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    They do. I know someone who interacts with people like this. But they don't stay with other people. They rent (or in some cases buy) houses for the duration of their stay, because often they are here for the better part of a year or more. There never seem to be enough extended stay hotels near large medical centers. If there was, Ronald McDonald House wouldn't be needed. Medical Center hotel occupancy is currently at 62%. That seems low to me, since other large American cities are reporting revenue exceeding pre-pandemic days. But all I've heard is revenue figures, not occupancy, so that could be a reflection of soaring hotel rates.
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    Maybe it's a real estate maximization strategy, like why limit your building to one demographic, when you can being in two. Similar to how restaurants realized that they were paying rent 24/7 on spaces they only used a fraction of the time. That's why every fast food company now does breakfast, and why some restaurants rent out their kitchens overnight as ghost kitchens or for companies to make bakery goods to deliver to coffee shops in the morning.
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    I think that's enough Trump talk in this section. This is supposed to be about state politics. There's a National section for Mr. Trump.
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    Yeah, that's the one I was thinking about. I haven't been there, but they put a sandwich sign on the sidewalk some days.
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    I don't think that's right. I knew about the Mall of the Mainland in 1999 just from driving by. It had a big sign facing I-45. The reason nobody stopped was because it was set far back from tree freeway and there was no obvious exit for access, especially at 70MPH.
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    Not a reputable source, and too far out for any kind of certainty. Look at how much turmoil there has been in the last 20 years. These people are trying to say they know what's going to happen over the next 80? Not a chance.
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    How long was he at the cathedral? i ask because priests get transferred all the time. A priest I was going off got transferred once and when I asked him about it, he said that unless there's a school attached to the parish, it's unusual for a priest to be stationed at a church for more than five years.
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    Glad to hear you're doing the right thing in terms of re-wilding your lawn. As for fireflies, don't be disappointed about not seeing one. According to Smithsonian Magazine, they're hard to spot much beyond the east coast: I once read that seeing fireflies is very hard west of the Mississippi. I know someone from a very rural area of the Midwest who's never seen one.
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    Following up to my own somewhat-off-topic post, I got a letter in the mail today from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and it makes a distinction between the parish and the cathedral, too. It reminds me that there is a basic distinction between a church/cathedral and a parish in modern Catholicism. There are plenty of churches and cathedrals with multiple parishes (many in Chicagoland), there are parishes with no church (I've seen this in Seattle), and even churches with no parish (Las Vegas). I think that was the root of my confusion above. I've long seen the two as distinct entities.
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    They're going to feel pretty foolish in ten years when the freeway is gone.
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    I think it might have been torn down before Allison. I worked a block away from 1999 to 2003, and have no memory of that place.
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    Because elections cost money, and the people and companies that profit from sprawl and the status quo donate money to pay for the candidates to be elected.
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    I wonder if the downtown location will stay open. I understand it does good business.
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    I've always found irony in the fact that so many people drive air conditioned luxury farm machinery to a gym so they can sweat.
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    Is about time. That "coming soon" sign has been there for at least two years. Though, I expect that having a gas station on this corner isn't going to be an asset to the neighborhood.
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    There's an article in the Chronicle this morning that Brookfield, which owns the Allen Center, Houston Center, and Heritage Plaza downtown is going to transition all three properties to solar power in the next two years. The power will come from a new solar plant still to be built. Irony: Those buildings are the offices of some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in Texas, and they have to pay Brookfield not only rent, but also for a portion of the building's electricity.
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    Well, now I feel a bit foolish, because I've seen that word a thousand times before, but somehow didn't recognize it this time. Thanks for the clue-by-four!
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    Interesting, thanks. By contrast, Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago does separate its parish from the archdiocese. Interesting that it's not consistent. Perhaps because Holy Name existed before the Archdiocese of Chicago was split off from the Archdiocese of Peoria. (Trivia: A couple of weeks ago, the Archdiocese of Las Vegas was created, split off from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.)
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    I think the best place for new murals in Houston is the giant blank concrete walls of the MFA/H. They own the rights to so many great paintings inside. Why not showcase them on the outside, and liven up the area?
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    All before my time. I didn't land at 39 until 2005ish. I still have a WB39 Houston pencil rolling around here somewhere…
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    Would the bishop be involved at all? I haven't been involved with Galveston-Houston the way I have been at other archdioceses, but in the ones I'm familiar with, this would be a parish-level decision. Like when the roof of the church I went to caught fire during renovations, the archdiocese wouldn't help us pay for a new one.
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    The library has miniature concerts every week at noon year-round. I wonder if this plaza could do something like that, except on a daily basis.
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    My observation of these types of conversions in other cities is that they take just as long, if not longer than condo/apartment conversion. I don't know for a fact, but I suspect the reason has to do with more units = more work to do. More walls to build. More plumbing to run. More fire suppression systems to install. More elevators to rehab. Things like that.
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    I have a couple of those I got from Mariano's markets in Chicago with the big Mariano's logo on the side. They're awesome. But only if I remember to bring them with me, which is not often enough. They're far more durable than they look, so I use them for all kinds of things around the house and neighborhood, otherwise I'd just leave them in the car ready for the supermarket. I used to have four, but I only have two right now. I had a garage sale a couple of years ago, and a guy whose name was actually "Mariano" showed up and his friends goaded him into buying two of them from me. I was just using them to drag things around, and they weren't for sale, but he offered $20 a pop, and I couldn't refuse.
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    Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo?
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