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It's probably a fair comparison to 'combine' the cities of Dallas and Irving - population, tall buildings stuff like that - then compare to Houston. Not too sure, would the geographic area be about the same?

I hate straight ticket voting... I think it's evil...

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At one time, straight ticket voting probably served a useful purpose, but now it seems to be an overall drain on society and a major contributor to partisan politics.

Why can't a white guy poke fun at a black guy who is trying to be a white woman?

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hahaha

I wish Fort Worth and San Antonio had teams.

Well its true if you read the newspaper, or watch the news. It tells you.

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New York papers dont seem to agree.

Azure and St. Anne Court will be neighbors.

Hehehe, its the "Convention hotel" scandal all over again, except Dallas style!

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It sure is, and the city council would be SO much more comfortable waiting a couple more years while business cycles reveal the most cost effective way for the city to help get it taken care of, but I dont know how much caution time they really have.

I glad Houston is getting this surge, it's overdue. It would be nice to see the state's biggest convention destinations cooperate in negotiations with the biggest of the yearly conventions. A three year rotation between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio could be a very attractive circuit for convention planners - a unique discount by dealing with one agency to plan three conventions. City and state economies prosper through a unified marketing/planning process as the biggest conventions of the industry are drawn into the state, rotate among the three cities and establish a stable fulcrum for the individual city convention bureau.

It's got wings!

I sure want the Astros to win last night.

Approximately 1/3 of the city's land remains vacant and suitable for development, Costa said.

And, the city can annex even more open prairie. Over the next 20 years, NE Tarrant and SW Denton counties area is expected to become home to hundreds of thousands of residents. Location of this mostly undeveloped area is the primary driver of the substantial population growth. The way-out-north extention of Dallas suburbs toward McKinney has become a hurdle for many relocating families wary of long commutes to DFW job centers in Dallas, Irving and Fort Worth. Residents of NE Tarrant & SW Denton counties will have exceptionally convenient access to job centers at Fort Worth, Las Colinas, Alliance & DFW airports and Dallas's central business district. As far as the lay of the land, some of the area is still covered by heavy woods, and the prairie is generally rolling and pleasant.

Most of the highways in the area are being updated, and commuter rail while not networked through out the area, will be easily accessed with commuter service currently available between Fort Worth and Dallas (TRE) as well as DART light rail stations at DFW Airport.

The baseball playoffs are just that; no deeper meanings here.

but it's fun to pretend

Can we agree on a data source (US Census, Rand McNally or TAM data center etc), and paste and/or provide link to the numbers. Then we can sift and distribute the prizes for fastest growing based on:

-municipal population increase - % of total

-municipal population increase - numerical gain

-metro population increase - % of total

-metro population increase - numerical gain

I suspect that Los Angeles area continues to realize the greatest numerical population increase, and would not be surprised to learn that recently, the Fort Worth metro area (not including Dallas metro) has one of the fastest growth rates; for the city of Fort Worth to have the fastest growth rate of all cities would not be too surprising, but the rate of increase will level off in a couple years.

Eminem is a very popular artist with his version of Hip-Pop; Hip-hop has been completely overshadowed by all the Hip-Pop.

MJ hasnt been proven guilty, just weird. I cannot think of a more appropriate artist than Eminem to make fun of MJ.

But in an astounding display of moral relativity, Black Entertainment Television network's president and founder Robert Johnson agreed to pull the video, saying he felt it was inappropriate to disparage a celebrity.

Disparage a celebrity? What a crock o' crap. Part of being a celebrity is accepting the good and bad things other celebrities and non-celebrities say. If you listen to the discussions on BET, you will hear a litany of celebrity bashing. Ro Johnson needs to keep it real. I for one would be relieved to hear a statement: "We like MJ, and dont appreciate anyone making fun of him, but when it's a white guy, that's the straw breaking the camel's back. We're pulling the video." There's nothing wrong with honestly expressing your views.

I love reading about the future of Fort Worth. I'm generally skeptical of the city population estimates over 1.5 million, but the build out of northern Tarrant County during the next 20 years will be led by "urban" Fort Worth.

pasted from the 'Houston and Phoenix" thread: As of this year, the Census Bureau redefined the metro areas and there are now 25 MSAs in the Lone Star state accounting for 77 of the 254 counties.

