Kevin Whited, Author at blogHOUSTON

Cabo, Schlotzky's plan to expand in Houston

December 16, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Houston Business Journal‘s Allison Wollam reports that Cabo and Schlotzky’s are both planning to expand in Houston after several years of contraction forced by bankruptcy: A pair of restaurant chains have rebounded from bankruptcy

HPD trying to boost traffic-citation revenue stream?

December 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

Richard Connelly speculates that HPD may be under the gun to boost the traffic-citation revenue stream: You may have noticed it around town lately — a half-dozen or so cop cars at some intersection, pulling

Council approves MediaSource contract

December 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that City Council has finally approved a contract with Houston MediaSource, the (recently) controversial custodian of the public access channel: It took more than five months, but City Council today

They've lost another prisoner

December 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11 breaks this news: Minutes after his conviction, a Harris County prisoner ran out of the courtroom and disappeared into the streets below. Nicholaus Scardino, 25, had just been convicted of evading arrest and unauthorized

KPRC resists subpoena for videotape footage

December 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

KPRC-2 is resisting an attempt by the Harris County District Attorney’s office to subpoena videotape footage that never aired: A prosecutor’s demand for a TV station’s videotape from a story that never aired violates the

Deluge, droughts, rising oceans — oh my!

December 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Sometimes, it’s just fun when the Editorial LiveJournalists crank up the rhetoric: The longer the United States waits to join the rest of the world and act decisively to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the more

What next for the New Chron.com?

December 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Over at the Brazosport News a few days ago, Banjo Jones stirred the pot a bit with these observations about the New Chron.com editorial page, and its linking of local blogs: [T]here’s a certain level

Kotkin contrasts Houston and New Orleans

December 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Joel Kotkin has penned a provocative column for The American Enterprise in which he examines the underclass in New Orleans (positing a connection to urban liberalism run amok) and contrasts it with the immigrant class

Does low turnout mean Bob Stein's wife is doing a great job?

December 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

We almost forgot to mention this insight on low turnout for Houston’s city council elections, courtesy of KHOU-11 political analyst Bob Stein: [S]ince much of politics is about spin, there’s even a positive spin on

Editorial LiveJournalists rewrite First Amendment

December 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Editorial LiveJournalists certainly have an entertaining view of what is required by the First Amendment. In a Sunday editorial on a new academic textbook on the Bible, the Editorial LiveJournalists wrote: Admirably, the