Subject: Bill White

• Horse Shrift

  January 3, 2007

• Boston Cream Bet

  November 9, 2006

• Bad Medicine for Bill White

  November 1, 2006

• Boston Cream Bet

  November 9, 2006

• Dynamo a Go-Go

  November 8, 2006

• Better Than Tarzan and Jane: The Grove Restaurant in Discovery Green

  December 11, 2007

• It's John Royal's Anniversary, and He's Celebrating with Stadium Talk

  March 20, 2008

• 5th Annual Guaranty Bank Tour de Houston

  March 19, 2009

• Positive Pub For Mayor White

  September 12, 2008

• Two Politicians, Two Responses

  September 16, 2008

• Sorry? For What?

  September 23, 2008

• Business with the Unusual

  Bill White steps into his own political spotlight

  February 6, 2003

• Six Feet Blunder

  Bring out your dead -- and wait

  September 9, 2004

• Election 2008: Winners and Losers

  November 6, 2008

• The Power Of Facebook Will Make Bill White Energy Secretary

  Mayor Bill White is being coy about his political future -- run for Governor? Senator? Get a job in the Obama administration? -- but others are not. Utilizing the single hippest method of communication since the princess phone, a cadre of White fans has a Facebook page calling for White to be named U.S. Secretary of Energy. The groundswell is building: The group began with eight members November 6; now it has 72. Obama, are you listening?

  November 13, 2008

• Texas Governor's Race: The Fun Is Beginning

  As you've no doubt heard, Kay Bailey Hutchison yesterday took the first steps to enter what would be a highly, highly entertaining GOP primary for the governorship next year (Just think of the hair-care budgets alone between her and Rick Perry).What about the not-so-boy wonder from Houston, Mayor Bill White? Is the term-limited hizzoner going to run for governor or for the Senate?We'll find out next week, White told Channel 13's Miya Shay.

  December 5, 2008

• Who Would You Rather?

  So the other night my dear friend Tamarie and I spent too long on the phone engaged in a game called Who Would You Rather? You know, that classic girl game of who you would rather sleep with. The problem was that Tamarie was high on prescription cough syrup, and I'd had a couple of G&Ts, so the conversation was a little odd. Me: Mattress Mac or Marvin Zindler? Tamarie: Marvin Zindler alive? Me: Of course! Tamarie: Very old or just old? Me: Just old. Tamarie: Mattress Mac.

  January 22, 2009

• The Mayor's Race, In Chart Form

  The race to replace term-limited Bill White as Mayor of Houston is starting to heat up, in terms of various candidates leaking word that they're interested. The conventional wisdom so far counts four major candidates; unless the conventional wisdom is wrong (and when has that ever occurred?), one of these four people will be the next mayor of Houston.As always, it is best to examine such things in chart form. After the jump, we do our civic duty. Update: We did our civic duty miserably -- Gene

  January 27, 2009

• What's So Bad About That Bill White-MLK-Obama Ad, Anyway?

  Ever since Isiah Carey broke the story on his Insite blog, most of the other media outlets in town have followed up with items on the allegedly offensive advertisement that Mayor Bill White took out in the Houston Defender, a black paper, for Martin Luther King Day.This is, supposedly, a terrible thing because it equates White with two icons of the black community.What the critics fail to realize, however, is that the ad is simply derived from the mayor's standard template for such things. We'v

  January 30, 2009

• The Insider

  November 14, 1996

• Chalk One Up For The Blogosphere: Houston's Plan To Pay Off Debts For New Homeowners Is Dead

  That didn't take long.The Chronicle reported this morning that city council (i.e., Mayor Bill White) was considering a plan to pay debts to help first-time homebuyers purchase houses.You can imagine how well that went over once it hit Drudge.Any subtlety -- and there was some -- got buried under outrage over helping people buy homes they can't afford. There was merit to the arguments against the plan, but merit wasn't much needed when you could paint a picture of tax dollars going to pay for wid

  February 24, 2009

• The Rebirth Of A Cemetery

  Photo by Olivia Flores AlvarezOlivewood Cemetery, established just after the end of the Civil War, is home to Houston's first freemen. Among the buried are a 100-plus-year-old woman who came to America on a slave ship in the late 1770's but lived long enough to see the end of slavery, the man who started a music program for black public schools, and a reverend who was shot to death by a man the newspaper reports referred to as "above average intelligence for his race."But Olivewood has been si

  April 3, 2009

• BARC Sucks

  January 29, 2009

• Bad News For Bill White's Senate Run?

