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15 April 2009
Texas Watchdog adds Steve McVicker, Rosanna Ruiz to the fold
On the Texas Watchdog site, Trent Seibert announces the addition of two new reporters to the organization: Steve McVicker and Rosanna Ruiz.
Readers here should be familiar with both. Ruiz most recently provided the Chronicle its most critical coverage of METRO in years, before Jeff Cohen apparently decided to de-emphasize the transit beat (and laid her off). McVicker has worked in a number of local newsrooms, providing notable coverage of HPD's crime lab fiasco for the Chronicle (before getting laid off) and, more recently seeing his book made into a bigtime movie starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor.
These are significant additions for Texas Watchdog, and their five journalists may well make up the second biggest metro desk in the city (especially since, as Rich Connelly and the Houston Press drone ad nauseam, KTRH-740 is *gasp* more about conservative talk than news these days, a possibly lamentable fact but something that stopped being news quite a while ago).
Congrats to Texas Watchdog and to Ruiz and McVicker on what should be an interesting partnership. We're looking forward to learning about more METRO deception and funny numbers, not to mention just how many thousand rape-test-kits are sitting in a (leaky?) closet somewhere still waiting to be analyzed several years after the Bromwich Report on the crime lab.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ Steve McVicker, Rosanna Ruiz to the fold"> 04/15/09 07:20 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (2)
04 October 2009
Chron reports on years-long crime-lab backlog; Mayor White is concerned
Way back in April, we commented on Texas Watchdog's announcement they were bringing former Chronsters Steve McVicker (and Rosanna Ruiz) on board as follows:
We're looking forward to learning about more METRO deception and funny numbers, not to mention just how many thousand rape-test-kits are sitting in a (leaky?) closet somewhere still waiting to be analyzed several years after the Bromwich Report on the crime lab.
We haven't seen much Watchdogging Texas from McVicker*, but the Houston Chronicle finally got around to answering our question a couple of days ago:
Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal first broke, city officials acknowledged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and other crime evidence remain untested for DNA.
According to HPD Crime Lab Director Irma Rios, that untested evidence stored in the property room includes a backlog of 1,048 active cases where police investigators have asked for DNA testing.
We're glad somebody finally decided to answer the question of whether the crime lab has cleared its backlog of cases. And we are glad Mayor Bill White told the Chronicle that he is concerned about the years-long backlog -- obviously it's been a priority for him!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime-lab backlog; Mayor White is concerned"> 10/04/09 08:55 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (4)
29 October 2007
Layoffs at the Chronicle -- both voluntary and involuntary
Via Houstoned (and Banjo), we learn some of what went on at 801 Texas Avenue today:
Among the familiar names taking the buyouts are Louis B. Parks of the features section and Salatheia Bryant and Melanie Markley of the news side.
Among those leaving in a less voluntary manner are Steve McVicker, the former Houston Press reporter who’s been bird-dogging the HPD crime-lab scandal, and Thomas Korosec, the former Dallas Observer reporter who has been the Chron’s Dallas bureau.
Melanie Markley did the fine reporting on Mayor White's shakedown of the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation, and as Rich Connelly notes, Steve McVicker was doggedly keeping after the crime lab story. Did the Chronicle just give away a Pulitzer opportunity?
What a disappointing day. It's hard to comprehend that this is more valuable than Markley's or McVicker's contributions to the Chronicle; all we can do is shake our heads as upper management continues to make poor editorial decisions. And in this case, those decisions have affected the livelihoods of hard-working folks. We wish them the best in finding new opportunities.
UPDATE (10-30-2007): Banjo Jones posts an update with more names:
In addition to the names we posted yesterday, the additional buyouts/layoffs include:
Andrew Guy (features), Judy Minshew (editorial), Valarie White (business secretary), Bruce Westbrook (features) and Patty Reinert in Washington, we're told.
