Yesterday was the second of the Super Tuesdays for this Presidential Election year and included primary elections in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont. Houstonist could careless about who wins. We're just excited to see the record turnout at the polls. We all win when that happens. Congratulations, Houston, and all you Texans that don't live in our kickass town. According to Wikipedia - stop laughing - Super Tuesday...refers to the Tuesday in February......

Cross your fingers, folks. This year might be the end of the Chronicle's 106-year-long Pulitzer losing streak. That's right -- the Houston Chronicle is the only newspaper among the country's ten largest to have never won a Pulitzer Prize. However, according to an unofficial leaked list of this year's finalists, Nick Anderson, editorial cartoonist, might end the dry spell. Anderson is already a Pulitzer winner, you see. He's only been with the Chronicle since last......

More today on the selection of "Discovery Green" as the name of the new downtown park: The name was the brainchild of Kim Borja, an accountant for Pappas Restaurants, and park officials liked it so much that it was the only name they forwarded to Mayor Bill White. Wow. "I definitely wanted something other than 'park' in the name, so I decided on 'green,'" said Borja, who hasn't yet claimed his prizes — a signed......

So this is pretty cool, but has the potential for a really unfortunate result: The Houston Downtown Park Conservancy, the folks in charge of building the new downtown park in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center, is inviting the public to name the park. "Tapping the public to name the downtown park was a natural decision by the Conservancy," said Nancy G. Kinder, Chair, Houston Downtown Park Conservancy. "The interest and excitement......