Articles by Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Miya Shay posts some interesting news and documents on her blog: You may remember that a few years ago, the Downtown Aquarium leased portions of an old Houston Fire Dept. land to build the

Yesterday, Chron.com posted an AP story about a recent urban walkability study, and supplied the following headline: Survey: Houston among top walkable cities in U.S. That really wasn’t consistent with the story, but Chron headline

KHOU-11 reports that Mayor White and his Council have signed off one of the silliest proposals to reach Council during his administration — the plan to distribute 15,000 “fat trapper” bags to select residents. Here

The Chronicle‘s Bill Hensel Jr. reports that Continental Airlines and Bush Intercontinental Airport are beginning to test paperless boarding passes today: Some Continental Airlines’ passengers leaving Houston will be the first in the nation to

The downtown library, which seemingly has been under renovation forever, is shut down today. The shutdown wasn’t planned. Rather, as the Chronicle‘s David Ellison reports, the library was forced to shut down today because of

Houston’s copper bandits have been in the news again lately. This bit of advice to citizens from an HPD captain (via KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan) following the latest brazen copper heist caught our eye today: “Usually

Yesterday, Mrs. White surprised us with criticism of HPD’s murder reporting (as first reported by KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt). As Greenblatt now reports, Mayor White has taken the lead after Chief Hurtt’s poor handling of the