Westbrook, we're further informed, was laid off (as opposed to taking a voluntary buyout) and will sue for age discrimination [UPDATE (10-31-2007): Banjo Jones posts that Westbrook informs him this is not true]; we're not sure if the other people named today were involuntary or not.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 10/29/07 08:50 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Comments (7)
01 June 2005
Report details more problems with HPD crime lab
The Chronicle's Roma Khanna and Steve McVicker report on the latest damning revelations about the HPD crime lab:
Houston Police Department crime lab analysts fabricated findings in at least four drug cases, an independent investigator reported Tuesday, including one in which a scientist performed no tests before issuing conclusions that supported a police officer's suspicions.
[snip]
The report, released Tuesday, also casts doubt, for the first time, on the laboratory's largest division, controlled substances, which tests substances suspected of being drugs and performs about 75 percent of HPD's forensics work. The latest problems bring to five the number of crime lab disciplines where errors have been exposed — including DNA, toxicology, ballistics and the blood-typing science of serology.
" 'Drylabbing' is the most egregious form of scientific misconduct that can occur in a forensic laboratory," Michael Bromwich, a former U.S. Justice Department official leading an investigation of the HPD lab, wrote in the report.
"In the crime lab, the instances of drylabbing took the form of controlled substances analysts creating false documentation intended to reflect analytical procedures that were never performed."
Investigators reported finding four instances between 1998 and 2000 in which two analysts, whom they do not name, issued findings for tests they never conducted.
In each case, the analysts' supervisors caught the misrepresentations before the evidence could be introduced in court.
The supervisory structure of the crime lab is criticized in the report:
The report cited the absence of strong leadership and quality-control procedures as major reasons for DNA lab problems. Analysts in the crime lab complained to then-Police Chief C.O. Bradford about the lack of supervision as early as 1999, according to documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle in June 2003.
The legacy of Lee P. Brown and Clarence Bradford just keeps growing.
RELATED COVERAGE: Associated Press.
UPDATE (06-01-2005): KHOU-11 helpfully posts pdf files of the actual report. Additional documentation is located at the official investigator's site.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime lab"> 06/01/05 06:28 AM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (5)
Crime lab investigator moves to next phase
KUHF-88.7's Jack Williams reports that yesterday's revelation that the HPD crime lab faked some test results may only be a precursor of more bad news to come later this summer:
The man in charge of investigating the Houston Police Department's Crime Lab says a new phase of his probe later this summer could uncover even more trouble, beyond his early finding that lab workers faked test results.
Independent investigator Michael Bromwich has been on the job for the past eight weeks and says the next phase of his investigation will begin in early July and include more in depth reviews of cases that involved forensic testing.
[snip]
One of the labworkers who was found to have fabricated test results has left the department. The other one still works in the lab under tighter supervision.
Isn't it reassuring to know that a crime-lab worker can fabricate test results that potentially are about life and death, and still remain employed by the City of Houston, no doubt accruing generous pension benefits?
The Brown/Bradford legacy continues to grow.
UPDATE (06-02-2005): The Chronicle runs additional coverage from Steve McVicker.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ Crime lab investigator moves to next phase"> 06/01/05 11:19 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (0)
02 March 2005
HPD crime lab fails to gain accreditation
The Chronicle's Steve McVicker reports that the Houston Police Department has failed in its latest attempt to gain accreditation for the crime lab:
A national panel rejected the Houston Police Department's effort to have its troubled crime laboratory accredited by the end of February.
In a meeting Saturday in New Orleans, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors told HPD lab director Irma Rios that auditors had found problems with the evidence chain-of-custody record-keeping.[snip]
On Feb. 16, Police Chief Harold Hurtt told state lawmakers investigating the crime lab that he hoped to have it accredited by the end of February.
On Tuesday, state Reps. Kevin Bailey, D-Houston, and Robert Talton, R-Pasadena, filed a bill that would establish regional DNA crime labs that would be overseen by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
[snip]
"It's two years later and they still can't get accredited," the state lawmaker said. "You don't see any real evidence that they're making a whole lot of progress."
In all fairness, Mayor White and Chief Hurtt have been very busy with other priorities, such as Tasers, red-light cameras, SAFEclear, and the like.
