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I believe @Texasotais correct. I bike on the sidewalks all the time, including going right past the westside police station on a regular basis. The main problem I've found with sidewalks is that sometimes they're in poor repair. West of the beltway they've been rebuilding the sidewalks along Richmond. I don't think I've seen that work going on east of the beltway, though.

Shostakovich was more of a survivor than a communist. Maybe you should be watching KHOU? You know full well that this is not the first time in her life Alex has been sitting pretty. I provided photographic proof of that earlier in this thread.

I missed this point and only caught it while rereading. I can see how a truly leftist government would mean an economy entirely ruled by the government, but am not seeing how a MAGA government would mean the same thing. Surely you're not suggesting that MAGA is in fact the full-fledged fascist philosophy that Democratic party propaganda claims?

Point about shade well taken. Further west Richmond does have bike lanes, though I don't trust those at all since they just narrowed the existing lanes. Is that what we are talking about or something a bit more protected?

I would think that the proposed westpark off-street path would be a better fit for that corridor.

I gather it's only going to be 20' taller, is that correct? If so, isn't it an architecturally accepted practice to add something decorative to push the height up? I'm sure we could fabricate something to top Austin. My vote would be a giant spinning Buc-ee's sign... Or perhaps a 30' hand sculpture in a familiar gesture with one finger up and the others folded in...pointed in the direction of Austin?

Aladdin's castle...now that brings back some memories.

Is James Coney Island still in business? The one near city centre has seemed vacant for a while now.

It's the next area being developed just west of Cinco Ranch/Katy. Once they complete the Bray's bayou trail all the way to Fiorenza park at hwy 6 you'll be able to bike a mostly protected route from Harrisburg Blvd near the ship channel to all the way to the edge of Fulshear. I'm pumped about that because a connector to the trail runs along the edge of my subdivision. Once it's complete, I'm thinking about doing a multiday bike tour of Houston, staying at hotels like the UH Hilton along the way (or maybe the ZaZa in the museum district if I decide I can part with the requisite cash. 😀)

Commercial shipment across which border?

Perhaps fentanyl coming through our "secure" southern border?

So is the procedure just to checkout a bike, ride to the next station, check it in and then check out another one or is there a way to do this without switching bikes at every station?

The should have led with this...😛 Unless their proposal was to replace with Apple products, in which case they should be immediately impeached...😮

I recall recently seeing a proposal to hire 1,000 new officers, but for a different law enforcement organization.

Would 12 hr shifts lead to burnout?

I kept this one pinned to the wall during my years in cubicle-land.

There's a chance that the cartoon they ran in this case was a reflection of how chron employees feel about their workplace. Perhaps it's a coded plea for help...

Politics is usually more about feelings than reality. That really should be no surprise. What I think we can agree on is that there has been a spike in crime here and nationwide. While I'm skeptical that anyone can suddenly hire 1.000 new officers, is there some doubt that a greatly increased police presence would serve to dampen crime in general? Or, without even hiring the new officers, just giving the impression that there will be a crackdown will lead many criminals to be less active?

Nextdoor is hot mess of nimbyism and overconcern for everyone else's business.

Scott Adams is a genius. Dilbert is proof.

That article is behind a paywall. Any chance you can summarize what they said?

Proposed trail improvements advance along Brays Bayou https://abc13.com/project-brays-bayou-improvement-trail-improvements-braeswood-and-meyerland-areas/12213693/

I think you need to read the second sentence again. My position on polls in general is that there is only one that means anything and that one won't happen until early November. So, to slightly modify your "reasonable response" above I'd say "Because I don't trust polls, I don't find this particularly concerning." That's not to say Mealer won't get shellaced in November, but I'm not going take this a definitive proof that she will either. Like I said before, let's revisit this after the election and see how close the UH/TSU polling actually got. But...just to play along here...I pulled a report from the same organization focused on the statewide races and that shows Abbott leading O'Rourke. So, just for the sake of argument, let's say the UH/TSU polls are dead on. That would leave us with Harris county blue (as you predicted, I believe) and Hidalgo as County Judge. It would also leave us with Abbott as Governor. That would be a continuation of the current status quo. I can live with that, since my primary objection to Hidalgo is her overreach during covid. Abbott stepped in and quashed that fairly quickly so we know he will act as a check on her. It's a curious coincidence that on the right side of the spectrum there is concern that Democratic party operatives want to install an authoritarian "I Know Better than You" government, most recently using California and New York as examples.

If we're talking about hands, I'll defer to @mattyt36 as the expert on that in this particular race.

Polls are fun and all, but the 2016 poll debacle showed you can't really take them very seriously. I'd say that if the trend was just the opposite as well. In the case of the poll above, I followed the link to the actual document and found this... https://uh.edu/hobby/txtrends/countyjudge22.pdf Someone let me know if I pulled the wrong document or if I'm reading this wrong but it sounds like they polled a whopping 195 people for this and ended up with a confidence of +/-7%. I have my doubts as to whether that's even a statistically significant sample. But, like I said, polling can be fun to argue about even if it's not particularly meaningful. We should pin this one and come back to it in two months to see how it turns out.