Evan Mintz

Chuck Mangione is no longer with us. I bought his album in the featured photo over 40 years ago. The album includes his hit tune “Feels So Good.”

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As a Chron hard copy subscriber, I know that Evan Mintz is now the Chron’s Editor for Opinion and Community Engagement. Here is the start of his opening take:

Headline:

Mintz: As the Chronicle’s new opinion editor, I promise to be incredibly biased

Forget Democrats vs. Republicans. The real political divide is Good for Houston vs. Bad for Houston.

The beginning of his take:

As I step into my role leading the Houston Chronicle’s opinion section, I want to make one solemn promise: We’re going to be incredibly biased.

Too late, you might be muttering.

After all, plenty of critics already accuse the Chronicle of leaning liberal. Yes, I have seen your comments about the “Houston Communisticle.” Take it up with the readers convinced we give unfair cover to conservatives. 

But that’s not the kind of bias I mean.

I mean that we will be biased for Houston. Biased for all of our multi-county, urban-suburban, Gulf Coast blob.

Too much commentary tries to shove local issues into a national partisan framework — like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Try to understand Houston’s energy economy through the usual red-blue dichotomy, and you’ll be baffled to hear our oil and gas executives honestly discussing a low-carbon future. The coalitions at City Hall don’t make much sense if you try to put a D or R next to members’ names.

At the Chronicle, we look at nearly every issue through a local lens — with a focus on how it affects the people who live here. Our priority is the politics, business, and culture of Houston.

What does that look like in practice?

See here for his entire take: As the Chronicle’s new opinion editor, I promise to be biased.

I think I have met Evan a couple of times. He will do a good job. We need an editorial page that is on its game.

Please subscribe.

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Trib reporter @Owen_Dahlkamp tweeted this:

John Cornyn called for a special counsel investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the Russia probe.

He was previously part of a bipartisan Senate panel that concluded Russia posed a threat to the 2016 election.

I guess Cornyn feels he has to go to dirtbag level to beat the cheating, crooked Ken Paxton.

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Jon Singleton was in the Astros starting line-up last night. Singleton played for us in 2014, 2015, 2023, 2024, and now in 2025. He has 29 career dingers. That is all you need to know.  We lost last night.