Slampo rains on the Project Row Houses parade
Crazy bloggers.
Sometimes they just can't resist providing a little... what is that word?
Perspective. Yeah, that's it. But I've gotten a little ahead of myself.
Backtrack to December 17, when the New York Times ran a fawning feature on Houston's Project Row Houses.
Not to be outdone, the Editorial LiveJournalists swung into action for the Chronicle's December 20 edition:
The Third Ward, and the whole city, got an early Christmas gift this month when City Council approved a $975,000 grant to Project Row Houses. The "zero interest performance-based loan,"as it's called, allows founder Rick Lowe and his staff to add 16 low-income rental units to their nonprofit complex.
The project's swath of Holman Street "may be the most impressive and visionary public art project in the country," the New York Times declared on Sunday. But the project's import is hardly news to the 150 artists who have worked from its restored shotgun house/studios, or the 40 young mothers who have moved toward self-sufficiency in the project's affordable-housing units. It's also little surprise to the ever-rippling circles of Third Ward residents and other Houstonians who've been nourished by visits to the place.
While practically gushing over the "zero interest performance-based loan" (known to some as a giveaway -- and an interesting priority for Mayor White and his Council), the Editorial LiveJournalists neglected one very interesting bit of news that did not escape the notice of Houston's best blogger, Slampo:
And somehow, in its giddy celebration of Project Row Houses’ big score at City Hall, the Chronicle failed to note a somewhat discouraging word about the project that was buried back in the newspaper a month ago. That was the “news” that Project Row House’s longtime financial director, Lajuanda Malone, had pleaded guilty to felony theft of more than $200,000 from the nonprofit and was tagged, as the paper put it in an uncharacteristically raffish turn of phrase, with “10 years in the state penitentiary” (is there not more than one?).
That's surely interesting! And Slampo has more. More perspective, if you will. A needed perspective on this story that's curiously missing from any MSM outlet in town.
It's good that sometimes lowly bloggers can supply some of that, even if they don't reside in the ideal state of one James Howard Gibbons.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/22/06 10:49 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (4)
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