Chronicle highlights.
Some interesting stuff in the Houston Chronicle yesterday and today. First off, today’s frontpager, College parents find it hard to let go, featuring a number of cute Rice stories:
“I don’t want to find any of you hiding in the hedges tonight,” Leebron told a concert hall filled with parents Sunday.
But not everyone is ready to leave. Rekha Malhotra, of Fort Collins, Colo., cried as her youngest son, Parteek, unpacked his belongings.
“I have to call her every day,” Parteek said. “I thought she was joking at first.”
Move It!: Points to Ponder about Metro.
Culberson is fond of calling Metro’s post-election attraction to Richmond a bait and switch. Translation: Previous Metro leaders left Richmond off the ballot for tactical reasons, intending to resurrect it if the measure passed. Thus “Metro created this dilemma,” as he said recently.
The same kind of thinking — cynical or just reasonably suspicious? — might lead others to conclude that Culberson baited the trap by insisting that the routes be spelled out as a condition of his support, then kept quiet as Metro walked into it.
Let’s assume instead that both Culberson and Metro are acting in good faith.
Finally, on Sunday, an editorial calling for VVPATs (voter-verifiable paper audit trails; the ed refers to them simply as VVPBs—”… ballots”) in Texas voting machines, and an op-ed rebuttal by County Clerk Beverly Kaufman.