Kevin Whited, Author at blogHOUSTON

Patrick continues transition from insurgent to pol

November 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack writes that KSEV-700 talker and Texas Senate District 7 candidate Dan Patrick has been sounding a little like those flip-flopping politicians he frequently criticizes on the radio: Patrick has made an

MediaSource likely to win contract renewal

November 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that Mayor White is persisting in his effort to allow MediaSource to continue as controversial custodian of the public access channel: Mayor Bill White, whose first loss on a council

Transportation tidbits

November 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

There were a couple of interesting snippets in Rad Sallee’s transportation column today. First was METRO’s explanation of why public hearings were cancelled recently: Last week, the Metropolitan Transit Authority abruptly canceled two public meetings

How to fuel cynicism about politics

November 14, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Samantha Levine reports on a seeming flip-flop by Rep. John Culberson (R): Lone Star State lawmakers often say they’re Texans first and Democrats or Republicans second. They have worked together on many issues

Missing Places

November 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Missing Places is an oddly compelling exercise in citizen journalism (or should that be citizen archaeology?) that tracks vanishing history, vacant lots, and “forgotten” places in Houston. The site describes the project as follows: The

Did an alleged Austin sanctuary policy cost a life?

November 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Austin American-Statesman reported several days ago that a family is upset with what it claims is an unofficial police department policy in Austin: Humberto Garcia thinks that his 18-year-old daughter, who was brutally murdered

Blogger takes on the Chron's unofficial humor columnists

November 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

For those intrepid local journalists who might wonder what our “agenda” at blogHOUSTON is, the easy answer is that we’re holding out for some think tank (or even the Ken Charles local media empire) to

The perils of group editorializing

November 13, 2005 Kevin Whited

Matt Bramanti took apart a Friday Chronicle editorial over at the Lone Star Times, asking “does anybody read this stuff before press time?” By paragraph, the editorial went something like this: Senate committee hearings on

Local media neglect key local aspect of Katrina story

November 12, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s Jay Root reports some news with disturbing implications for the city of Houston: Lurking among the hundreds of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who fled to Texas are dozens, maybe even

No Pulitzer for murderer who impersonated Katrina victim

November 10, 2005 Kevin Whited

Two Chronicle reporters note that escaped murderer Charles Victor Thompson impersonated a Katrina victim while on the run: Former escapee and condemned murderer Charles Victor Thompson posed as a Hurricane Katrina victim to get donations