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Kevin Whited is co-founder and publisher of blogHOUSTON. Follow him on twitter: @PubliusTX
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Bennett takes Chron to task over coverage of… Bennett

October 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

Here’s an entertaining letter from one “Bob” Bennett that appeared in the Chronicle over the weekend: On Friday, Sept. 28, after months of hearings and negotiations, Daniel Yeh pleaded guilty to one count of a

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Brazen smash-and-grab robbers hit Southwest Freeway store

October 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports that Houston’s thieves are growing ever more brazen: Thieves used a truck to break into a southwest Houston electronics store. Someone drove the vehicle through the front window of the Thunder Sound car

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Would we prefer they remain uninsured?

October 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Rosa Flores reports on insurance companies that insure drivers without a valid license: A sign on Long Point Road may pack a little bit of a surprise for some drivers. It reads “Get auto

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Chron covers local political race (!?)

October 9, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Robert Crowe examines the District C Council race. Here’s an excerpt: In the race for City Council District C, the two challengers to incumbent Anne Clutterbuck say the city must do more to

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Three months in, breeder law largely unenforced

October 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Associated Press reports that compliance with City of Houston legislation aimed at breeders is nonexistent: Three months after the city of Houston passed an ordinance requiring a permit to sell cats or dogs that

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Thieves steal tires, rims from Hobby Airport parking garage

October 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

Given my recent travels, this KPRC-2 story from September caught my eye: Several air travelers have come home from their trips to find they cannot drive their cars, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday. Houston police

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Density is great (except when it's in the neighborhoods of the powerful)

October 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

The opening of a 4 October Chronicle story by Mike Snyder and Nancy Sarnoff on the fight over a proposed high-rise in an affluent neighborhood provides some entertainment: Two days after Mayor Bill White pledged

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Council candidates follow the lead of Harold "Arizona" Hurtt

October 7, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle runs an op-ed by Roy Reynolds that takes aim at two candidates for City Council for being residents of Houston in name only. Here is an excerpt: It didn’t take long past the

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Chief Hurtt responds to Badge & Gun article, editorial on CompStat

October 5, 2007 Kevin Whited

As we noted earlier this summer, HPOU’s publication Badge & Gun ran an article by Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William A Wolff, who have been pushing for the adoption of CompStat, the statistical tool

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Hotel ZaZa shines light on broken Mecom Fountain

October 4, 2007 Kevin Whited

We noted at the start of summer that a dark Mecom Fountain — and the fact that the city could manage neither to prevent the vandalism that darkened it or to effect repairs of the

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