- Downtown’s Hotel Alden Sold to American Liberty Hospitality; Name Change Considered [Culturemap]
- Cinco Ranch Apartments Under Construction at Mason Rd., Westpark Tollway [Covering Katy]
- Pasadena Bus Service To Continue Through October While Future is Mulled [Houston Chronicle]
- When Will the ‘Functionally Obsolete’ Yale St. Bridge Close for Rebuilding? [The Leader News]
- FEMA Awards $1.4M To Repair Ike Damage to Galveston’s Historic Tall Ship Elissa [Houston Business Journal]
- Houston To Upgrade City-Owned Fleet Vehicles Through Partnership with Zipcar [Hairballs]
- How To Spot Illegal Grow Houses [KUHF]
- New Website Spells Out Where Your Property, Sales Tax Dollars Go for All 254 Texas Counties [KUHF]
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Photo of St. Joseph Professional Building, Crawford and I-45: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Wait a minute, the Vietnamese organized crime ring had $6 million in “assets,” but they were too cheap to pay for their own electricity?
Awesome reporting by the Leader! :-)
Jefe, not too cheap, using too much “metered” electricity on a house of a given size is a dead giveaway that it’s a grow house. Power companies’ computers will red flag it. They even started monitoring “average use per house” behind certain transformers to catch people bypassing their own meters. I hear the new new Smart Meters even have a bypass feature that can detect if there’s too much juice flowing “behind” it.
More clever solutions for a problem that shouldn’t exist.
It’s not like eliminating this grow house had a measurable effect on pot availability. Just give up already.
worthless efforts for sure, but it does give the departments involved a better record and thus good justification for keepiung their bloated budgets in tact.
we should thank these dealers for keeping federal money flowing into houston.
Best place for a growhouse: All bills paid apt complex. Can’t meter your unit. Pay ~$500-$600/month and grow away.
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Just sayin’
Cody, I’m sure you’re joking with that, but be careful if you’re not – asset forfeitures can go on under some pretty flimsy justifications: Motel Owners in MA
It sounds like the best hope for the Battleship Texas is to get damaged by a hurricane.
If you’re growing properly, the smell would be to much for an apartment complex.
maybe turn Battleship Texas into a “grow ship”
that’s what I’m sayin!!
The ‘Dome. Hydroponic medical dope.