• City Council Votes To Increase Property Tax Exemptions for Seniors [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Houston Sells Pollution Credits Gained by Upgrading Almeda Sims Sewage Treatment Plant for $5.7 Million — To Broker and Area Chemical Makers Eager To Emit More VOCs, Nitrogen Oxides [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Following Law Change, Saint Arnold Brewery on Lyons Ave. Begins Selling Beer To Tourists [Houston Business Journal]
• Silver A4 Audi-Only Rental Car Company Silvercar Opening Hobby Airport Location Next Month [Houston Business Journal]
• National Trust for Historic Preservation Puts Astrodome on Its ‘Most Endangered’ List [Houston Chronicle]
• Operator of Recovery House in Conroe Trying To Raise Money for Sprinkler, Alarm System, Electrical Upgrades Ordered by Fire Marshall [Courier of Montgomery County]
• Burned Eagle Landing Home in North Harris County Still Steaming Neighbors 1 Year After Fire [Click2Houston]
• Possums and Raccoons Taking Over from Rats and Bees at Abandoned Spring Branch House [My Fox Houston]
• Union Pacific Unveils Billboard Campaign To Shoo People Off Its Train Tracks [KUHF News]
• Pico’s Mex-Mex Will Close Its Bellaire Location After Move to Former Ninfa’s and Maggie Rita’s Spot on Kirby [29-95]

Photo of “pop-up” sculpture by Lee Littlefield, I-10 at 610 West: d.gerhardt via Swamplot Flickr Pool