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Kevin Whited is co-founder and publisher of blogHOUSTON. Follow him on twitter: @PubliusTX
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Maybe Tilman Fertitta could build a Park & Ride ferris wheel?

November 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

METRO, once a regional mobility organization, is moving full speed ahead with its new real-estate development mission: In its second venture into “transit-oriented development,” the Metropolitan Transit Authority is planning a four-story Park & Ride

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It's more like year one than year four

November 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

Richard Justice is about as critical of Texans GM Charley Casserly today as any Chronicle sportswriter to date: They played about as well as they can play. Afterward, they had to know it. Even as

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Mayor White wants world-class internet bubble

November 7, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports on a last-minute campaign pledge by Mayor White: Mayor Bill White stated Monday that if he wins re-election, one of the first things he’ll do is push forward a plan to

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Our technocratic-progressive mayor is all about efficiency

November 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Anne Linehan ran across this AP story by Wendy Benjaminson on Mayor White. Here’s a telling excerpt: While White gets high marks for efficiency, city officials and advocates for the poor have begun to question

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Chron editorialists rage at state lege, Bettencourt

November 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

It’s hard to get anything past the astute political observers at the Chronicle: RECENTLY Houston City Council voted to set this year’s property tax rate at 64.75 cents per $100, a quarter cent below last

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A Pappas profile to make a PR firm happy

November 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Most Houstonians are fairly well acquainted with the Pappas family and their popular chains of restaurants. However, for those who are not, David Kaplan’s glowing Chronicle profile of the Pappas brothers and their efforts to

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Editorial idealists are Chevy Chase; We're not

November 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Saturday, the Chronicle‘s editorial idealists got themselves all worked up over the issues important to Houstonians Kansans: So far Kansas is the most extreme example, but the state leads a national trend to “teach the

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Looking back at a week of Astros proxy wars

November 6, 2005 Kevin Whited

Tom Kirkendall and I have been posting (and emailing) a bit over the proxy wars being carried on by Chron sportswriters who seem loyal to various members and former members of the Houston Astros’ organization.

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Chron editorialists advise on good corporate citizens

November 5, 2005 Kevin Whited

In typically condescending fashion, the Chronicle editorial board yesterday lectured Wal-Mart on corporate responsibility: These blunders, and the disgust they prompt in Wal-Mart’s organized critics, should strengthen the company’s resolve to be a better corporate

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Is anybody at the Chron sports department on speaking terms?

November 4, 2005 Kevin Whited

Earlier in the week, Tom Kirkendall called attention to a story by the Chronicle‘s Jose de Jesus Ortiz that appeared clearly to be a hit piece on former Astros general manager Gerry Hunsicker on behalf

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