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Another problem I see with a tollway in the middle of 288 is safety... I've seen people fly along Beltway 8 and the Hardy Toll road at break-neck speeds... it's like people figure they've paid for an open road, and dammit, they're going to use it. Especially when there are poor suckers crawling along in the congested free lanes, you really have to stick it to them by going 90 mph in the middle.

I am a close friend of the new owners of this property and they tell me they cleared the lot because of letters they received from the HPD Neighborhood Protection to clean up the property. No one was sure why HPD would care, but my friends were threatened with a fine.

Thanks for the info, Dalai... now, the next question has to be, what are your friends going to do with the property, and when? Inquiring HAIFers want to know!

I agree. I used to work right around the corner from there. Stewart Cadillac is increasingly inappropriate in that Midtown neighborhood.

Before they knock down Stewart Cadillac, though, I hope they do something about the Career and Recovery Resources buildings nearby.

They've got drunks urinating in a doorway and then plunking down and going to sleep in their own urine. Heroin addicts shooting up right on the sidewalk in plain view of everyone. Crack heads walking into businesses and asking for jobs while casing the place. It's scary.

I know I'll take flak for what I just wrote. Everyone talks about how great it is to provide services for the homeless, and rehabilitate drug addicts. Certainly it's a noble cause. But nobody ever thinks about the impact those facilities can have on neighborhoods. Midtown is a perfect example of why they should start.

Aww, I like that place. They fixed up my car after a hit and run. Nice guys work there.

Edited to add: I got hit; I was not the hitter in the hit and run!!

Uh... no. Not really. No.

It's not anymore confusing than telling my right foot from my left foot.

No need to be obnoxious. I was just answering his question.

I'm still trying to get this straight, UH has open enrollment? So, if I don't get this acceptance letter in the coming weeks, I can walk up a couple of months before school starts and enroll?

No, UH doesn't have open enrollment. UHD does. It's confusing, isn't it?

If my previous post confused you, sorry. I didn't mean "everyone" gets in; I meant they let a lot of students in, but not too many make it through.

the UH main campus does not have open enrollment....TSU has also ended their open enrollment this year......UHD/HMU has open enrollment and has stated a comittment to keep it for now....and I agree UH will not stand out further until they increase admissions requirements and graduation rates....which should go hand in hand

Stephen F. Austin is not a part of the Texas State System they are a freestanding university with their own board of regents.....along with TSU, Midwestern State, and TWU since TWU stopped calling themselves a system and took their Dallas and Houston campuses back under the main campus in Denton

Lamar (and their branches), Sam Houston, Sul Ross (and their Rio Grande Colleges), and Texas State San Marcos are the only members of the current Texas State System

I'm not sure I agree. UH reminds me of the French universities (as far as I understand them): anyone can get in. But it's really tough to make it, once you're there. I like the idea of giving lots of students the chance to succeed, especially in a city like Houston with so many immigrants and children of immigrants. But once you get in, you have to be a fairly serious student to make it. So there's a high attrition rate. I don't know what all that does for the reputation of the school, but it should mean that someone with a degree from UH worked pretty hard to earn it, and therefore the degree means something.

Confusion is bad. Just because the confusion has history doesn't make it good confusion.

When I first moved here several years ago, I signed up for an evening class at UH. I looked on my trusty Houston map to see where the campus was, spotted it immediately, and headed downtown. It took quite some time of wandering through the main building, looking for someone to ask, before I finally learned that I was at the wrong university.

And the thing is, I'm really not stupid. Having two schools called "UH" located a couple of miles from each other is just confusing.

Well, it's not the best choice, but lord knows it's not the worst choice either so we should be happy about that. "HMU" is a reasonable good acronym; perhaps people will confuse it will HBU but some people will manage to confuse just about anything.

Anybody?

Hey Jax, thanks for posting this question... I was wondering the same thing. I see it as a good sign. Though I suppose they could be planning to sell the lot, and want it to look more lot-like (as opposed to old-growth-forest-like).

I estimate at least 75% of this problem is due to one light; it's the last one on 518 going eastbound just before you go under the 288 overpass. That light is on a 20 second timer, which is far too short to process the backlog of vehicles traveling eastbound. You probably saw the gridlock which frequently occurs behind it at the intersection of Business Center and 518.

Why the city hasn't fixed this light yet, I don't know, but it's been on that 20 second timer ever since the towncenter opened.

Yup, that's the one.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-12-04/new...cklash-at-hisd/

There are families with children in Midtown.

I haven't read the Press article yet, but I was told that some really involved parents helped make that school very good, and the reward is that HISD is closing it and sending the kids to a school that is not any good. Another stellar decision by HISD.

