Articles by Kevin Whited

Most often, the blog points out examples of local journalistic and/or governmental stupidity. Today, we interrupt the blog “slowdown” to share three examples of general stupidity. Be sure to click over for the full stories/posts.

We’re putting the blog in official slowdown mode for a little while. There’s nothing “bad” going on. But we’ve been doing the blog pretty much continuously for quite a few years now, and Anne Linehan

Tom Bazan passes along this interesting chart he put together detailing the projections made by one of the city’s favorite consultants to justify its deep involvement in the convention center hotel versus actual revenue performance

The last week or so sort of got away from us, so here’s a quick link post to catch up: Housing authority paid thousands to employees' friends, relatives, records show – Mike Morris and Susan

The county attorney looked into all of it and decided in the letter that nothing was illegal, but said it probably wasn’t the best way to handle this. [snip] By the way, there is no