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06/07/2013

Members of the Houston-Galveston Area Council's transportation improvement program subcommittee approved the spending, a month after delaying a decision so staff could study the issue more, especially regarding plans for the buses to use lanes along Loop 610. [...] additional analysis, planners foun...

04/03/2013

The authors are Rice University sociologist Stephen L. Klineberg, principal investigator and co-director of the Kinder Institute, and Jie Wu, research project manager. According to the 2013 report, Houston's population growth in the first 80 years of the 20th century was mainly due to in-migration…

03/25/2013

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03/13/2013

The city of Houston has been selected as one of five winners of Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge, a competition designed to spur innovation in America's cities. Houston won a runner-up prize of $1 million with its proposal "One Bin for All" to allow residents to mix trash, re...

02/28/2013

H-E-B to build new store at San Felipe and Fountainview

02/27/2013

The Manhattan Institute has just released a new report by Joel Kotkin on “America’s Growth Corridors“, which outlines four key corridors that are still growing strongly in an otherwise anemic U.S. economy: the great plains, the Gulf coast, the inter-mountain west, and the manufacturing belt of the s...

01/18/2013

Anyone who drives in Pearland, or commutes to and from the south Houston suburb, knows the community is booming economically. A recent report by the Texas Retail Survey confirms that, for the five-year period between 2006 and 2011, Pearland was the state's fastest growing retail market, with a grow...

01/16/2013

In Los Angeles or New York, you may be able to earn a high salary, but high prices will eat it up. These are the cities with the best balance between wages and cost of living.

01/11/2013

#7.

From art in Rio to wine in China to food in Washington, D.C., here are dozens of reasons to escape and explore this year.

01/08/2013

Interesting read.

For decades Klineberg has studied sociological trends in H-Town, whose Downtown skyline reaches artfully above a circular skybridge.

01/04/2013

The GHP also has identified more than 240 companies planning to relocate, expand or start new operations in Houston. Energy companies, including Dow Chemical, Chevron and ExxonMobil, are building chemical plants in the region. Construction also applies to the housing industry - Houston metro is fo...

12/17/2012

Downtown’s $324 million hotel