March 2007 - Page 2 of 8

The Professors talk Harris County politics

March 27, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Professors R-Squared speculate that municipal housing guru and Friend of Bill David Mincberg will be the Democratic nominee for Harris County Judge in 2008, and they warn the Harris County GOP that they’d best

Rodeo-related boardings just one measure of transit-system health

March 26, 2007 Kevin Whited

METRO’s Sit and Spin blog recently posted about the light-rail trolley’s record ridership during this year’s rodeo: On Thursday, March 15, we had the highest, single-day number of passenger boardings in METRORail’s history – 64,448

But what about his moonlighting as an opinion columnist?

March 26, 2007 Kevin Whited

Bob Richter, the public editor for Hearst’s San Antonio newspaper (the Express-News), wrote about the merger of the Austin bureaus of the Chronicle and Express-News this weekend. Richter’s (good corporate) take is that even though

Bloody weekend

March 25, 2007 Kevin Whited

KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey posts that it was a deadly weekend in Houston. Carey apparently received six email blasts from HPD (so far) this weekend notifying local media of murders. Unfortunately, blogHOUSTON doesn’t receive those handy

McGuff interviews KTRK's Ed Brandon

March 25, 2007 Kevin Whited

Mike McGuff has posted an absolutely fascininating interview with Ed Brandon, the longtime KTRK-13 weatherman. There’s a little bit of EVERYTHING in this interview — Brandon’s heart issues, Steve Olafson/Banjo Jones, Dan Patrick, Austin in

Metro's transparency in action (cont'd)

March 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

Rad Sallee reports that our local quasi-governmental transit agency is at it again: Four Near Northside residents pleaded with the Metro board Thursday not to leave them in limbo, as one put it, about its

Someone tell Peter Brown that utility poles can come in handy

March 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

Isiah Carey has pictures of the city’s new wi-fi thingys (technical name: mesh routers) which will be placed on utility poles, and this has Isiah concerned: My concern is that it may bother Houston council

A new look for the Bill White Vermin And Solid Waste Memorial Park

March 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

Mike McGuff says things aren’t looking so good around the George R. Brown Convention Center right now as construction for Discovery Green has left giant piles of dirt in the GRB’s parking lot. Can we

The sound of nitwits (cont'd)

March 23, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Dale Lezon checks in on the latest legal activity from the local radio lunatic fringe: A Houston peace activist and board member of public radio station KPFT-FM (90.1) filed suit this week after

White defends airport parking perk for elected officials

March 23, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles got Mayor White to comment on the slow-news-week revelation by KTRK-13 earlier this week that elected officials enjoy parking perks at the Houston Airport system: Mayor Bill White defended the free-parking