Kevin Whited, Author at blogHOUSTON

METRO announces new downtown jaywalking revenue stream

June 3, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that as of June 13, extra METRO police manpower will be deployed downtown to ticket jaywalkers: Downtown jaywalkers should be on the lookout in the month of June, because Metro police

Another Chron op-ed proves erroneous

June 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

On October 17, 2004, the Chronicle ran an op-ed by Glen Harold Stassen and Gary Krane entitled “Why abortion rate is up in Bush years.” The message was that the Bush Administration’s economic policies had

Richard Justice gets blog-serious

June 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

Earlier today, Newsday speculated that Roger Clemens might land in that other city in Texas that has a Major League baseball team. The Dallas Morning News posted a story about it on their site (since

City controller announces audit of SAFEclear

June 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

City Controller Annise Parker has announced an audit of the SAFEclear program: “I had planned on waiting to begin our audit until Safe Clear had been in existence for a little longer, but there are

Bernhardt regains home, cash settlement

June 2, 2005 Kevin Whited

According to a KHOU-11 report, Pam Bernhardt, the woman who lost her home in a suspicious “foreclosure” involving a homeowner’s association, has gotten her property back: About a month ago, Pam Bernhardt said she learned

Chron corrects Memorial Day weekend op-ed

June 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle has posted a lengthy correction to that erroneous op-ed that ran on Sunday. I’m reproducing it in its entirety below, so that it won’t scroll away behind some firewall at some point.

Crime lab investigator moves to next phase

June 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

KUHF-88.7’s Jack Williams reports that yesterday’s revelation that the HPD crime lab faked some test results may only be a precursor of more bad news to come later this summer: The man in charge of

Beware the bold, bald office burglar

June 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan warns of a bold, bald burglar who has been hitting downtown and Greenway high-rise offices: One man has been busy stealing from employees in downtown Houston and Greenway Plaza. Authorities say he

Undocumented immigrants?

June 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13 reports on an apparent human smuggling/dumping in West University: Residents in West University witnessed a chaotic and unsettling scene as close to 100 undocumented immigrants were released in their neighborhood. It happened just after

Wanted (still): Streamed editorial board meetings

June 1, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle runs two staff editorials today that refer to secret conversations with the editorial board. There’s an overreaching rant about those evil Republicans in Austin that contains this tidbit: When he visited the Houston