We're sure, though, that the sky is the limit now that Chief Hurtt is in uniform.
Laurence Simon has further thoughts on this news.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime lab fails to gain accreditation"> 03/02/05 07:26 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (1)
31 May 2006
House committee to assist Bromwich with subpoenas
The Chronicle's Steve McVicker reports that three key witnesses who have thus far refused to answer questions from Michael Bromwich about the HPD crime lab may soon be compelled to do so by a Texas House committee:
Three recalcitrant witnesses believed to hold key information concerning the root of problems at the Houston Police Department crime lab could soon be forced to tell what they know.
Michael Bromwich, the city's independent investigator, and Rep. Kevin Bailey, D-Houston, chairman of the House Committee on General Investigating and Ethics, confirmed Tuesday that an unorthodox agreement has been reached that would let Bromwich use the committee's subpoena power to compel the uncooperative former lab employees to testify under oath.
"We're pleased we've been able to reach an agreement with Chairman Bailey and the members of his committee that will advance our investigation," Bromwich said.
In his latest report on the crime lab released earlier this month, Bromwich, a former U.S. Justice Department inspector general, said DNA and serology analysts may have tailored their findings to support predetermined crime theories.
Bromwich also complained that the probe by his team of forensic investigators has been hindered by an absence of cooperation from three ex-crime lab employees: former lab supervisor Don Krueger, former DNA lab chief James Bolding and former analyst Christy Kim.
Krueger retired in February 2003 after the DNA section's widespread problems were exposed. Former Police Chief C.O. Bradford later recommended that Krueger be fired for his role in the lab's problems. Bolding resigned in 2003 to avoid being fired. Kim was fired, but the Civil Service Commission re-instated her and she later retired.
It will be useful finally to have detailed testimony from these three former employees.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Bromwich investigation.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/31/06 09:39 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (0)
03 January 2006
It's not pretty?
KHOU-11's Amy Tortolani reports the following:
There's another scathing report on Houston's troubled crime lab -- this time from the man hired by the city to help uncover the problems there.
Former Inspector General Michael Bromwich looked for errors dating back to 1987. The results of his report aren't out yet, but 11 News has learned it's not pretty.
That's it. No details. Just "it's not pretty."
UPDATE (01-04-2006): The Chronicle's Steve McVicker reports on the latest report from the Bromwich investigation, released today. The report is available on the investigation website.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/03/06 10:44 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (3)
08 January 2006
HPD crime lab back in the news
We've previously noted the deficiencies in the Houston Chronicle's reporting and editorializing on the Bromwich investigation into the HPD crime lab, so it's no surprise that the newspaper's recent coverage of the Fourth Bromwich report (issued Friday) has some problems.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime lab back in the news"> 01/08/06 10:45 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (5)
18 August 2005
Fleck knocks down Chron "firewall" between news/editorial
Back on August 4, we noted the delay in the Bromwich investigation of the HPD crime lab, and wrote,
The Chronicle editorial board is really going to have to stretch to blame this on Harris Country District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal.
A full two weeks later, the Chronicle editorial board finally got around to commenting on the matter, with a clumsy rhetorical effort that goes pretty easy on Chron "good guy" Bill White while taking shots at Chron "bad guy" Chuck Rosenthal:
Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal says he is willing to allocate money from one of several discretionary funds at his disposal to pay a portion of the crime lab probe costs. "I'm a resident of the city of Houston and I don't want the money coming out of HPD's budget," Rosenthal said.
He also says he wants to resolve the crime lab issue quickly because he doesn't feel it's as serious as has been reported. The Chronicle believes the scandal, with its faked or botched lab tests, inaccurate testimony and mishandled evidence pertaining to thousands of cases, some of them capital murder convictions obtained by Harris County prosecutors, is deadly serious.
The scandal IS serious, but until the investigation is complete, we will not know definitively if the crime lab's problems significantly affected the delivery of justice in Harris County.
