Articles by Kevin Whited

THE WHITE HOUSE apparently didn’t like the fact that President Obama’s phone call congratulating Mayor-elect Parker went public. Craig Malisow has the details.

BLOGHOUSTON FRIEND AND WEST U POL GEORGE BOEHME lands a small blow for open government, concluding as follows: “If you want to make your decisions in private, don’t run for public office.” Agreed!

CONGRATULATIONS TO KHOU-11’S MARK GREENBLATT, whose reporting on the Texas National Guard has won a duPont award.

THIS ASSESSMENT appears towards the end of a Chron story on Mayor Parker’s transition team: Councilwoman Jolanda Jones praised Parker for putting community leaders and “regular” citizens on the committees, noting it was a continuation

THREE YEARS AGO, the Chron was doing its part to cheer on the Houston Texans’ backing of the irrelevant Texas Bowl, and their dream of becoming “one of those big-time bowls everybody’s talking about….” Tom

SLAMPO has a great name-change suggestion that could really boost the gubernatorial campaign of Farouk Shami (so go read to the end).

PSA: LOU MINATTI points out that Chapstick and Carmex are banned substances at Cy-Fair ISD.

LEDE FROM A NEWS STORY that appeared on Chron.com yesterday morning: Texas has the worst performing food stamp program in the nation, says the federal director who oversees the project designed to help desperate people

JOHN ROYAL points out on the Houston Press blog that the Chron was beaten once again on a bit of baseball news, but his news of interest is that Jesus Ortiz has been moved from

TEXAS WATCHDOG follows up on its earlier reporting on some campaign donations the Harris County GOP had apparently misplaced/misreported. The Harris County GOP informs that their campaign finance documents have been amended and “Everything’s cool.”