Articles by Kevin Whited

MICHAEL REED follows up his earlier reporting on METRO’s coming light-rail mobility mess on Post Oak. Remember after Reed’s earlier reporting when METRO’s army of PR spinners assured that the organization was working closely with

SLAMPO LAUNCHES his Bob Stein Watch (so the rest of us are saved the trouble of tracking when the pro journalists at the Chron and elsewhere get lazy and tap an easy quote from Houston’s

THE END OF THE YEAR does bring news that transportation reporter Carolyn Feibel will be departing the Chronicle. We had thought her last column might offer readers yet more information about personalized license plates (covered

WE’RE MOSTLY CONTINUING our holiday slowdown, but here’s a question some readers might be able to help with: Is there something in the official MSM Journalism Handbook that requires endless, tiresome, repetitive end-of-decade/looking-ahead summaries* the

TOM BAZAN passes along the latest dismal METRO ridership and fare collection statistics, which we have posted for public review. Tory Gattis posts separately that “an immediate deep-dive audit and analysis of Metro’s cloudy future

IN AN ALL TOO RARE POST, The County Seat mocks the Chron Editorial Board’s Christmas wish list. Our newsy wish list for the nation’s fourth largest city would include a newspaper metro desk befitting the

News coverage of interest from a public finance industry publication: And as the board sorts out its financing plans for the three new stadiums, the authority is not even considering building a professional soccer stadium

THE CHRONICLE follows up on this week-old Texas Watchdog story about the Harris County GOP’s apparent campaign-finance reporting problems with… their own story. We’re surprised columnist Rick Casey never ran with this one, but perhaps

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reports on Mayor Bill White’s big announcement about a new $11 million pet adoption facility. Even though Snyder covered the recent mayoral race, in which then-Senate Candidate White warned the mayoral

TOM KIRKENDALL posts that Tilman Fertitta’s “wild Landry’s ride continues.”