Articles by Kevin Whited

THE CHRON reports what many of us learned via social networking sites yesterday: Embattled Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole will be running for re-election. The Chron version does offer comment from the usual go-to sources

CONTROLLER CANDIDATE PAM HOLM has purchased a 30-minute block on KCOH-1430 to allow opponent Ron Green “to explain his more than $120,000 federal income tax debt to you and to Houston voters.” We don’t expect

FOR SOME REASON, THE NEW YORK TIMES decided Houston’s mayoral race merited a story. To summarize: There’s not much difference among the three major candidates, one of them is a lesbian but it’s not that

AT LEAST ONE COLLEAGUE of Chron baseball reporter/McLane PR man Jesus Ortiz apparently isn’t impressed with his work either. Astros County posts the details.

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER reports that over a thousand HISD employees have been issued district credit cards, despite the fact that some of those cardholders have serious credit issues. Perhaps it’s time for HISD’s new

KTRK-13 UNDERCOVER MAN WAYNE DOLCEFINO offers Part Three of his investigation into allegedly wasteful spending by Spring ISD administrators. This time, he looks at more travel boondoggles and an expensive consultant named Spence Rogers (no

ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS FIRE occurred this morning in the Heights (KTRK-13, Chronicle). Maybe the crack HPD leadership should deploy its new Plainclothes/Vagrant Battalion to hold up “Please don’t burn buildings” signs in the neighborhood?

WHICH OF HOUSTON’S MAYORAL CANDIDATES promises magic? Slampo has the answer.

THE AUSTIN-BASED LIBERAL BLOG BURNT ORANGE REPORT (which recently endorsed Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker, lately the hot pick of liberal bloggers) has posted a scorching critique of the Harris County Tax Office, contending the

CORY CROW mocks this ongoing waste of tax dollars. Chron.com’s whimsical opinion-section linkblog also linked it, sans mockery.