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moni

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  1. Seaweed is a valuable crop. Someone should harvest it and make a bundle. Simple enough to contract the cleanup of seaweed to a biomedical company.
  2. From: Galveston.com, - Over the past three years, the city has been bringing in sand to widen the beaches between 10th and 61st Streets - as much as 150 feet in places - modeled after similar "beach nourishment projects" in Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach.
  3. This is great, I love webcams and now I can watch the Pavilions progress.
  4. El Paso has many horned toads. We have plenty here in SW NM. They are protected by the State of NM and a very large fine for keeping them.
  5. Check out http://www.galveston.com/ It is mentioned that the beaches at the seawall have been built up with sand and that they are much wider than they used to be.
  6. My grandchildren love soccer. It is the only sport they care about. My kids enjoy basketball and we love the NFL. Times change. We need great soccer stadiums and not to make too many enemies here, but Texas A&M has a fabulous soccer stadium and one of my grandsons has a scholarship to same, so I'm seeing soccer as a big deal in a few years when all the youngsters grow up. We even have a big soccer field in our little town and the kids really turn out. No doubt in my mind, soccer is the game of the future.
  7. That's a "wind chill" factor, and I hate that cold weather too.
  8. You certainly are right and people should clean up after themselves but a public beach invites everyone, good and bad, just like neighborhoods. Maybe a strict enforcement of the rules and a really high fine for breaking the rules, at least $500. Probably more beach patrols would help. With all the new developments moving into Galveston, you can be sure that those people will become more vocal about beach and seawall littering. Hopefully these kinds of things will discourage the "lower classes", to stay home and mess up their own place. And I don't mean racial classes, I mean "dirty" people, they should keep their nasty selves away from others.
  9. To be honest Jax, I never experienced the "canyon effect" anywhere like downtown Houston. I am not a very large person and I have been downtown in Houston when it took 2 people to keep me upright. I guess I am a tunnel fan.
  10. Thank you worldlyman for your keen insights. I realize that complaints about the beach at Galveston are really made by people who only want the best for the city. The thing is, the majority of people are not even thinking about the beaches in terms of white or brown. Beaches are beaches, colors are colors, I mean...who cares really? Of course the city of Galveston has much to offer besides the beach.
  11. It isn't that the Houston zoo is bad, rather that a city the size of Houston, should do something nice for it's people. Give the residents some place to go and enjoy without costing them money. The Parks are great but families deserve a little more.
  12. Well, the St. Louis zoo is world famous and much larger with great exhibits, (90 acres). I can't remember when it wasn't nice and it is clean too. St. Louis is a very small city and the city charter will not allow it to grow. Most of the growth in that area is in the county. Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo is small but very good and extremely walkable. The little red squirrels follow you everywhere, lol. It is a true urban zoo. The problem with the Houston zoo, is the small size (55 acres), you can only do so much. Houston should keep this as an urban zoo and then build a world class zoo where they have more land. Also, Harris County could potentially support a larger zoo.
  13. This fare increase is not fair. Houston's zoo is not very large and should be free. I was raised in St. Louis where there is a wonderful zoo, it was free and still is. If St. Louis can offer a free zoo, then Houston can. I think the families of Houston deserve this and this would make an excellent campaign issue.
  14. News about Starwood: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...63&hbx=e_du http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/...alofthotels_com
  15. I think it is cool because it sort of looks like a stack of crackers. I can't think of another building like it.
  16. Students attending New Mexico State University are called "aggies" too. Agricultural colleges you know. :-)
  17. Oh well, I really love the colors and it is Quirky, just like Houston. Yes I love this thing.
  18. New info today: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...63&hbx=e_du
  19. In NYC you can't buy an "apartment" in a nice highrise no matter what your race or creed unless the owners agree to let you in. Usually no "show business" types are allowed. Also, they interview you and your life becomes an open book. They want to see your financial statements and your references have to be top of the line. It most certainly is discrimination of the worst sort and it is legal.
  20. I check the Galveston webcams daily. Doesn't look like a bad place to me and apparently has great appeal to the developers. I have "The Spot" webcams on my daily journal so everyone can see the fun place known as "Galveston".
  21. Maybe some of you oldtimers might remember a club downtown that had a Viking out front. He was a fully dressed version of a big Viking dude. I remember we sat on the floor on pillows. Can't remember the year.
  22. Well, ok, I know I can be reactionary at times, but why would anyone make a statement saying that Galveston needs another hurricane?? That's a terrible thing to say. I mean, nobody makes anyone go to Galveston. I happen to think it is a very special place and I have fond memories of my children growing up enjoying the beaches there. You people who hate Galveston should have seen Long Beach, CA when the oil derricks were up. I also enjoy the Ship Channel and the International Port in Houston. I love everything about the place and wxman really offends me with his comments.
  23. That is a very true statement. You know, sometimes a city such as Galveston just needs a little push to go in the right direction. Letters to the Editor regarding "trashy beaches" would help. Also, as the city builds up with all these new high rise condos, hotels, and possible casinos, the investors will insist that the beaches look as good as possible and it will follow. In the meantime, am a great believer in calls to the city and editorials, they have worked for me in my area.
  24. Probably a little off topic: Gosh, am I the only person that finds Houston's skyline breathtaking?? I have lived in Houston off and on since 1963 and have always loved the city. I have lived in Chicago also and enjoyed my time there, but I moved to Houston from Chicago where it was -16F, January 1963, arrived in Houston where the temp was 65F, I think that's when I fell in love. I love this forum, keep up the good work.
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