Daily Archives: February 15, 2009

RIP, Terry Hayes

Terry Hayes, an employee of the Houston Chronicle who wrote an award-winning blog that detailed her fight against terminal cancer, has died at the age of 42. Hayes spent five years as one of the newspaper’s essential support staffers, handling … Continue reading

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RIP, Terry Hayes

Terry Hayes, an employee of the Houston Chronicle who wrote an award-winning blog that detailed her fight against terminal cancer, has died at the age of 42. Hayes spent five years as one of the newspaper’s essential support staffers, handling … Continue reading Continue reading

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Weekend link dump for February 15

Just a few links to chew on while you’re polishing off that Valentine’s Day box of chocolates… Road-kill cleanup not all glamour for Comal’s ‘Undertaker’. Quick, get Mike Rowe on the phone. And I guess those aren’t such good links … Continue reading Continue reading

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Weekend link dump for February 15

Just a few links to chew on while you’re polishing off that Valentine’s Day box of chocolates… Road-kill cleanup not all glamour for Comal’s ‘Undertaker’. Quick, get Mike Rowe on the phone. And I guess those aren’t such good links … Continue reading

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Apparently, the sky really is falling

See here and here. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to duck and cover. Let us all hope that this isn’t a prelude to this: Look to the sky!

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Apparently, the sky really is falling

See here and here. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to duck and cover. Let us all hope that this isn’t a prelude to this: Look to the sky! Continue reading

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Multiways

Andrew continues the ongoing discussion of transit options in Houston with a look at multiway boulevards. Basically, a multiway is an urban thoroughfare combining express through lanes in the middle with local access lanes on the sides. These local lanes … Continue reading

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Multiways

Andrew continues the ongoing discussion of transit options in Houston with a look at multiway boulevards. Basically, a multiway is an urban thoroughfare combining express through lanes in the middle with local access lanes on the sides. These local lanes … Continue reading Continue reading

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A peek inside Astrodome Studios

So we know that one of the ideas for what to do with the Astrodome is to convert it to a movie studio. But what might that look like? Swamplot has a sneak peek. We may be hearing more about … Continue reading

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A peek inside Astrodome Studios

So we know that one of the ideas for what to do with the Astrodome is to convert it to a movie studio. But what might that look like? Swamplot has a sneak peek. We may be hearing more about … Continue reading Continue reading

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Movie night of the future

So I was reading this FireDogLake post that used the movie “The Wizard of Oz” as a metaphor for the changing of the guard in Washington, DC, and it got me to thinking about how I can’t wait till my … Continue reading

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Movie night of the future

So I was reading this FireDogLake post that used the movie “The Wizard of Oz” as a metaphor for the changing of the guard in Washington, DC, and it got me to thinking about how I can’t wait till my … Continue reading Continue reading

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