  Photo courtesy Bill White for TexasChris Cillizza, the hyper-connected political writer at the Washington Post, has gotten his hands on a polling memo outlining the Texas Senate race.The bottom line: Not good news for Bill White.Cillizza says (scroll down for "Texas Senate Numbers") the poll was taken by Jef Pollock, a Democratic pollster, but notes Pollock wouldn't say which candidate paid for it."Pollock would not say who he conducted the survey for (odd) but reading the memo suggests he is wo

  April 15, 2009

• Bill White, the F-word and "Gatemouth" Brown

  Bill White offends Georgians

  October 2, 2008

• RIP, Some of Our Best Of Houston® Winners

  Hardly Knew Ye

  September 25, 2008

• Send in the Election Clowns

  Don't worry, they're here

  November 13, 2003

• Tax Break for the Rich II

  March 6, 2008

• Tax Break for the Rich; Roger Clemens at the Capitol; Green Sex

  Mayor White gets help from the appraisal district

  February 21, 2008

• Freedom, Now!

  Get banged this Fourth

  June 29, 2006

• New Year's Resolutions for Houston

  We have a lot to forgive – and forget – about 2005; here's hoping local celebs do better next year

  January 19, 2006

• Bayou Ball

  Music, dance, poetry, theater and hoops take over Sunnyside Park

  September 1, 2005

• Got Your Health

  How much more can you cut?

  June 23, 2005

• Best Identity Crisis

  September 23, 2004

• Best Place to Meet People with Large Discretionary Incomes

  September 23, 2004

• He Won't Back Down

  The mayor was threatened -- or maybe he wasn't

  June 3, 2004

• Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  Houston's sweet-and-sour inaugural

  January 8, 2004

• Food for Political Thought

  White becomes Houston's big tuna -- and that's no yolk!

  December 25, 2003

• The Six-Year Itch

  City Hall reality series: Who survives on Bill White's island?

  December 18, 2003

• Why Can't They Be Friends?

  Bill and Annise confront a City Hall curse

  December 11, 2003

• Election Ennui

  Why the mayor's race hasn't caught fire

  November 6, 2003

• Is This Guy Too Smart to Be Mayor?

  Bill White hopes brains and big bucks will get him elected

  October 30, 2003

• In Search of Bogus Bill

  How a would-be dirty trick became campaign comedy

  October 9, 2003

• If He Could Turn Back Time...

  Sylvester Turner's second coming

  July 17, 2003

• Let's Pick On Orlando!

  Early mayoral forums hint at the strategies to come

  July 3, 2003

• Bill's Bargain Tax Bill

  The county says a candidate's home value is no White lie

  June 12, 2003

• Bill White: Mayor, Senate Candidate, NBA Tweeter

  The Rockets won a thriller last night, and as always our Ben DuBose was there to cover it and Twitter it.But he wasn't the only Twittering fool -- also giving us deep insight 140 characters at a time was Mayor Bill White.His actual game tweets (and our occasional comments):1. Get ready it is tip off time!!! (Be still our hearts.)2. Rockets 9, Trailblazers 13. Rockets need to pick it up on defense. (OK, coach.)3. Yao has 6 points 3 boards Oden can not handle him. 4. Rockets 25 Portland 17. T

  April 27, 2009

• The Dallas Observer Learns About Interviewing Bill White

  Photo by Sam Merten​Our sister paper the Dallas Observer tagged along recently as Houston mayor Bill White visited a suburban deli and learned what it's like to deal with the generic, content-free answers the big man uses when he doesn't want to reply to what you're asking.The headline? "Will Senate Hopeful Bill White Consider Jumping Into the Governor's Race if Kay Bailey Hutchison Keeps Her Seat? We're Still Not Sure, and We Asked Him Four Times.""Houston Mayor Bill White's speech Saturday a

  October 26, 2009

• Vote With a Bullet: Songs for an Otherwise Ho-Hum Election Day

  ​ The run-up to the 2009 elections has been quite a letdown compared to the fascinating and occasionally surreal 2008 campaigns. Obviously, there's nothing that can compare to last year's Presidential contests, and the local mayoral race has been less than compelling. We were going to present this as a list of songs to listen to while waiting in line to vote, but considering that area turnout is estimated to be in the 30 percent range and you'll probably be in and out of the booth in a matter

  November 3, 2009

• Bill White, Getting Grilled On Fox 26

  Fox News (the local kind), you giveth and you taketh away.First, you go live to Roy Morales HQ, giving the candidate the rare chance to appear on TV (explaining why he's failing miserably). A dedicated coterie of supporters is bunched behind him in the perfect camera angle to make it look like he has a dedicated coterie of supporters, and you go LIVE to your reporter, and....the sound goes out. The world misses the wisdom that no doubt ensued. (Incredibly, the Fox anchor blamed the fact that the

  November 3, 2009