October 2009 - Page 13 of 14

Bill White's 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (#4)

October 11, 2009 Kevin Whited

Put a band-aid on the city’s pension obligations early on, then ignore them. Lots of money “saved,” cha-ching! We are referring, of course, to the massive unfunded liability at the Houston municipal employees pension fund*,

Chron: METRO bigwigs, light-rail contractors really like Gene Locke (updated)

October 10, 2009 Kevin Whited

Recently, mayoral candidate Peter Brown promised to fire METRO bigwigs Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson and David Wolff if elected mayor.* Mayoral candidate Annise Parker chimed in with a somewhat more subdued “me too” in her

Mayor White backtracks from Mayor White: immigration screening program

October 10, 2009 Anne Linehan

Oh sure, he’s already backtracked from this once before, but now he really, really means it (via the Chron’s Susan Carroll): White, who is running for U.S. Senate, now appears to be backing away from

Pot, Kettle….

October 8, 2009 Kevin Whited

Over on the increasingly unreadable Houston Press Hair Balls blog, Rich Connelly departs from his usual KTRH-beat duties to criticize…. the Waco Tribune? Yes, the dreck he is criticizing is truly dreck. But given the

Houston's version of "trust but verify?"

October 8, 2009 Kevin Whited

KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey posted a release from HPD Sgt. Kenneth Perkins, who is running for City Council at Large Position #1. We liked the bookends on his list of qualifications: Sunday School Teacher [snip] Met

Which of these does not belong?

October 7, 2009 Kevin Whited

Texas Watchdog has followed up on their interesting story on Gene Locke’s A&K/Sports Authority connections with this more general post on mayoral fundraising (including Locke’s A&K fundraising connections). The post includes a nice roundup of

Chronically out of touch (the "well-off endowment fund manager" edition)

October 7, 2009 Kevin Whited

A few months ago, the Chronicle ran a story about how tough government has it in these rough economic times. It was one of those stories for and of the newspaper’s sources — and of

Area transportation gets the ChronDiary treatment

October 5, 2009 Kevin Whited

We frequently refer to the Chronicle‘s junior metro/state columnist as a diarist, because so many of her columns resemble the personal diary of a teenager. Unfortunately, that style of “journalism” seems to be spreading at

Chron reports on years-long crime-lab backlog; Mayor White is concerned

October 4, 2009 Kevin Whited

Way back in April, we commented on Texas Watchdog’s announcement they were bringing former Chronsters Steve McVicker (and Rosanna Ruiz) on board as follows: We’re looking forward to learning about more METRO deception and funny

On the new host…

October 4, 2009 Kevin Whited

The site is now residing on the new host. If you’re seeing this post, then the DNS updates have been successful and everything should be working as usual. However, there may well be some glitches