Today's related "news" story by the Chronicle's Steve McVicker contains an assertion from a defense attorney that Chuck Rosenthal's motives in helping to get the crime lab investigation moving are suspect:
Although he would not say how much money he is offering, Rosenthal said Wednesday that he has contacted city officials about the possibility of using discretionary funds — such as drug-seizure money — to help underwrite the HPD probe.
Rosenthal acknowledged that he has a "selfish" motive for wanting to get the crime-lab investigation back on track: "I'd like to see it done just to get a resolution to this because I don't feel like there's been the immediacy or the problem that's been painted by y'all and the other media as to how bad things are."
To Houston defense lawyer Troy McKinney, Rosenthal's remarks are indicative of the overall crime-lab problem.
"They continue to take the attitude that any problems are isolated, and only anecdotal, even though there is a tremendous quantity of evidence that the problems are pervasive and continue," McKinney said.
If the crime lab's problems "are pervasive and continue," then how in the world has the crime lab under the current leadership managed to gain accreditation in all areas but DNA testing?
In reality, the excerpt we've cited seems intended as a shot at Chuck Rosenthal -- and it doesn't seem fair or accurate in light of the crime lab's recent accreditation. The defense attorney's assertions NEVER should have made it into a credible "news" story without the reporter at least pointing out the crime lab's accreditation (which would go a long way toward refuting the quote, which leads us back to the notion that the quote NEVER should have appeared in a credible "news" story).
But therein lies the problem. Sedosi Alhambra noticed this curious credit at the bottom of the "news" story:
Chronicle staffer Tim Fleck contributed to this report.
Tim Fleck is not just any "Chronicle staffer." Tim Fleck is a member of the Chronicle editorial board!
So, not only did the Chronicle run an editorial today that took a cheap shot at Chuck Rosenthal, it also ran a "news" story in which it used a suspect quote from a defense attorney to take a cheap shot at Chuck Rosenthal, a "news" story to which an editorial board member contributed!
So much for that "division between the opinion pages and the news pages" that one Chronicle editor/blogger once pointed out to us.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/18/05 11:03 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Comments (0)
06 June 2005
Banking industry mysteries on the Chron letters page
Anne Linehan commented earlier on the HISD angle to a letter printed in today's Chronicle.
There's another problem with that letter, a problem that's consistent with the newspaper's long-term treatment of Harris County DA and apparent "bad guy" Chuck Rosenthal.
Here's the relevant excerpt:
In the Chronicle's June 3 article ``HISD wrong to probe case itself, DA says,'' Rosenthal said HISD should have requested help from an outside law enforcement agency as soon as its investigation into consulting contracts uncovered potential criminal acts. And this is the same district attorney who refused for months to agree to an independent investigation of the Houston Police crime lab? How many people have been wrongly imprisoned due to the lab's shoddy work?
I see a double standard here.
LEE L. KAPLAN, Houston
This blog forced the Chronicle to issue a correction not that long ago for running a letter that mischaracterized Rosenthal's position on the crime lab, but apparently it is not a standard practice in the banking industry for people like letters editor Judy Minshew to learn from past mistakes. Just to be clear on Rosenthal's position on the crime lab, here is what he told blogHOUSTON back in October:
... I followed up with Rosenthal, who explained that he actually had called for a Blue Ribbon Review panel to review the crime lab (which Judge Robert Eckels supported but then-Mayor Lee Brown opposed), and that he later wrote to then-police chief Joe Brashears urging a review of the entire crime lab. He admits that he has refused to recuse himself "unless there was evidence that any of my staff was involved in wrongdoing" and contends he's just doing the job he was elected to do. He has also opposed a "Cleveland plan" style review, contending that it is not appropriate to Houston's circumstance.
The letter writer certainly is right to ask about double standards, but (like the Chronicle) is too focused on Chuck Rosenthal, whose office is put in a real bind because of the crime lab fiasco.
Here's a better question: Why is the Houston Chronicle not more focused on the roles of former police chief Clarence Bradford and former mayor Lee Brown in said fiasco?