These changes resulted in adding 22 counties and dropping three. The San Antonio MSA gained four new counties, the most for any Texas metro thanks to its rapid outward expansion.

Big news for the San Antonio metro area to increase geographically. For three decades, San Antonio's population growth has been conservative when compared to most other very large Sunbelt cities, registering about a 20% increase in metro population from census to census. But the 2010 census will probably report more than a 30% population increase within the previously defined geographic area of the SA metro, while the population gains due to the geographic increase will contribute to a total population increase of 38-40% greater than in 2000.

The look of the city may be the most significant change. The central business district has little available office space, and a very large residential population - a condition both Dallas and Houston struggle to develop. In its sleepy, slower paced century of being a big city, San Antonio has always maintained an active downtown - which the new urbanist development trends are bringing back to Dallas and Houston after the suburban devistation. Population density, inventory of office space and inventory of residential options (to own and rent) in the downtown area of San Antonio will see dramatic increases as the number of new highrises match the number brought on line in Dallas and Houston.

Easily until 2020, both Fort Worth and San Antonio will be making the same kind of noise Dallas and Houston have been making, and much of the "progress" in FW and SA will come focusing non-Dallas & non-Houston atmopsheres. DFW is probably the biggest winner with two distinct urban areas so close. The Texas Triangle is going to get lots of attention, and if the pollution questions are at least partially answered, the attention may be even better than the most optomistic Texan can imagine.

We need to do something uniquely Texan going to a ball game like the Braves and their stupid chopping!

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You could rub your head and pat your stomach, at the same time.

It's a hollow complaint regarding sprawl in Houston, DFW, Atlanta, Phoenix etc. The great population growth in these and other southern citities has been made up primarily of young families who are chosing the specific neighborhood qualities which result in suburban sprawl. There is nothing wrong with buying a new house with a yard to raise a family.

So far as gerrymandering, it's a given. We can argue back and forth about which party is worse; the fact is they're both terrible. The current system is so deeply flawed that I think it's time to examine if there's a better way to send representatives to Washington who truly represent the diverse interests of a state.

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Go back to embarrassing us AFTER the season!

Hopefully being back at home will help 'em win the next two.

Embarrassing is hyping up consecutive division titles (in a crappy division) only to be outplayed in the first round of play-offs.

I cannot help but conclude that too many of our political leaders go about their lives operating outside/above the law as often as a career criminal.

It seems like some of the white people are freaking out at the prospect of being a minority.

It is calling on Republican candidates to return money they received from DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority political action committee (ARMPAC).

Personally, I think the Democrats are equally dubious as Republicans - an environment forced by today's political power struggles, but it's just too easy to rename DeLay's group (I'm probably behind the curve with this jab):

Americans for a Republican Majority political interest trust - ARMPIT.

Is it too much to ask someone to post the articles here? Living in Georgia, I've heard all about Newt, but all I know about Delay is that some people hate his policies almost as much as others support him.

crap

Sorry guys, but the way Astros looking, the Braves will move on to the next round. Sorry.

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Party over here, not over there.

I am laughing at what the Atlanta/Dallas guy said about us losing! I mean his little snide/snotty comment!

hahahahaha I know!

I gotta believe Atlanta's going to win. I'll be mad if I cant go to more playoff games (here in Atlanta), but I've been an Astros fan since I went to high school in Victoria - so at least I've got that.

The Braves win today.

Here's the stupid thing about the braves ..that stupid Tomahawk thing they do.

I couldn't even watch the Braves/Astros play b/c I got tired of that music!

You know, when I'm in my recliner watching the game on TV, I do the Tomahawk chop when the team needs me. I'm doing it right now.... HAHAHA and if it's not the most annoying thing a crowd does to cheer on the team, it's gotta be right up there.

My grandmother (father's mother) was a Comanche traditionally raised in the TX panhandle until forced to live on a reservation in OK during her teens. I could claim the native American herritage, but it was not included one bit in my upbringing, which logically tells why I dont feel the insult of mascots based on Native American stereotypes. As a boy, my dad was taught by his father to avoid our Comanche connection and therefore avoid the prejudice of the times.

Go Atlanta.