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Kevin Whited is co-founder and publisher of blogHOUSTON. Follow him on twitter: @PubliusTX
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On how to read Narnia — or not

December 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

One of the more troubling aspects of so much academic “literary criticism” is the tendency for the critics to bring their own preconceptions, biases, and dislikes to literary texts, to the extent they even bother

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Houston earns "world class" environmental penalty

December 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Banjo Jones reports that Houston has been socked with a huge penalty by Texas environmental regulators: State enviro regulators have ordered H-Town to pay nearly $1 million in penalties for unauthorized discharges from 11 of

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Shutter the D.C. bureau (cont'd)

December 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

One of those inane, meaningless references favored by some professional journalists worked its way into a Gebe Martinez dispatch today: The president’s new strategy also is aimed at trying to unite the base of the

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A busy death-penalty week for the Chron

December 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Look who made an appearance in a death-penalty column in the Chronicle this week: Texas’ method of executing capital murderers could come under scrutiny in a courtroom as the result of what some legal observers

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Additions to our Chron start page

December 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

I’ve added direct links to archives of Chron columnists on our Chron Headlines/Links page. Because the redesigned Chron.com page requires so many more clicks than it should to find content, I designed this page as

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Chronicle corrections (12-03-2005 edition)

December 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Before the redesign, Chron.com had a link for easy access to corrections. The new Chron.com has no such link and no set place for corrections. Maybe the Chron.com web developers will see fit to add

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Bad press forces MayorWhiteChiefHurtt to address manpower shortage

December 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

After a week of being blasted by the city’s television media not to mention talk radio, MayorWhiteChiefHurtt now say they have a plan to deal with HPD’s manpower shortage. No, not simply an ordinance to

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A turkey award for METRO's $2 billion bait-and-switch

December 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

Rich Connelly of the Houston Press has a Turkey Award for METRO: Since time immemorial, at least as it’s measured in Houston, Metro has been pushing for a light-rail system (or a monorail, or a

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METRO doesn't join other transit agencies in honoring Parks

December 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Tom Abrahams reports that METRO didn’t do anything special to honor Rosa Parks today: Fifty years ago a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white

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SEIU wins over janitors, sets sights on city employees

November 30, 2005 Kevin Whited

The city’s local media have engaged in a fair amount of cheerleading over the fact that the Service Employee’s International Union will be moving into Houston in order to better the lives of janitors citywide

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