I was in the neighborhood last night for the first time in months... I couldn't believe all the changes, particularly on the stretch of 518 between 288 and Southern Trails. It's exciting to see so many nice stores and restaurants there, great for all the residents. On the down side, headed back to 288 around 6:00 pm. (on a sunday!), it took 10-15 minutes to get through the lights. I sat through some of them probably 10 times. They REALLY need to address that situation; the traffic was completely crippled.

I hope that Rice wouldn't change their name...since Baylor Med is apparently broke, why not absorb them?

The "clash of cultures" seems imminent. I say no.

Rice won't change their name. They will acquire a medical school.

I think the real culprit is that the project had such a silly name. "Turnberry Tower." Who would want to live there? It sounds like a new kind of Captain Crunch cereal.

I think Houston City University is the best and clearest choice... you can't possibly confuse it with anything else around the metro area. HCU (although one letter away from HBU) is a nice clear set of inititals. I agree that the name change is needed just b/c UH and UH-D are in closer proximity to each other than the other system schools. But HCU is a nice name that the university could be proud of.

Cibolo sucks, nobody cares about the former name of Buffalo. Houstonians may now where Allen's Landing is, but they don't want a university named after it. Houston Center is a development, and real Houstonians know that downtown isn't actually the "center" of the city.

HCU, HCU, HCU

nice! It's even website ready.... there's no domain name for www.hcutx.edu

Agree... that is by far the best choice.

I noticed them building the mini-train's new stops near the TMC (across from Palmer/Hermann) and the Rice rail stop. Should be interesting.

that gave me a very funny image of a bunch of folks in scrubs, parking their cars in the free zoo lot at about 7:00 a.m. and piling into the mini-train for a ride to work. I hope they at least wave to people as they go by, like the usual mini-train riders do.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5985207.html

Continental announced that it will begin charging for the first checked bag in October.

So, why don't we show the airline how silly this decision is by writing letters.

If that fails and October comes, do not check any bags for any reason on the airline. I would prefer that the airline raises ticket costs as opposed to tacking a fee on the passengers.

And another thing... if this is all about weight and fuel costs, how about putting passengers on the scale? Because when I travel with my two sons, who weight 20 pounds and 40 pounds, I think I should be allowed to carry around 250 pounds worth of free luggage. I'm paying full price for the smallies to fly, and they weigh practically nothing. But they do require stuff.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5985207.html

Continental announced that it will begin charging for the first checked bag in October.

So, why don't we show the airline how silly this decision is by writing letters.

If that fails and October comes, do not check any bags for any reason on the airline. I would prefer that the airline raises ticket costs as opposed to tacking a fee on the passengers.

that is so aggravating. I was always happy that Continental hadn't succumbed to these ridiculous measures. So much for that.

My 1st day of college class starts I am excited. Does not feel like when High school starts it's a big diffrence! What do yall remember about what your 1st day of college was like? Thank God I dont have an 8:00am class like my twin and my roomate!!! That was my birthday gift to myself no early classes!

I go to PVAMU all the way out on 290. Not how I wanted to spend my 18th birthday all the way out here getting settled in my dorm but the club can wait. LOL

Advice from the prof:

Read the syllabus!!

sorry if im a bit ignorant, but does the name change mean that they will no longer be part of the UH system?

No, nothing would change but the name.

I like and was thinking the exact same thing before reading skyphens post:

University of Houston at Buffalo Bayou

somone should campaign/run with that

Bayou University?

Bayou City University?

ugh! who comes up with this pretentious crap?

Can't you just picture some pretentious prick drooling over that description?

My overactive imagination is quick to picture scenarios of psychotic escapees wandering onto my street. I beg the indulgence of all HAIF'ers while I struggle with this paranoia.

Being in that house would likely make someone psychotic if they didn't start out that way, so I think you're right to be paranoid! I looked at the pictures after reading people's responses, and I was still struck dumb by the ceilings. I

t also seems very weird to me to spend millions on a house and not purchase at least one little tree to put around it.

Cracker Barrel has great food....and yes the biscuits are hmm hmm good!

So what I'm hearing is that Pearland is getting french fries, biscuits, and chicken-fried-steak. Good thing it's close to the medical center!!

Olive Garden is frozen dinners. The only reason I would go there was if my microwave or freezer were broken and I really just had to have some microwaved frozen food.

I've always been an Olive Garden snob, because I had a terrible meal there about ten years ago in upstate New York. But we went recently with the kids, who are little and tough to bring to restaurants. We had the nicest, most thoughtful waitress I've ever had in a restaurant, who brought cut up fruit for the baby without being asked, for example. The bread was great, the salad was good, and the rest of the food was fine. No, it's not great quality food, but it certainly has other virtues--service, for example. I probably won't go back, but I'm not going to knock it anymore, either.