Articles by Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Julie Mason provides this bit of amusement in her White House Watch column: It’s an American political rhetorical flourish that dates back at least to Thomas Jefferson, and it’s one President Bush and

The Editorial LiveJournalists have discovered that violent crime is threatening Houston: In 1958, Houston had the nation’s highest murder rate, with 15 homicides per 100,000 residents. In 1981, after Houston tallied more than 700 homicides,

In his story on Mayor White’s state of the city address, Chronicle reporter Matt Stiles led as follows: Houston Mayor Bill White evoked the local spirit during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his State

Clay Robison, the Chronicle‘s lefty weekend editorialist, is trying out a weeks–old argument in favor of increased spending on social welfare: He is the same Bill Ratliff, the unassuming engineer from Mount Pleasant who, in