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12 hours ago, cityliving said:
Solar installer: How many solar panels do you want? Houston Endowment: Yes.
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4 minutes ago, EllenOlenska said:
Just google cats in Australia
Oh yeah I'm aware of all the problems they're having and the current restrictions they just put in place. I've had outdoor cats so I'm well aware of the amount of animals they kill.
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14 hours ago, Texasota said:
Elgin certainly has more ROW and this routing allows one fewer turn, so it makes sense.
Wouldn't it make sense to stay on Wheeler to Ennis? Even fewer turns. Maybe I'm just being salty cause the closest stop is now twice as far from my place.
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10 hours ago, bobruss said:
I'm torn about the new fed proposal about the wind farms, I like the idea of that resource to bring power to 2 million + homes, but I also worry about the migrating birds which would be heavily affected. Sea life would probably cluster around the platforms just like they do at the offshore rigs.
Not trying to belittle your concern for the affect of wind turbines on migratory birds but cats pose a larger threat to birds.
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On 7/14/2022 at 3:57 PM, BeerNut said:
Old route
Any thoughts on why they changed this segment routing?
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Here are pics of some of the slides that took at the Emancipation meeting on Tuesday.
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Houston business owners concerned about METRO's proposed bus rapid transit
QuoteThe proposed route would run along Richmond Avenue, where Abraham Aguilar runs a boot shop.
"Hopefully our quality withstands it, but I know we're going to lose business," Aguilar said. -
They've been open for a while. He was a staple at midmain pop up markets.
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METRO to launch pilot program opening high-occupancy vehicle, toll lanes on weekends
QuoteThis summer, Houston drivers will be able to ride select high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the weekends as part of a Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County pilot program. METRO’s board of directors approved the pilot program at its June 23 meeting.
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METRORapid University Corridor Project
Join us at the public meetings listed below to learn more about the METRORapid University Project, ask the project team questions, and provide input. We look forward to meeting you!
Tuesday, July 12
Meeting #1
Meeting will be held at the Chinese Community Center.
6-8 p.m.
9800 Town Park Drive Houston, Texas, 77036Meeting #2
Meeting will be held at the Emancipation Park Conservancy Cultural Center.
6-8 p.m.
3018 Emancipation Avenue Houston, Texas, 77004Wednesday, July 13
Meeting #3
Meeting will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Houston in the Greenway Ballroom.
6-8 p.m.
6 E Greenway Plaza Houston, Texas, 77046Meeting #4
Meeting will be held at the BakerRipley Ripley House (Gymnasium).
6-8 p.m.
4410 Navigation Blvd. Houston, Texas, 77011Thursday, July 14
Meeting #5
Meeting will be held at the Wisdom High School (Auditorium).
4:30-6:30 p.m.
6529 Beverly Hill Street Houston, Texas, 77057Meeting #6
Meeting will be held at Houston Community College, Felix Fraga Academic Campus. (Facilitated in Spanish / facilitado en español.)
6-8 p.m.
301 N Drennan Street Houston, Texas, 77003Saturday, July 16
Meeting #7
Meeting will be held at the Julia C. Hester House.
9:30-11:30 a.m.
2020 Solo St Houston, Texas, 77020Monday, July 18
Meeting #8
Meeting will be held at the Third Ward Multi-Service Center.
6-8 p.m.
3611 Ennis Street Houston, Texas, 77004Wednesday, July 20
Meeting #9
Meeting will be held at Houston Community College – Central Campus in the WW Harmon Building – Room WWH 100 (green building located on the corner of Holman and Caroline).
6-8 p.m.
1300 Holman Street Houston, Texas, 77004Thursday, July 21
Meeting #10
Meeting will be held at the Northeast Multi-Service Center.
6-8 p.m.
9720 Spaulding Street Houston, Texas, 77016Monday, July 25
Virtual Meeting #11
Meeting is virtual, and will be recorded and posted online afterward. The meeting link will be provided a few days before the meeting.
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25 minutes ago, editor said:
Is Hess considered major?
BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, ConocoPhillips. Looking online they they refer to these companies as supermajors but everyone I work with just says majors.
