Articles by Kevin Whited

REAL LIFE is intruding on the blogging, so it’s probably going to be a little quiet here over the next few days. In the meantime, feel free to treat this as an open-comment thread.

HOUSTON is one of five cities “poised to prosper in the New Economy,” according to the Christian Science Monitor.

NEAL MEYER takes on the question of whether Harris County should have a public defender’s office.

SLAMPO posts an update on various runoff races, and it’s worth reading (as usual).

THE AIR TRAVEL WEBSITE FLYERTALK is hosting an interesting discussion on the tenure of Larry Kellner as CEO of Houston-based Continental Airlines (and also his predecessor Gordon Bethune). Kellner is in his final weeks as

THE CHRON’S MIKE TOLSON reports that Houston’s mayoral candidates had another “me too!” policy session before The Metropolitan Organization last night.

AN AUDIT at (what we hope is) the end of HPD Chief Harold Hurtt’s tenure has turned up massive problems in HPD’s fingerprint unit that could cost millions to correct and will force a review

Bradley Olson blogs that the Houston Police Officers Union isn’t happy with Annise Parker’s claim to have been endorsed by police officers seven times in a row. Their rep Gary Blankinship argues that the claim

TEXAS TRIBUNE is running an email exchange this week between local bloggers David Benzion and Charles Kuffner. The topic: How good a mayor was Bill White? Readers here probably have some thoughts on that topic,

SLAMPO blogs about the mayor’s race and “being sensible.”