- Houston Home Sales Rise for 10th Straight Month [Houston Chronicle]
- Late Nite Pie Owner Charged with Arson [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- Slideshow: First Look Inside Galveston’s Pleasure Pier [Houston Business Journal]
- Marine Arts Group Receives $3.46M To Buy 364-Plus Acres of Galveston Island Land [Galveston County Daily News; previously on Swamplot]
- Federal Funds for Project Brays Slow to a Trickle [Bellaire Examiner]
- Clear Lake Water Authority Taxpayers Will Be Exempt from Houston Drainage Fee [Bay Area Citizen]
- Texas Ave. Lane Closures Through Next Week for Metro Rail Construction [Newswatch]
- Missouri City Signs Off on Contract for Improvements to Lexington Blvd. [Houston Chronicle]
- Hwy. 105 South Bypass Opening Slated for Early June [Cleveland Advocate]
- Landmark Steam Hammers from Galveston’s Cotton History Demolished [Galveston County Daily News]
- Space Shuttle Mockup Leaves Houston [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- New Study Likely To Challenge $78M Price Tag To Demolish Astrodome [Ultimate Astros]
- Tailgating at Dynamo Stadium First Come, First Served [The Paper Magazine]
Photo of Hwy. 105 south bypass: Jason Fochtman/Cleveland Advocate
So, if I am tailgating at Dynamo Stadium and have some leftover food, will I be fined if I give it to a homeless person?
No big whoop about the feds pulling back the purse strings on Project Brays – the amazing miraculous storm water “fee” is already making flooding disappear forever!
No Robert, you’d have to be distributing to a line of people on private property where you did not receive the landowner’s consent (trespassing) and had the intent to distribute ahead of time.
Superdave, the federal govt has no business or legal standing to fund local projects, although, thanks to Shiela J. Lee, we now have federal undercover cops looking for and searching “suspicious” people on Metro vehicles. There are always funds for the domestic police state/military.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-to-search-bags-question-passengers-on-houston-buses.html
Great news for the folks at Artist Boat. Having a sanctuary in Galveston will be a great opportunity for that organization to expand the great educational work they do. Very nice to see them get permanent digs for their organization.
@Superdave @Dana-X
The government might have no business funding local projects – and people can certainly argue about the constitutionality of it – but since 1928, the federal government has provided money to localities affected by natural disasters. In this sense, it would make more sense to fund a little prevention instead of a lot of cure, as the saying goes.
That said, I hope the current scarcity of funds focuses these people to only spend on the the highest value items to prevent flooding. More detention ponds and fewer bike trails (even though I personally would love to have more trails).
And now we have the rest of the story on Late Night Pie.
@Dana-X: We will be living in Soviet Bloc style housing and navigating through government checkpoints on our way to the bread line for rations during our lifetime.