The Editorial LiveJournalists: Houston's daily entertainment source
The Editorial LiveJournalists run a couple of stellar editorials today.
There's the obligatory "olds":
Federal law doesn't waste a lot of words on inner peace. But urban green spaces inspire an exception. These places, federal statute says, "are lands on which serenity and quiet are of extraordinary significance, and serve an important public need." To defend them, the law requires agencies such as the Texas Department of Transportation to plan noise abatement when starting a new project. But a trick of timing — and possibly willful neglect — exempted TxDOT from this duty in Houston.
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Carol and Bill Ware, who live in the area and use Memorial Park, have filed a lawsuit against TxDOT. Based on their research, the couple argues that highway noise at the interchange of I-10 and I-610 far exceeds federal limits. They're asking U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal to order an independent noise analysis of the area and oversee the needed noise mitigation.
KPRC-2 reported on this story nearly three weeks ago, which was noted here and on other local websites. Leave it to the Editorial LiveJournalists to be three weeks behind on local news!
But at least that was a substantive local political/legal matter. The foray of the Editorial LiveJournalists into sports commentary today was funny:
While fans in some cities cheered their pro football teams on to victory in the playoffs, the unexpected collapse of the Texans last fall turned Houston fans into boo birds who rooted for more defeats in order to secure the NFL's top draft pick. In finishing 2-14, the team also opened the door for championship quality leadership on the sidelines as well.
Now that former local schoolboy and Texas A&M star quarterback Gary Kubiak has come home to be the Texans head coach, fans once again can make the Sunday drive to Reliant Stadium with a strong expectation of success.
Much as University of Houston All-American and National Basketball Association star Clyde Drexler returned to the city a decade ago to help win a second world championship for the Houston Rockets, the 44-year-old Kubiak's homecoming signals better days for a 4-year-old franchise....
Clyde Drexler probably wasn't the best example for this editorial about the Texans' new coach, given Drexler's own disastrous stint as the head basketball coach at the University of Houston (he won about one-third of his games). Sometimes hometown sports heroes don't produce glory as hometown coaches. There are no guarantees, as the Drexler example illustrates.
A while back, we called the Chronicle editorial page irrelevant. It's probably time to revise that assessment. The Editorial LiveJournalists have become more humorous over time, even if it's not intentional -- so much so that we've begun to think of them as Houston's daily entertainment source.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/11/06 12:52 PM | Print |
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