Articles by Kevin Whited

Slampo comes out swinging (again) on the city’s exciting new garbage-tax proposal. His earlier post on Mayor White’s proposed new garbage tax is here.

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that the Mayor’s new trash-tax-revenue-stream officially has the cute name required of all such stealth tax initiatives: Nearly 500,000 Houston households getting city trash service would have to pay a

The Chronicle‘s Melanie Markley reports that the city is proceeding with plans to tear up its lease with a local non-profit group that houses the mentally retarded, so that it can deliver their prime River

The Chronicle‘s L.M. Sixel had an interesting story last week that took a closer look at the treatment of law-breaking protestors who were shipped in by SEIU last year: Last month, a Harris County criminal

The Chronicle‘s Seshdri Kumar reports that Mayor White and his Council will soon be imposing yet another fee on Houston residents: The city of Houston is likely to propose a $3 or $4 a month

The Chronicle‘s Bill Murphy wrote about new Harris County Judge Ed Emmett’s “honeymoon period” a few days ago: Like anybody who has ever attended Commissioners Court, new County Judge Ed Emmett is finding out that

Tom Kirkendall calls attention to an update from the Houston Business Journal on the grand plans to redevelop the Astrodome: The developer endorsed by Harris County to transform the Astrodome into a 1,000-room destination hotel