dynamolover

Engines of our Ingenuity is now available as a podcast

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_det...?siteId=5183222

I find this man's signature phrase terribly annoying. "I'm Ed MAYberry. Houston Public Radio BIZness news.

Thanks for the links & quote! I wonder what the deal is with the girl they arrested.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/9339563/detail.html

You can chalk up murder #4 for the west end. Teenage girl killed a teenage illegal immigrant gang member a couple days ago in the Montrose Park. I didn't realize that Lamar H.S. had gotten so bad. I thought it was a good school, then I hear about a confrontation in the park with teens wearing clothing with Lamar insignia.

Alot of people may worry that Montrose is no longer safe, but I can guarantee that it's still very safe. The community has not changed. The problem is the same problem that you can have anywhere in the Houston area or suburbs. Illegal immigrants moving from one apartment complex to another or one rent house to another who have teenage children who are involved in gang activity. It said in the Chronicle that the teen who was murdered had no family here because his father had been deported back to central america.

This is a huge problem that has not frequently been mentioned in the immigration debate. You have a large criminal element that comes with illegal immigration. You have violent gangs and drug activity, not just people who want to work hard and improve their lives. There needs to be greater accountability in U.S. cities for apartment complexes and the people that are living in them. Every time I hear a protest rally about how important the Latinos are to our country, I think of all the criminal gang scum that filter into the country and how their conditions are responsible for Houston's rise in violent crime.

Where did you get the information that the victim was an illegal immigrant? Ther's no mention of immigration status in the KPRC coverage linked above.

Here's the Chronicle's coverage of the incident -- no mention there of anyone's immigration status:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3948940.html

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/3948935.html

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3945217.html

One of the above articles states that the boy's father "is in El Salvador," not that he was deported there. Care to explain how you know that the victim's father was deported, and that the victim was in the US illegally?

Well, those are just a few of the people at Lamar. Any large American high school has a few bad guys. That's like calling Klein Collins bad for having those Nazi guys. Also, the police do not know if the guys are Lamar students. There are some Lamar kids who suspect certain people as those involved.

My sister never made any complaints about safety at Lamar HS.

Lamar HS is trimming the student population, and that means kicking out transfer (non-zoned) students. Guess who is going to be kicked out first?

One of the Chronicle articles includes some interviews of current Lamar HS students. It doesn't indicate that gangs are a big problem on the school's campus. But I would expect the school's administration to be even more strict after this terrible incident.

Hello! I have lurked here a little bit and thought I would ask a question of you knowing souls. Almost by accident I made a big gain in a real estate investment in the Montrose area when I sold it to a developer about a year ago. He told me that the Heights were going be the next big area for development inside the loop.

So I have this capital from the house I sold in the Montrose and am looking to put in in real estate again. Houston is going to keep growing, right? The prices in the Heights seem pretty good, and I can imagine making a decent profit in a few years once the development in the area starts to boom.

But then I started reading about these groups of socialists in the Heights opposing new building. That could really limit my upside. So do you think there going to be successfull or will progress continue unabaded? I would really like to repeat my success in real estate investing (obviously) .

Thanks!