗
Fortunately, I was already fired from #HoustonChronicle well before now, for cause (I told a bunch of #NYC suits to fuck each other & themselves & stormed out of the room threatening to sue, #lol; I’m not rehireable), otherwise I’d DEF be out of a job again: kcookandcatsco.medium.com/charlie-kirk...
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Lance McCullers with a sore hand to the IL, Colton Gordon up
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"We've played to bigger, but quality counts for something."
I used to write for the #HoustonChronicle, and I've now got 1600 followers on #BlueSky & 210 on Medium.
I GET this! 😆
I can literally name every 1 of my Medium readers (& most of their #pets), but there IS something special about an intimate audience... 🥰
#FilmSky #Film #Rosencrantz&Guildenstern
How do high-end #restaurants refine their service? By tracking your #data | #HoustonChronicle zurl.co/3JJlH
Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) press office posted 2024 homicide statistics for Houston underneath a less-than-flattering photo of a grimacing Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to contrast San Francisco's much lower numbers.
#GavinNewsom #HomicideRate #GregAbbott #Houston #SanFrancisco #HoustonChronicle
@elbeejay Practically everything I've quoted and commented on here in this thread has been authored, in part or wholly, by R.A. Schuetz. She has an account on the fediverse, but doesn't appear active sadly: @raschuetz@newsie.social (and apparently my instance might not federate with them?)
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A map of Houston, Texas, focused on the inner 610 circle. Red dots indicate tickets given for encampments, and blue dots indicate the encampments themselves. There is a strong cluster of dots on the western half of the inner circle. Four regions forming this "Houston Arrow" are color coded and given encampment ticket counts for the time period between August and December of 2023: Downtown (green, 135 tickets), Midtown (blue, 110 tickets), Near Northside (yellow, 80), and Memorial Park (teal, 67). Additional text reads: "Officers issued the most tickets near downtown and in Midtown, the southwest corner of Near Northside and Memorial Park. Montrose and the northern corner of Third Ward also saw high volumes of tickets.
A map of the houston area centered on downtown but branching out 10+ miles in all directions. Various regions are color-coded differing shades of purple based on household income, with higher incomes being darker purple. These darker purple, higher-income regions are where most of the red dots on the map --- corresponding to encampment citations given by police to the homeless ---are concentrated. Text reads: "Here is a map of median household income, with the highest earners represented by the deepest shades of purple. The high earners in neighborhoods west, northwest, and southwest of downtown form an arrow shape: the "Houston Arrow." That is also where most of the encampment tickets were issued."
The same basic map, but color-coded to indicate percentage of white residents. Various regions are color-coded differing shades of yellow based on concentration of white residents. The darker yellow, mostly-white regions are where most of the red dots on the map --- corresponding to encampment citations given by police to the homeless ---are concentrated. Text reads: "The Houston Arrow also shows up when mapping race. Here the deeper shades of yellow are the areas with a higher concentration of white residents. Again, the encampment tickets match up with the arrow."
A map of Austin, Texas showing the results, by precinct, of the ballot initiative known as "Prop B" (reinstating the camping ban) in May of 2021. Higher regions in favor of the ban are in deeper shades of red, and higher regions opposed to the ban are in deeper shades of blue. The downtown region, and regions west of I-35 --- which split the city in half left and right --- are various shades of red. Regions east of I-35 are varying shades of blue, with very light red shades in the far outskirts in rural areas. West Austin is much whiter, and higher income, than East Austin, mirroring the same observations seen in Houston. Various text boxes read: Austin, Tex. May 1, 2021, Proposition B (Reinstate Camping Ban), Approved. For: 90,428 votes (57.70%) Against: 66,292 votes (42.30%) Total: 156,720 votes Registered: 644,230 voters % who voted: >= 24.33% Map files from Austin's open data portal & Travis Co. Tax office. Results from Travis Co. Clerk, Williamson Co. Electons, and Hays Co. Elections. Results are not certified. Copyright 2021 Eli H. Spencer Heyman (Twitter: @elium2).
