Articles by Kevin Whited

The push to continue to waste taxpayer money on the decrepit Astrodome was joined last week by none other than Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, who came out in favor of a “minimalist” plan to

Nearly two years ago, we drew on a number of obscure, little-read documents on METRO’s downtown light-rail plans to post some thoughts on downtown’s coming traffic/train/pedestrian mobility nightmare (needless to say, we did not buy

The Daily Caller posted a detailed report today about Queen Sheila Jackson Lee’s horrible treatment of staffers. It’s a pretty interesting read (profanities and all). How one treats subordinates and service workers is often a

KTRK-13’s Undercover Man Wayne Dolcefino takes a look at HPD’s BAT vans:

The Examiner News posts this followup on the news it initially broke that NEW METRO has reached a settlement with Pauline Higgins: As expected, Metro and Pauline Higgins settled their legal differences today with the

As we’ve come to expect, Michael Reed has broken another story for the Examiner News on METRO’s absolute financial disarray courtesy of the White/Wolff/Wilson years. Here are some key excerpts: When Metro board members take

On the one hand, it’s good that METRO is posting more — and more detailed — financial info online. Transparent financial behavior should be the norm at taxpayer-supported organizations. On the other hand, some of

On Friday, various news outlets reported on the release of the 2010 Census info, which documents the area’s significant population growth. There’s so much information to wade through that we’d like to hear reader thoughts

For several weeks now, we’ve noticed that Unca Darrell‘s semi-regular critiques of the output of the Houston Chronicle‘s editorialists have been… missing. This week, Unca Darrell revealed that he’s retired from that sort of blogging,

Time to clear out the blog cache and post some lunchtime links: Mayor to Mayor: Parker Indicates Brown’s East Downtown Green Card Hotel Project Would Qualify for Tax Breaks (Swamplot) A boondoggle THIS convoluted would