Kevin Whited, Author at blogHOUSTON

Chron: Downtown boutique hotel business booming

January 6, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s David Kaplan reports that the downtown boutique hotel business seems to be booming: When the Hotel Icon opened in 2004, it drew the beautiful people. Guests have included Paris Hilton, Sting and Michael

Mayor to O'Reilly: Don't use the S word!

January 6, 2008 Kevin Whited

Just before Christmas, in response to some immigration bluster from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, the Chronicle ran a story asking once again if Houston is a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. We’ve grown a bit

METRO rolls out 2008 service "improvements," fare increases

January 6, 2008 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Wendell Edwards reports that a Houston non-profit isn’t too pleased with planned fare changes: At the Star of Hope, caseworkers hand out small tokens to help some clients get to appointments and job interviews.

Remembering back when…

January 6, 2008 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Mike McGuff closed out 2007 with an interesting look back at various Houston landmarks that have shut down. The report (with video) is posted here.

Dolcefino: FBI launches City Hall investigation

January 5, 2008 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino reported last night that the FBI has subpoenaed City Hall in a new investigation: We’ve learned the FBI has delivered subpoenas to Houston City Hall looking for records of dealings with two

Cohen: "The name of this newspaper is the Houston Chronicle…."

January 2, 2008 Kevin Whited

In the January 2008 Texas Monthly, Paul Burka writes about reductions in the size of the Austin press corps. His story includes snippets of a conversation with Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen: I called Jeff Cohen,

Less-than-world-class New Year's greetings

December 31, 2007 Kevin Whited

We’d like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Sadly, our quirky little burg didn’t manage to resurrect the world-class New Year’s Eve Star event. Recall that Carol Alvarado was too

Thoughts on the Rosenthal email flap

December 30, 2007 Kevin Whited

The big local political news over the last few days (over the course of a holiday break, travel, bowl games, a server crash, end-of-year work crunch, and other assorted fun) has involved emails send by

Technical difficulties

December 27, 2007 Kevin Whited

Apparently, the web host had a hard drive crash earlier, which knocked us off the web for a bit. Unfortunately, they had to restore from a backup that wasn’t exactly current, so some posts and

Two more area institutions closing down

December 27, 2007 Kevin Whited

Two Houston-area landmarks will be shutting down for good at the end of the year. Jennifer Leahy and Lisa Gray report for the Chronicle that the Greenway Theater will be closing: The Greenway Theatre, which