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And this one, which is a rare case of using vertical scrolling through the "page" as a way to effectively produce a slide deck mechanism --- a common trope in data journalism that I normally find annoying as shit --- effectively […]
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![A map titled "The top ticket-writers all received more overtime pay than typical officers in their position".
Visualize below are the 15 officers who wrote at least 100 tickets between July 2022 and June 2023. The top five ticket-writers are shaded in color.
[a map showing the inner ring of Houston (inside loop 610) filled with dots along downtown and west of downtown. One senior officers wrote 5,100+ tickets in the single year sampled.]
[a scatter plot of sorts, showing that typical officer overtime pay is 5,300+ USD, and that typical senior officer overtime pay is 4,700+ USD. The fifth-highest officer that wrote 100+ tickets in the sample period got 10,000+ USD in overtime. The highest such officer earned 50,000+ USD.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shuqggpqwcu7is3cukknopo4/bafkreiehmlvvgmjxjecpwjtw6ogxylwph4muihuw3f3r24tb4rzho3apje)
A map titled "The top ticket-writers all received more overtime pay than typical officers in their position". Visualize below are the 15 officers who wrote at least 100 tickets between July 2022 and June 2023. The top five ticket-writers are shaded in color. [a map showing the inner ring of Houston (inside loop 610) filled with dots along downtown and west of downtown. One senior officers wrote 5,100+ tickets in the single year sampled.] [a scatter plot of sorts, showing that typical officer overtime pay is 5,300+ USD, and that typical senior officer overtime pay is 4,700+ USD. The fifth-highest officer that wrote 100+ tickets in the sample period got 10,000+ USD in overtime. The highest such officer earned 50,000+ USD.]
![Despite Shaggy's six-figure fines, he's not the most ticketed individual in Houston. Jeffery Burton, who spent years living in the Heights, received over 2,000 citations between April 2020 and December 2023.
He received 1,258 tickets for improperly disposing of or accumulating materials, 460 tickets for shopping cart offenses, and 157 tickets for encamping. He also received fewer tickets during that period for disorderly conduct, open burning, having an open container and public urination.
[picture of an animated graphic of a map on the left side, plotting a general area of the city where tickets were given to Shaggy over time, and a bar graph on the right side, showing the accumulating types of tickets over time. "Each movement of the red dot on the map is a new ticket. The right bar chart shows total cumulative tickets. Matt Zdun / Houston Chronicle"]
Those tickets added up to $900,000 in fines and brief stints in jail.
When Burton died in the early hours of Jan. 21, he died under the Heights underpass he could not seem to escape.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shuqggpqwcu7is3cukknopo4/bafkreigzm7w5tp5wulvpseifcejmptq6eupgkjixmyfn6ocwa37rimspq4)
Despite Shaggy's six-figure fines, he's not the most ticketed individual in Houston. Jeffery Burton, who spent years living in the Heights, received over 2,000 citations between April 2020 and December 2023. He received 1,258 tickets for improperly disposing of or accumulating materials, 460 tickets for shopping cart offenses, and 157 tickets for encamping. He also received fewer tickets during that period for disorderly conduct, open burning, having an open container and public urination. [picture of an animated graphic of a map on the left side, plotting a general area of the city where tickets were given to Shaggy over time, and a bar graph on the right side, showing the accumulating types of tickets over time. "Each movement of the red dot on the map is a new ticket. The right bar chart shows total cumulative tickets. Matt Zdun / Houston Chronicle"] Those tickets added up to $900,000 in fines and brief stints in jail. When Burton died in the early hours of Jan. 21, he died under the Heights underpass he could not seem to escape.
