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Mike Snyder

@snyderwrites.bsky.social
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Occasional freelance writer, enthusiastic loafer. Worked continuously at daily newspapers for 43 years.

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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Excellent reporting, clear writing and (often overlooked) good editing in this Houston Chronicle story by Ryan Nickerson; www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Texts from John Whitmire reveal how he shaped bike lane removals, road projects
Text messages from Mayor John Whitmire reveal he has strategically shaped the narrative around key road projects and bike lane removals across the city.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Bill Mintz, the leader of this fine organization, was a Chronicle reporter in a previous life. He was my partner on the City Hall beat in the ‘80s.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The @houstonlanding.bsky.social is going out with a bang, dropping ambitious reports on the impact of Houston’s Vietnamese community and the impending area garbage crisis. houstonlanding.org
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This never gets old
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Once in a while a newspaper story enters the realm of literature.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
When I saw the deadline I thought the piece was about this excellent writer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_R._...
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Joe R. Lansdale - Wikipedia
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excellent analysis of how the brakes have been applied in booming suburbs such as Sugar Land and Pearland, by SamGonzalez-Kelly www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...
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After decades of growth, the population is falling in some of Houston's largest suburbs. Here's why.
Since 2019, Sugar Land's population has dropped by nearly 10,000 residents, a loss of more than 8% of its population.
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kenduque @kenduque.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
More Texas oil and gas wells are leaking. Will taxpayers have to cover the $100M cost to plug them? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
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Will taxpayers have to cover Texas’ leaking oil gas and wells?
As Texas takes on more high-cost leaking wells, the oil and gas well plugging program is outgrowing the traditional funding model, budget documents show.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I agree, but: Never use exclamation points
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
(1/2) Two friends and former colleagues, Alan Bernstein (houstonalanbernstein.substack.com) and Ronnie Crocker, (allmytexas.substack.com) have recently started Substack newsletters. Both are fine writers worthy of your attention.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This byline signals an automatic read for me. Chistof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social is one of Houston’s most original thinkers. Also, he knows a lot about trains. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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Trains put Houstonians in danger. Here's what we need to do.
Houston grew up around locomotives. Milby High School student death crossing train tracks is a reminder we need to upgrade our rail system.
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Dug Begley @dugbegley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Janis Scott, a fixture of community meetings and public lectures who was lovingly called “the bus lady” by four generations of Houstonians, died Monday. She was 73. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Janis Scott, Houston's 'bus lady' and public transit advocate, dies at 73
A fixture in Houston, Scott was a near-lifetime bus rider, though there was that time in the 80s when she bought a car. It didn't last.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Quite a scoop here by @amari-clare.bsky.social in @houstonlanding.bsky.social houstonlanding.org/harris-outgo...
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Harris’ outgoing district attorney recommends ‘unprecedented’ plea in capital murder cases
Critics said the ‘blanket recommendation’ of life without parole could be inappropriate in certain cases and confuse victims’ families.
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Mike Snyder @snyderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Just joined up here after deactivating the account linked to the space/electric car/destroy government dude. We'll see what happens, as someone likes to say.
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