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Kevin Whited is co-founder and publisher of blogHOUSTON. Follow him on twitter: @PubliusTX
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Mobility planning is great (unless METRO is involved)

June 2, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee checks in on the area’s mobility planning process: Transportation planning is both hugely important and often mind-numbing. Houston, for example, has a Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan (MTFP), an Urban Corridors

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DMN reporters push for muni hotel, cite Houston

June 2, 2008 Kevin Whited

A reader passes along a two-reporter story from the Dallas Morning News on our northern neighbor’s efforts to justify municipal government getting into the hotel business. The headline pretty much suggests this isn’t exactly going

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Chron profiles one Houstonian's travel hobby

June 1, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Dai Huynh profiles a Houston man who makes a habit of being on inaugural Continental Airlines flights: Circling the Earth by plane would add 25,000 miles to your frequent flier account. Imagine doing

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Mayor White gets Houston moving

May 30, 2008 Kevin Whited

Readers in the Galleria area might want to plan to avoid the intersection of Richmond/Chimney Rock in the immediate future. I just got hung up in a big mess of a bottleneck that turned a

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KHOU checks in on HPD murder misreporting scandal

May 29, 2008 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt checked in tonight with an update on HPD’s underreporting of murders in recent years. Interestingly, the department has quietly reclassified some 16 incidents as murders since Greenblatt started reporting on the issue.

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More adventures in Ready-Fire-Aim governance

May 29, 2008 Kevin Whited

Local media have recently reported on affluent residents of the Rivercrest subdivision who have conveniently (and rapidly!) secured public works improvements to cut down on the riff-raff blowing down their streets. Mayor White, predictably, denies

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Are we finally World Class?!

May 29, 2008 Kevin Whited

The fine folks at Kiplinger’s pass along word that they’ve just posted their 2008 list of Best Cities to Live, Work, and Play, and look who’s #1: No. 1: Houston No. 2: Raleigh No. 3:

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KTRK continues investigation of Sheriff's Office email/spy-gate

May 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

While I was away playing last week, KTRK-13 continued its investigation into emails that the Sheriff’s Department has worked hard to keep away from KTRK. Here’s an excerpt from Wayne Dolcefino’s report on May 20:

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Hoffman on CW39 news, Chron scoops

May 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman has good news for local news junkies: Eight years ago, the half-hour Channel 39 News at 9 p.m. with anchors Sherry Williams and Alan Hemberger signed on. And almost from the

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Different sorts of Chron eyes

May 28, 2008 Kevin Whited

With the Supreme Court ruling on lethal injection, we expected a steady stream of the Chron Eye for the Death Row Killer Guy as the state once again resumed executions. A couple of recent stories,

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