VicMan

If their posts indeed display racism, have them reported. If people report and get the admins to delete bad posts, chron.com would be a much better place.

At my high school health class was taught differently, depending on the teacher one got. My teacher had us read a textbook, with minimal talking, for the entire class period. There was no actual instruction from her; she just had us read the textbook for four class periods of the week. For the fifth we took a quiz based on the chapter of that particular book. It was funny seeing how some kids goofed off during the period, but I think this shows how some people teaching health didn't care about the subject at all.

The just punishment for an identity thief is hard labor to repay all of the damages he or she caused that were unable to be reversed.

Well, all cell phones ought to be turned off - both for the audience and the speaker.

These town hall meetings need: * Security guards * Clear rules prohibiting interrupting others * Clear rules prohibiting "town hall yelling" * A "town hall yeller" will be asked to stop by the guard * if a ruckus is caused, the guard will have a piercing whistle that will hurt everyone's ears, forcing them to stop * A person who repeats "yelling" activities will be photographed, identified, and escorted off of the premises. He/she will be banned from every town hall meeting across the country

Gulfton is zoned to Lee High School, Long Middle School, and several elementary schools.

If we have a Musicman day, we need to include pictures of the 1950s music and film stars that he uses as his avatars in the top "theHAIF.com" panel on the forums.

According to http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/seniordeath.asp some people feel that will happen if the federal government has enough incentives for a federal health care system and/or enough disincentives for a private system. The thing is, these HMOs deserve being cut down. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html?em "Yet private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly: insurers deny as many claims as possible, and they also try to avoid covering people who are likely to need care. Horror stories are legion: the insurance company that refused to pay for urgently needed cancer surgery because of questions about the patient’s acne treatment; the healthy young woman denied coverage because she briefly saw a psychologist after breaking up with her boyfriend." I would prefer that the federal government covers everyone who needs coverage, even if the care and services are imperfect, instead of having people who need health care coverage denied health care coverage.

This is a blog with multiple articles. Which one(s) are you referring to? EDIT: He seems to be referring to this entry: http://lonestartimes.com/2009/08/13/obama-camp-plants-fake-doc-che-fan-at-jackson-lee-forum/

Also the north Houston areas started to become more low income as the 1990s progressed. The three remaining locations in Houston and the remaining suburban locations are in fairly well off parts of the greater Houston area.

Did the FAO Schwartz Galleria close due to specific issues with having toy stores in the City of Houston? Or was it a larger problem with the chain? Here is a list of the remaining Toys R Us locations in Houston: * Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us #7019 - 1449 Bay Area Boulevard * Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us #7031 - 6145 Westheimer Road * Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us #7036 - 1212 Old Spanish Trail Remaining stores in the Houston area: * Baytown: Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us #7013 - 4815 I-10 * Humble: Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us #7012 - 20450 Highway 59 North * Katy: Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us #7050 - 25024 Katy Mills Drive * northwest Harris County: Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us #7009 - 1723 West FM 1960 * Pasadena: Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us #7002 - 5651 Fairmont Parkway * Sugar Land: Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us #7046 - 16618 Southwest Freeway * The Woodlands: Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us #7039 - 1420 Lake Woodland Drive I remember driving down I-45 to Bush Airport. I used to see two Toys R Us locations, with one by the northside Fiesta and one in Aldine/Greenspoint. First the northside one closed and then became a Star Furniture location. The Aldine one went later.

If the City of Houston had a campaign to raze slum apartments, occupancy rates at existing apartments across the metropolitan area would increase. Then there are the unincorporated areas adjacent to or near the city limits, like Aldine, Mission Bend, Westfield, etc. Harris County has no zoning, so people have less recourse in case a builder wants to build apartments.

Sugar Land's zoning is set up to only include a small number of apartments. CDeb, I'm thinking unincorporated Harris County, to the northwest, the north, and the west, would absorb former Gulfton tenants. There is no zoning in unincorporated areas. Sugar Land's zoning prevents large clusters of apartments like you see in Houston and unincorporated Harris County. Even if it gets public transport, I don't see how Sugar Land would change.

The Villas at Vickery, the complex that was torn down to make way for an elementary school and a middle school, had 900 apartment units and commercial properties. In 2004 the owners of the stores said that the landlord cheated them out of rent that they had paid that they were unable to use: http://www.dallasobserver.com/2004-05-13/news/tossed-out/ I do not believe that DISD closed any schools in North Dallas during the years of 2004 and 2005.

As a note, this is exactly what happened in Vickery Meadow, the Dallas version of Gulfton. A few complexes had been bulldozed to make way for schools.

But we still don't know exactly how it crashed. If only they could find the black boxes...

All Weingarten did is chase away good tenants. I just hope that Alamo Drafthouse gets into the former Bookstop.

Marksmu: In many cases the point of driving is to transport your passenger from place to place. You said: "I also think its much safer to talk on the phone than it is to have a passenger in the car...any passenger, any age, any level of driver" That doesn't make any sense. A driver can carry a passenger and still put his or her full concentration on the road. You do have to watch out for whether a discussion with a passenger takes too much of your attention (which is why the State of Texas limits the number of passengers certain teenagers can carry), but that is not something inherent in carrying a passenger. However talking on a cell phone or texting while driving inherently takes attention away from driving. Please do not be overconfident in your own skills. Remember that you need to drive the car, and answering a cell phone will impede your ability to drive a car. If you have a passenger, let him or her answer.

Whenever there's a passenger in the car and my cell phone rings, I make the passenger answer the call. I agree with Redscare. The driver needs to focus on driving the car, just like the pilot of the airplane needs to fly the airplane.

A person I knew told me that finance jobs are high paying, but they are unstable, as the layoffs demonstrated.

How would Goldman Sachs be able to "block" the show? Companies can complain to have copyright violations taken down, but the companies complaining must be the ones who own the copyrights to the said videos.

School districts have these pages too: * FBISD: http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/default.cfm?module=faq&section=rumorwatch * Nocona ISD (no rumors have been submitted, though): http://nocona.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=109597&sessionid=a3064032bea079c177ee08b1daf80d54

This lady deserves the scorn she is going to get from people around the world. Besides, why would illegal immigrants want to go to some random person's house?

Houston ISD already has two miles as a limit (to both neighborhood and magnet schools, according to distance from the student's house to the campus by roads) under most circumstances. We (the people of the Houston area) need to encourage more children and their parents/guardians to walk, or to put more of the burden of transportation on the parents/guardians. EDIT: I must reiterate that I am in favor of magnet school busing over long distances; but I am also in favor of forcing people who live close to school to walk or to take a bicycle. Let's reserve the buses for student commuting long distances and students with disabilities.

Well, we do have one still operating in Louisiana... And I don't think the ACLU has a case if prisoners want to do it.