Articles by Kevin Whited

DEM BLOGGER CHARLES KUFFNER calls out the Texas GOP for possible copyright abuse involving a political video. We had no idea Kuffner had become such a copyright puritan, given his own abuse of copyright laws

SLAMPO notes that the campaign finance filings of newly elected District F carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang “make a mockery of the notion of ‘disclosure’ and hardly conform to the spirit of the law, much less

ACCORDING TO AN AP STORY, outgoing HPD Chief Harold Hurtt gives himself a grade of A- for his tenure in Houston. We liked Marc Campos’s take: “Of course, the Mayor-Elect’s grade is the only one

THE BIG SPORTS NEWS IN RECENT DAYS is that Drayton McLane recently nearly sold the Astros. The Chron‘s Drayton PR (er, baseball) section didn’t break that big story, as John Royal notes: Oh, and EPIC

SLAMPO welcomes new carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang to District F.

CHRON BASEBALL WRITER JESUS ORTIZ had this odd graf in a recent blog post: A lot has happened since my last blog, and I have even been told by a loyal reader that somebody spread

TEXAS WATCHDOG posts about a lovely sounding champagne and lobster party being hosted by the Houston Airport System and a vendor for local media. Sadly, blogHOUSTON did not receive an invitation to the event (we

VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS are reporting that Chief Hurtt has informed his command staff he’ll be resigning effective 30 December. Mayor-elect Parker made clear during the campaign that the bumbling police chief would be out if

TORY GATTIS posts his extensive “wish list” agenda for Mayor Parker, but starts with the basics: She faces a difficult financial situation at the city, and obviously her first priority will be getting that under

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reported last week that the Uptown TIRZ “paid $990,000 to settle a lawsuit over the city’s condemnation of a small piece of land adjacent to a mixed-use project being developed by