Articles by Kevin Whited

THE CHRON’S TRANSPORTATION REPORTER informs today that two advocacy groups have released a report that gives Houston poor marks for walkability. There’s no link to the report or the organizations, minimal discussion of the methodology,

ATTORNEY MURRAY NEWMAN, who sat second chair with Kelly Siegler during the 2004 trial, blogs about what to do with Susan Wright.

MIKE MCGUFF blogs that the stars may be aligning for a Sam Malone/Maria Todd reunion on Houston radio.

LOCAL DEM POLITICAL CONSULTANT MUSTAFA TAMEEZ suggests the mayoral candidates devote one day per week to answering social-media questions personally in the leadup to the runoff. I’m all for greater interaction with the public, but

LAZY CHRON COLUMNIST RICK CASEY summarizes a forthcoming academic journal article on the death penalty and crime deterrence. That’s apparently much easier than staying attuned to city news, working sources, making phone calls, requesting public

HERE IS THE LEDE for the Move It column currently on Chron.com: Or “womyn” or “mneatr” or whatever strikes your fancy. Obviously, something has been omitted. Does anybody edit Chron.com (aside from, you know, removing

BREAKING ITS RECENT SILENCE, the Chron.com Houston Politics blog links to a post by a local lefty blogger on Gene Locke’s support of the Houston Dynamo and its new stadium. The Locke campaign has apparently

CHRON COLUMNIST L.M. SIXEL reports that all those SEIU employees that have been much more “organized” in Houston in recent years are “represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 1 in Chicago.” Sixel also

KTRK-13 REPORTER MIYA SHAY blogs about Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman’s efforts to boost deputy Kevin Mauzy’s profile.

BLAWGGER MARK BENNETT, commenting on the recent Houston Press article featuring DWI attorney Tyler Flood, asks “why wouldn’t Tyler want to tell the story of bad arrests and junk science, to the benefit of each