Articles by Kevin Whited

METRO says it will continue its Airport Express bus service despite a KTRK-13/Ted Oberg story this week criticizing the per-passenger cost of the service (caused by low ridership so far). Count me among those who

THIS WEEK’S HOUSTON PRESS features a really solid local story by an actual professional journalist*: John Nova Lomax takes a look the sharp change in the prosecution of vehicular crimes under Harris Country District Attorney

YESTERDAY, UNCA DARRELL skewered the Chronicle editorial board, as he is wont to do on his intelligent blog. Today, he announced that he’s shutting things down. Unless he’s becoming the Chron‘s conservative staff columnist (right!),

MIKE MCGUFF thinks CW39 should be pretty happy with the Chron‘s glowing profile of Mia Gradney, even if the timing is a little puzzling.

THE CHRON’S JUNIOR METRO/STATE COLUMNIST returns to the print version of the newspaper today with an essay not about metro/state matters… but about herself. Congratulations go out to the new mother, of course. But we

IT’S BEEN A WHILE, so we thought we’d have one of our blogger/beer/BS gatherings. We’ll be hitting the Stag’s Head Pub on Saturday from 2pm – ???? Come on by, have an adult beverage, and

THE MOVE TO INCREASE WATER RATES* that blogger Ubu Roi has been warning about for some time has finally spilled onto the pages of the Chronicle. Here is the ominous warning from our mayor: “Council

SLAMPO POSTS about the Chron‘s latest effort to generate some interest (while apparently littering driveways of non-subscribers). We’re a little more bullish on the enterprise — maybe with the addition of some reader party pics

ANDY ICKEN, quaintly described as former Mayor Bill White’s City Hall “troubleshooter” by the Chron.com Houston Politics blog, will be moving from Public Works to Mayor Parker’s office. Since so much of his *ahem* troubleshooting

ON WEDNESDAY, COUNCIL voted to expand the city’s curbside recycling program. We liked the conclusion to KHOU-11’s story: The program is being paid for with federal stimulus money. That’s so… stimulating!