Articles by Kevin Whited

BORRIS MILES, the erratic character who once successfully beat State Rep. Al Edwards, behaved like a buffoon in office, lost his re-election campaign against Edwards, and is now challenging Edwards again for the seat, took

BUCKHEAD INVESTMENT PARTNERS, the group hoping to develop a mixed-use high-rise property at 1717 Bissonnet (the so-called Ashby high-rise) sued the City of Houston today (KRIV-26, Chronicle). The Chronicle story ends in a curious manner:

THE CHRON’S CHRIS MORAN reports that Harris County Commissioners Court has decided to pay a $50,000 bribe in hopes of improving Harris County’s chances in the great high-speed-rail-the-federal-government-can’t-afford boondoggle. Well, he framed it a little

KTRK-13’S DEBORAH WRIGLEY reports that the Lakewood/Osteen self-help congregation has started a drive-through faith-healing service. Can the Lakewood Remote Faith-Healing editions for the Wii and iPhone be far behind?

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Rogalski follows up on previous reporting on the area’s problems with abandoned buildings with a nice analysis of City of Houston response times to citizen complaints about the same. The results are not

KTRK-13’S TED OBERG reports that the City of Houston is taking action to tear down a derelict building, “two weeks after Eyewitness News” reported on it as part of a story on the demolition backlog.

SLAMPO recounts his conversation with the Chronicle‘s erratic features editor, Kyrie O’Connor, over the newspaper’s new “The Good Life” gambit, which he posted about previously. That man deserves some sort of Blogurbatin’-hazardous-duty pay (or at

THE DANGER TRAIN AND A METRO BUS collided downtown earlier today, right near METRO headquarters (Chronicle, KPRC-2, KHOU-11, KTRK-13, KRIV-26). Remind us again why so many smart Houtopians think building rail at grade down busy

BLOGHOUSTON FAVS JAY WALL AND STAN BURTON offer Mayor Parker a number of public-safety recommendations in this op-ed in today’s Chronicle.