UPDATE: Steve McVicker writes about the latest crime-lab developments on Chron.com. Of course, it wouldn't be a Chronicle story if an earlier version hadn't included an error related to Chuck Rosenthal, but at least the newspaper deserves credit for a transparent correction (would we be nitpicking to suggest the proper spelling of "discrepancies?" Probably).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/06/05 09:31 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Comments (0)
14 October 2007
Harris County criminal judges to review crime-lab cases identified by Bromwich
At the end of the week, the Chronicle's Roma Khanna and Steve McVicker reported that Harris County criminal district judges plan to review 180 crime-lab cases identified by Michael Bromwich as potentially troubling in his investigation of HPD's Crime Lab:
Days after the release of a man wrongfully convicted on faulty forensics, Harris County criminal district judges are poised to appoint a panel to review 180 cases with problematic Houston crime lab evidence, ending a dispute about how to scrutinize those cases.
Local officials have argued about how best to address those cases since June, when an independent investigator recommended appointing a "special master" to review cases with questionable body fluid testing known as serology from the scandal-plagued Houston Police Department crime lab.
Mayor Bill White, Police Chief Harold Hurtt and top prosecutor Chuck Rosenthal dismissed the need for an outsider for the serology review, saying the cases could be handled within the existing system.
But others, including state legislators and criminal defense attorneys, pressed the need for a consolidated, independent review. Just this week, a man freed after serving 14 years for a rape he did not commit urged the City Council to take action saying, "something must be done."
At a routine administrative meeting Wednesday, Harris County's criminal district judges prepared to take action.
They plan to assign three defense attorneys to determine the importance of crime lab evidence to the 180 convictions and act accordingly. Those three likely will report to retired Judge Mary Bacon. Bacon will conduct teleconferences beginning Oct. 22 with 160 of the defendants in those cases, inform them of the issues with their cases and determine whether the defendants want their cases reviewed.
State District Judge Olen Underwood, the presiding judge over the judicial region that includes Harris County, must approve the project. It will be paid for with county funds.
As the story indicates, Mayor White and Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal had resisted Bromwich's recommendation for the appointment of an independent special master, arguing that existing institutions could best review the cases. We've never thought a second (or third, or fourth) set of independent eyes could actually hurt the case review process, however -- and that it quite likely could help.
In light of the week's events surrounding the release of the unjustly incarcerated Ronald Taylor, we can't view this move by Harris County judges as anything but welcome.
RELATED: Mix-up on DNA deals HPD lab another blow (Mike Tolson & Roma Khanna, Houston Chronicle), Freed man's case was forged by chain of errors (Roma Khanna, Houston Chronicle), Making it right: New panel must quickly attack crime lab's festering injustices (Houston Chronicle).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime-lab cases identified by Bromwich"> 10/14/07 02:58 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (3)
16 August 2005
HPD announces more property room discoveries
KHOU-11's Jeremy Desel reports that evidence from a number of capital murder cases has recently been discovered in HPD's property room:
Dozens of boxes of evidence were found in the HPD property room last year during the investigation into problems at the HPD crime lab.
Investigators have been combing over each piece of evidence -- 700,000 so far -- and they recently found evidence linked to the capital murder cases.
The findings may have come too late for one person already executed.
Ponchai Wilkerson was sent to death row for a 1990 murder during a jewelry store robbery. The evidence was a car baby seat. It's relation to the case isn't clear. Wilkerson's attorneys didn't request the evidence during the trial.
District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said that at least in the Wilkerson case, the evidence may not have made any impact.
"It appears that it is very tangential. In fact, nonessential to any given matter in Mr. Wilkerson's case, which is good from our standpoint," he said.
[snip]
Evidence also turned up in the 1987 case of Warren Rivers. He lured an 11-year-old boy to his home, sexually assaulted him, mutilated him with a broomstick and stabbed him to death. The evidence found in that case is clothing, a towel and a knife.
The third case of evidence involves Robert Campbell. He kidnapped Alexandra Rendon from a gas station in 1991, raped her, then shot her to death. The evidence is a cigarette butt which defense attorneys had asked for during the appeals process.
The city needs to stop dragging its feet on the next phase of the Bromwich investigation of the HPD crime lab and get it moving forward.
