Articles by Kevin Whited

The administration of Mayor White, who has made a mockery of due process in the Ashby high-rise matter (while still delivering for the well-heeled on their issue and blocking permits previously issued), has apparently decided

Harris County’s most popular Republican officeholder, Paul Bettencourt, comes under a bit of fire today in the Chronicle, apparently for doing an aspect of his job effectively: Bettencourt voluntarily pursues voters to update their registrations

It’s time to catch up on some Houston news after running around the world-class cities of San Francisco (whose 9 mph cable cars rival the speed of the Danger Train, but whose BART trains run

Over at Hair Balls, Richard Connelly notes that Harris County has finally put candidate campaign-finance reports online. Unfortunately, the format is PDF, and not an online searchable database, but it’s a start, we suppose.

Harvard economist Edward Glaeser has a fascinating op-ed in the New York Sun today (apparently a shortened version of a forthcoming City Journal article) that compares earnings and cost of living in New York and