Articles by Kevin Whited

When public officials assure us that no public money will be expended on various boondoggles, we generally are skeptical. Sometimes, the language simply changes over time and the pol hopes nobody really notices (or tries

METRO isn’t the only local public institution that is being less than helpful with regard to public information requests. As KTRK-13’s Ted Oberg reports, his television station has gone back to court to try to

We went downtown earlier to vote early at the Harris County Administration Building (which is little used, unlike the West Gray early voting facility) on Preston. We parked on the street, and unsurprisingly, the first

Last night, KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino continued his look at some of the relationships between Harris County government and private industry. Here’s a teaser: Friends helping friends get huge government contracts. Is that the way you

KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino has been poking around in county government again, and last night he ran the first of a series of reports on apparent Harris County government cronyism and sweetheart deals. Here’s a teaser:

Last Friday (the day that damning news often goes to die), the Chronicle ran an important story by Roma Khanna on the latest problems with the HPD Crime Lab. Here are some choice excerpts (although

Anyone who has driven through the Elgin/Louisiana area of Midtown recently has probably noticed some serious construction (and occasional lane closures). The Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports on the big development: One of Midtown’s largest landholders