UPDATE (08-17-2005): Steve McVicker and Roma Khanna cover the story for the Chronicle.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/16/05 11:38 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (0)
17 April 2005
Regional crime lab law dead; sponsor blames HPD chief
The Chronicle's Steve McVicker reports that a bill that would have created regional DNA labs to process evidence will not be passed during the legislative session.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Kevin Bailey (D), lays the blame on Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt:
"The single-most important thing that can be done in order to improve the quality of forensic evidence used at criminal trials is the one thing the Legislature appears not to be doing," said David Dow, a University of Houston Law School professor and a frequent critic of the Texas criminal justice system.
State Rep. Kevin Bailey, D-Houston, sponsor of the bill, blamed its demise on last-minute demands by Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt.Bailey stopped just short of accusing Hurtt of intentionally sabotaging the legislation.
"I don't know for sure, but it's certainly a possibility," Bailey said.
[snip]
[A]ccording to Bailey, during a committee meeting March 30, he was given a copy of the chief's prepared remarks just minutes before testimony was to begin.
Bailey said he learned that Hurtt's support for the legislation was contingent on several conditions, including a reduced fee for HPD evidence processed by the lab and a guaranteed turnaround time on evidence analysis.
Chief Hurtt, on the other hand, denies that he helped to kill the bill:
"The last thing I heard from (Bailey) was that we would be able to work around any problems (in the bill)," Hurtt said. "I supported the bill, I still support it, and I'm disappointed that it's dead."
Without more detail, it's hard to know whether Hurtt intentionally sabotaged this legislation, if Hurtt unintentionally sabotaged the legislation simply through the White/Hurtt team's ineptitude in dealing with the state legislature, or if Bailey had some other reason to scuttle the legislation.
What is clear is that one potential state solution to Houston's crime lab problems will now have to wait until the next legislative session.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ crime lab law dead; sponsor blames HPD chief"> 04/17/05 11:32 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Comments (0)
20 December 2007
Jeff Cohen named NPF editor of the year
Word reaches us that Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen has been named Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation.
Here is an excerpt from the organization's announcement:
Jeff Cohen joined the Houston Chronicle in June 2002 as executive vice president and editor, overseeing the newspaper’s English and Spanish editions and its Web site, chron.com.
Under his leadership, each section of the paper has seen a marked change. There is a greater emphasis on lively, engaging writing and a tighter focus on local topical issues as well as the broad themes that define the nation’s fourth largest city. During his tenure, the features and sports sections have been recognized by their peers as among the best in the country. The newspaper, along with its accompanying Web site, has been redesigned top to bottom. It has added a sister Spanish-language weekly, La Voz, and successfully launched niche publications in fashion and health.
Cohen directed the Chronicle’s coverage of some of the biggest news events in Houston’s recent history: hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Enron trials, the space shuttle Columbia disaster and a scandal in the police department’s DNA lab that resulted in the release from prison of three innocent men.
Cohen also has embraced the digital revolution. Over the last five years, chron.com has grown into one of the top newspaper Web sites for breaking news, video features, staff and reader blogs and overall reader interaction. The site’s animated editorial cartoons have attracted national attention and made the newspaper’s cartoonist a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007.
Some of us who actually read the newspaper carefully on a daily basis can't help but wonder about that praise of the features and sports sections (or for that matter, the irony of praising the HPD crime lab reporting by Steve McVicker, who is no longer with the newspaper due to the latest round of layoffs); but then again, we aren't the sorts of pros who determine these sorts of awards. Under Cohen's leadership, though, there is no doubt that the newspaper has stressed its online presence (and breaking news online), and it has also reworked its Austin bureau in a sensible way -- both positives.
The awards ceremony will apparently take place in February in Washington, D.C. We hope that the weather allows the editor a good round of golf while he's in the D.C. area (on the NPF's dime!). Maybe Julie Mason can even liveblog the awards ceremony, and give her boss the sort of treatment she regularly gives other important world leaders!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/20/07 09:36 AM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Comments (11)
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