VicMan

The TEA commissioner said that the TEA has revoked NFISD's accreditation and formally ordered it to close. HISD will annex the district. This pends the approval of the justice department. http://www.khou.com/...-133715073.html Many aspects have not yet been answered http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/North-Forest-ISD-nears-closure-2265052.php

This Fondren Elementary, right? http://schools.houstonisd.orondrenES It's now in the City of Houston, but at the time it may have been in an unincorporated area

It's not the fact that it's "rebel" per se, but that its specifically based on the Confederated States of America. The CSA stuff is not popular among large segments of society today. AFAIK "Rebels" are still the mascot for Westbury, but they've removed all of the CSA-related stuff

Just to be thorough, the letter has the organization's phone number, 832-356-7834 I am going to use http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis⊂=phonenr to trace it I'm not sure if this gives additional insight, but anyway here are attributes of the organization's phone number " Information on phone number range +1 832356XXXX Number billable as geographic number Country or destination United States City or exchange location Houston, TX Original network provider* Bandwidth.com Clec, Llc - Tx *) Number portability has not been taken into account"

It's good that TheNiche is putting the info in text, because now the info is searchable on Google. So somebody will be able to find out who the president of the organization is In case the organization takes it down, here's a saved copy at http://www.webcitation.org/635B4Lfhg

The phone number and PO box are not enough. It is important to know the real names of the leadership, and the address of the organization's offices. Since it does not have an office, it defaults to the residences of the leadership.

If it IS deemed to be cost effective, I could think of some of the stops (not every trip would stop at every stop) Which stops do you think would be viable? Terminus: Houston Suburban Houston: Aldine/Greenspoint, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Willis In-between (Houston to Dallas): New Waverly, Huntsville, Madisonville, Centerville, Buffalo, Dew, Fairfield, Streetman, Richland, Angus, Corsicana, Suburban Dallas: Ennis, Palmer, Ferris, Wilmer-Hutchins Terminus: Dallas Of the in-betweens, I certainly think Huntsville and Corsicana would be fairly important. Not sure about the others.

So how would these guys claim environmental standing?

The best way to oppose the "Responsible Urban Development for Houston" is a protest outside of their headquarters. Unfortunately http://rudh.org/ only indicates a PO box and not an office address However a WHOIS (a search of the parameters of a website registration) reveals the registrant is "Christopher Athans" - So we know the name of one person responsible, and can send negative feedback/can protest against this person's actions If the address of an organization is also the owner's residence, would it be acceptable to hold a picketing drive outside of the said residence?

A friend of mine lives in one of the small apartments complexes in that area. So far he's had a good experience!

Honestly I think United Airlines should buy the naming rights. That would make it up for how UAL didn't put its HQ here.

Several of the news articles analyzing the Borders collapse said that because Barnes and Noble got to work on the Kindle and an online presence sooner, B&N adapted to modern times better than Borders did. I'm not sure how Books A Million is adapting. They had to have done something that prevented them from collapsing like Borders did. Also Downtown and Katy Mills are Books A Million's only locations in the Houston area.

And now that Borders is going away, Books A Million may be getting more bang for its buck out of its HP location.

HISD hasn't stated what it will do with the campuses Unlike Wilmer Hutchins, I think the NFISD campuses are in okay shape, so I think they will remain open. This may be a blessing for Kashmere, though, as HISD could rezone Settegast to Kashmere and leave other NFISD areas zoned to NFHS. If it were up to me I would redraw the boundaries of Kashmere, NFHS, and Furr so that some territory of NFHS goes to Kashmere and Furr- that way each school has about 1,000 students. - More or less I would rezone Settegast to Kashmere. The area around East Houston post office would remain NFHS. Dyersdale would remain NFHS. Lakewood.. it may go to NFHS, or it could go to Kashmere...

The State of Texas has ordered North Forest ISD to shut down in 2012. The district management is trying to fight it: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8248590 It's about time that the district goes. Houston ISD will be the one picking up the territory in 2012. The U.S. Department of Justice will have to approve of the closure. Since it approved the closures of Wilmer Hutchins ISD and Kendleton ISD (other small, mostly African-American school districts), I don't see it denying the closure of NFISD.

While AFAIK they don't have self-checkouts, HEB has PLU stickers so that checkout by human of fruit, etc. is expedited. PLU stickers would really help with self checkout. Typically if I have a lot of produce I go human, but if I have just a few items and all are barcode, I do self.

And Abidjan, New Orleans, Beirut, Casablanca, and Kinsasha too, right?

Charter flights are very common with vacationgoers in Europe, but not so much with the United States Continental hasn't been to Noumea in a long time Delta hasn't announced plans to drop snacks yet.

And another step is to tax junk food and/or to make it ineligible for purchase using Lone Star cards

In this case it was a waste of time to protest this Wal-Mart, knowing everything stated earlier in the thread. s3mh, please don't promote jousting at windmills. Please don't promote Don Quixote-ism. Knowing that Houston is not a Spring Valley, and that it is not a Helotes, and knowing that all of the evidence points to the development being 100% within the law and regulations, it would not be possible to oppose this Wal-Mart.

Well, yes, marketing is marketing and it's not likely that a high name chef will locate in a strip center. Having said that, I've had great food in non-chain restaurants located in strip centers. Try visiting Chinatown sometime. Plus sometimes people do want KFC, Arby's, etc.

Yeah. Spring Valley is a separate city from Houston, so Spring Valley can do that.

Where have they been kept out of in Houston? I know Wal-Mart has been kept out of New York City, but that is a city with zoning and more restrictive laws. Houston has no zoning. This may still be a PR issue for Wal-Mart, but the store is going to be built. If they aren't willing to talk to Wal-Mart and ask them to build the store a certain way, they are out of luck.

How many years ago was that? Things can change, and what is once unattractive may become attractive, or vice versa.

Thanks to the presence of Orbitz, Travelocity, and other comparison websites, the behavior of many customers is to pick the lowest fare no matter what. Accordingly that's the direction that the market went. Continental could still give perks to people who are in the OnePass program, rewarding customer loyalty and making the people who always comparison shop among different airlines pay for certain extras. Even though there have been new charges across the board, I still like to fly because I anticipate very lovely destinations in front of me. If I was taking a redeye every week, flying would get old. But because I only fly occasionally, to me flying is still special.