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KTRK Crime Tracker: Crime up at METRO's park-and-pillage lots

October 3, 2006 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 breaks out its “exclusive Eyewitness News Crime Tracker” to take a look at the situation at METRO’s Park-and-Pillage lots: METRO reports some 119 crimes occurred since the start of the year. The good news

Laff Stop to relocate

October 2, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Katherine Feser reports that a Houston comedy institution will be relocating at the start of next year: The Laff Stop is bringing down the curtains in its River Oaks Shopping Center location and

Higher ed board scrambles plans for UH Northwest campus

October 1, 2006 Kevin Whited

On Friday, the University of Houston backed away from a proposal to establish a UH Northwest campus after a Texas higher education committee hopelessly scrambled the plans. Matthew Tresaugue reports for the Chronicle: The University

Most major gubernatorial candidates address Houston crime

October 1, 2006 Kevin Whited

As reported by the Chronicle, Gov. Rick Perry is the latest major political candidate to address Houston’s surge in crime: One day after Houston buried a slain police officer, Gov. Rick Perry visited the city

Who is this John Beoner from Illinois?

September 27, 2006 Kevin Whited

Even when they try to be reasonable, the Editorial LiveJournalists sometimes have problems. Here’s an excerpt from today’s editorial on gasoline prices: The politicians must take some blame for inducing Americans’ misapprehension about a link

LULAC, NAACP criticize local talker

September 27, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Houston chapter of LULAC — the League of United Latin American Citizens — is mad at KTRH-740’s Chris Baker. Again. On his highly rated radio program last Friday, Baker had the audacity to read

A break from me

September 27, 2006 Kevin Whited

I’ll be taking a break from the blog and cell phones and internet and city life in general for a few days of backpacking. See ya’ll in a few. Play nice while I’m away!

MayorWhiteChiefHurtt have a new spokesman

September 26, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Gallant Knight is closing

September 26, 2006 Kevin Whited

Via Houstonist comes bad news from the Chronicle‘s Lance Scott Walker: The Gallant Knight will be closing its doors after tonight. The Gallant Knight is a Med Center-area fixture. The dark, funky, blues/jazz live music

Houstonian comes to aid of seven-year-old Iraqi

September 25, 2006 Kevin Whited

From the American Thinker and a reader comes this bit of news on a Houston naval hospital corpsman who, along with some Marines, helped out a seven-year-old Iraqi girl who had suffered a three-story fall: