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On my way to Utah for my nephew’s wedding, I had forgotten my earphones and, for the first time, I bought something from one of those vending machines at the Houston Hobby Airport’s Southwest Airlines terminal – a pair of […] Read more...
Houston’s mayor says violent incidents won’t be tolerated after agroup of people on bikes swarmed a driver’s car, kicking a scratching it, and bashing in the windshield with a bike chain. It takes a major scumbag tosteal a 14-year old British boy’s bike after crashing into him wit...
” noting that “widening streets induces more driving, meaning more pollution burden locally and more greenhouse emissions further harming the climate.”Widening is expensive, and adversely impacts safety, health, climate, air, water, noise, housing, historic preservation,...
But city manager William Gambill said the new ordinance was based around complaints they got, that eventually made their way through the ordinance committee. What do you think? Did the city of Manistee go too far? Are they too focused on trivial ordinances over actual issues? Do they really...
Linklater had moved to town from Houston after seeing a couple of Austin movies, including Speed of Light, and his 1991 film Slacker had immortalized what was then old, weird Austin. In 1997, just in time for the film conference, the newly opened Alamo Drafthouse, a theater started by Tim...
Houston: Then A century after its founding as a port, Houston in 1929 exhibited the wealth from the early 1900s discovery of oil in the area. The two tallest buildings pictured here are the Esperson Building and the Texas Company Building (aka the Texaco Building), and the building under ...
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Voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance and handed gayrights supporters a stinging...Manny FernandezMitch Smith