An animated map showing ticket locations over time on the left, and a cumulative bar chart on the right, for Shaggy. Each movement of the red dot on the map is a new ticket. Months where there is no red dot indicate there were no new tickets issued. The right bar chart shows total cumulative tickets. Locations have been obscured for privacy reasons. Points are within a couple miles of the true location. Matt Zdun / Houston Chronicle.
A simple bar chart plotting encampment tickets in Houston annually since 2017. 2017 has a label reading "Houston City Council made encamping illegal" and reads 26 encampment tickets. 2018 has 63 tickets, 2019 224 tickets. 2020 has a label that reads "Court case that argued the 2017 law was unconstitutional was dismissed: encampment tickets rose." 2020 indeed shows a sharp increase to 1.1K tickets. 2021 also at 1.1K tickets. 2022 and 2023 at 1.5K tickets.
Finally, two excellent data-driven journalism pieces. The first one:
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>Houstonians who cannot afford basic housing currently owe more than $9.5 million in fines from 2020-2024 […]
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>As Houston phases out public housing, former Kelly Court families share memories of how it shaped them
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>Ron “Bubba” Pearson, 72, said on a bench in the shade, chatting with […]
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>It is no longer the standard for authorities who clean up camps to directly offer permanent housing or a spot in the navigation center, officials say. The […]
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>Houston’s national model for reducing homelessness is unraveling | Editorial
Housing first isn't what's unraveling here. It's capitalism. Housing first is not compatible with housing as a […]
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>It blamed the failure of federal disbursements for the program to keep up with rents, which sharply rose in the aftermath of the pandemic. After an unexpected tweak in how federal […]
Meme featuring a man sat a table playing cards, with several other players around the table as well. The table is labelled "una conversación casual" (a casual conversation). The man is raising his hand (with card) above his head, about to strike it down on the table. The hand is labelled "el problema es el capitalismo" (the problem is capitalism).
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>Early that year, Young gave slide presentations to the Houston Rotary Club and other groups with a picture of a cliff at the […]
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>Houston's homelessness strategy, hailed as a success story by other cities, is changing. Here's how.
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>"In Mayor Whitmire's first term, Houston can be the first […]
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>After complaints and a community meeting hosted by the Beacon late last year, the Beacon partnered with Christ Church Cathedral and the […]
>The camp near Minute Maid was actually the reason the navigation center existed in the first place. In 2019, the city, county and partner organizations tried to close it by offering those living there housing. But instead of moving everyone out at the same time – there was no way to line up […]
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>The Houston area started systematically closing camps by offering those living there permanent housing — then clearing the site, usually with fencing to prevent the camp from reforming […]
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>Proponents hope Senate Bill 1164 will allow for interventions before there is an immediate danger — because by then, it can be too late. Walter Macias said he […]
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Taylor Scott has been Designated for Assignment and Logan Van Wey has been recalled. I called this one yesterday, they can clear a spot on the 40 man roster
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I was a newspaper reporter (eventually editor) for years (and if I got paid every time I mentioned that fact, I wouldn’t have to be anything anymore), and I was taught from the word Go that the lede of one’s story is unexaggeratably vital, and it must stand out amidst the other noise on the page (analog or digital) and ‘grab’ the reader. The word they used to communicate this idea was nearly always ‘grab,’ or some slight variation on it (and if you’re still here, then at least some part of you had to be wondering why the hell this mouthy trans ginger has a soft spot for Roland Emmerich’s bad films).”
Medium Story : “Me, Myself & Roland Emmerich’s Films | Moonfall (2022) Movie Review”
It’d be really funny if any of you following me didn’t know that I was a #newspaper #reporter & #editor (1st for #HCN, then #Hearst/ #HoustonChronicle) for years, bc I talk about it ALL THE TIME 😆
Here, I impart some wisdom re: a good #lede 🤓
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#TexasGerrymandering #TexasPolitics #DonaldTrump #TexasHouse #fdt #BlueCrew #fdt #ShitshowNews #AustinChronicle #TheMonitor #HoustonChronicle
