Articles by Kevin Whited

HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT PR MAN (AND FORMER CHRONSTER) ALAN BERNSTEIN and Grits for Breakfast blogger Scott Henson have an interesting back-and-forth on the proposed Harris County jail booking facility expansion.

SELF-DESCRIBED “POLITICAL INSIDER” NANCY SIMS admits confusion on a local campaign topic: Texas Watchdog is calling out Locke for not releasing his income tax returns. Parker has released hers. Locke might as well. This issue

Houston Mayor Bill White: “I’m running for the U.S. Senate…. Yeah, I’m running for the U.S. Senate” (KVUE News, 20 November 2009). Houston Mayor Bill White: “Today I agree to consider running for Governor, and

THE CHRON CAUCASIAN THINK TANK warns ominously today that “evidence continues to accumulate that the threat [of man-made global warming] is accelerating,” and something must be done! Apparently, the CCTT took a cue from faith-based

The Chronicle ran an embarrassing correction last week: “The Mega Millions lottery numbers were incorrect in Wednesday’s editions. The correct numbers are in today’s lottery information on this page.” It’s not the first time the

LAST WEDNESDAY, a dog managed to strangle itself at BARC while an employee cleaned its cage. Unsurprisingly, White administration flacks delayed releasing any info until Friday, typically the day where news goes to die in

TEXAS WATCHDOG reports interesting details on the vague “conflict of interest” aside raised by the KPRC-2 story on the Parking Commission that Anne Linehan posted about yesterday: Joe Martin and Bruce LaPree were on the

THIS BLOG POST by Chron basketball writer Jonathan Feigen (he of the sometimes tortured prose) explains the latest Tracy McGrady controversy in detail, from an informed perspective. In contrast, here’s a blog post from KTRK-13

THE ANNISE PARKER CAMPAIGN emails that they’ve secured the endorsement of the Chron Caucasian Think Tank*. We’re disappointed. We were hoping for another lame dual endorsement that we could mock. * Cory Crow’s moniker for

CORY CROW comments on The Bill White-a-Palooza.