Kevin Whited, Author at blogHOUSTON

Alvarado headlining "financial literacy" seminar

March 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

David Benzion at Lone Star Times notes that former Mayor Pro Tem and current Councilmember Carol Alvarado will be holding a “Town Hall Meeting On Financial Literacy” this weekend with State Sen. Rodney Ellis. As

Chronicle reporters analyze city's performance-pay spending

March 24, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles and Alexis Grant have been poring over records of bonuses to Houston municipal employees, and write about their findings in a story today. Their entire story is worth reading, but I’m

METRO bus hits downtown pedestrian

March 23, 2006 Kevin Whited

The KHOU-11 news blog reports that a METRO bus has struck a pedestrian (again): A mother and daughter were crossing the street when the 67-year-old mom was struck by a Metro bus at the intersection

Chron reader rep cracks on TMi page (again)

March 23, 2006 Kevin Whited

For the second time, the Houston Chronicle reader representative has publicly called out the newspaper’s inane TMi page (in the STAR section) for questionable editorial judgment. Here is what James Campbell wrote today, in the

Alvarado now the subject of criminal inquiry

March 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

After several weeks of (misleading) assurances from Mayor White and Carol Alvarado’s PR people that Alvarado was not the subject of the investigation by OIG, it turns out that Alvarado is being investigated by the

AP eye for the death row baby killer guy

March 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle chose not to dispatch a member of its staff to cover the execution of a baby killer in the form of a Chron Eye, instead running AP copy today: [Robert] Salazar, 27, was

DeLay, Hutchison secure $20 million for Houston cops

March 22, 2006 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, Mayor Bill White, Police Chief Harold Hurtt, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison held a press conference downtown to discuss $20 million in funding secured by DeLay and Hutchison to boost

Meals on Wheels program struggles to meet demand

March 21, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle ran a troubling story last week on the difficulties that Houston’s Meals On Wheels is facing: Now, almost 4,000 elderly, homebound Houston-area residents receive free meals through Meals on Wheels programs sponsored by

Motorists complain about Spur 527 ramp; TXDOT spins

March 20, 2006 Kevin Whited

One component of the Spur 527 reconstruction has now opened, and motorists are already complaining to the Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee about the poor design: The news is better on Spur 527, which links the southwest

The ongoing quest for a "world-class" downtown destination

March 19, 2006 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Alexis Grant plays up the City of Houston’s latest effort to create a “world-class” downtown destination: With a new wireless network, contemporary furniture and a cafe, the renovated downtown library could become a