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I wonder if Shell be the last major with large offices in two states...
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2 hours ago, aachor said:
I agree that it is tacky. In fact, I find the whole building to be gaudy and ugly.
However, Houston has no shortage of sterile glass boxes. I think the city could stand to have a few tasteless, garish, and cheesy buildings.
Over the coming decades, for better or worse, this building will be a landmark. No doubt.Needs neon accent lighting.
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On 6/11/2022 at 4:43 PM, editor said:
My mom, who knew lots of people who took LSD in the 60's would beg to differ. She told me all kinds of horror stories about her friends who took LSD.
I suspect that today's modern tech-industry-fueled LSD mini-craze isn't real LSD, like back then; but some kind of watered down version. Like how people who currently drink absinthe scoff at it being illegal way back when, without knowing that what they're drinking today is 1/500th the potency of the drink that was killing people when it was banned.
There's a difference between death through consumption(like drinking till alcohol poisoning) and doing something life threatening while tripping. As for LSD drinks killing people.... trust but verify.
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8 hours ago, wilcal said:
The real answer is dropping the gas tax and instituting a carbon tax, but I digress...
Should tax based on weight as heavier vehicles cause more wear.
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On 5/27/2022 at 9:18 PM, Ross said:
No. I was thinking of Art Linkletter's daughter, which was an event when I was in elementary school that was held up as an example of what can go wrong if a person reacts badly to the drug.
Mighty suspicious that David E. Durston was with her when she jumped out of the window and also happened to be with another woman when she wound up dead from drowning. Some serious Robert Durst vibes...
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Proposed Riverside Terrace historic district has longtime residents fighting for their neighborhood
QuoteMahmood, who applied for the historic designation last year after moving to the neighborhood in 2018, wants to preserve the tree-filled area that he said “is slowly getting discovered.” Some neighbors agree with the proposal. Many disapprove.
The issue has roiled the usually quiet Third Ward neighborhood, prompting widespread opposition among residents — most of them Black, many of them with deep roots in Riverside Terrace — who say the proposed historic district isn’t necessary and would drive up expenses and property values. They fear the move could oust longtime residents.
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https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/sidewalk-ordinance-amendments.html
QuoteThe Planning and Development Department proposes amendments to the Sidewalk Ordinance to create a complete sidewalk network in the city by providing more sidewalk options and establishing a sidewalk fund and protocols for constructing sidewalks.
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12 hours ago, hbcu said:
where are you going to get enough kids to fill this? There are too many options nearby competing for the same type kid
*SCOTUS has entered the chat
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5 minutes ago, Ross said:
Not counting the ones who jumped out of windows thinking they could fly?
Are you referencing the incident where the CIA might have been involved...
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Taking pictures with the 311 app goes a long way.
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On 5/26/2022 at 11:14 AM, Reefmonkey said:
It speaks to the power of the tobacco lobby that cigarettes, with all their well-documented high health risks, continue to be legal for recreational use when the FDA has banned so many other products for even therapeutic use that had much lower risks. Ephedra, for instance, I'm not saying it shouldn't have been banned, but there were an estimated 12 million people using it at one point, and it was implicated in 155 deaths over a 13 year period. The CDC says cigarettes kill 480,000 people a year. They estimate 34,000 nonsmokers die from heart disease linked to secondary exposure a year. I don't think anyone died because their parent or spouse took ephedra. Over a 30 year period, something like 30 women who took phenylpropanolamine either as a decongestant or in Dexatrim for weight loss suffered an intracranial hemmorage, and data indicated that 1 woman might have a stroke out of every 107,000 to 3.3 million women who used PPA (normal stroke incidence rate is 0.6 per 1 million), and it was yanked off the market. How many smokers have heart attacks or strokes every year? If tobacco is such a dangerous product (which it is) why not just take it off the market?
Zero people have died directly from consuming LSD....just saying...
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On 5/18/2022 at 12:09 PM, Sanjorade said:
Literally said the same thing further up 😀😂
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@hindeskyWow, I've seen places in the West go all out but didn't realize we had one in Houston. With the increase in energy cost and questionable reliability probably more businesses and homes will consider solar.