• Slowing Local Job Growth Weighs on Commercial Real Estate Market [KUHF]
• Map: Residents Who Lived Farther from the Astrodome Were More Likely to Vote It Down [Houston Politics; story ($)]
• Owners of House of Pies on Kirby Still Hoping To Reopen Before Thanksgiving, with an ‘Updated Look’ [KHOU]
• Houston Commuters Spend on Average 52 Hours Stuck in Traffic Per Year, Finds Texas A&M Report [Culturemap]
• New Fiesta Mart Opens Today on Conroe’s East Side [Courier of Montgomery County]
• In the Van for the Art Guys’ ‘Utterly Pointless’ Loop 610 Spin [The Great God Pan Is Dead; previously on Swamplot]
• Number of Houston Visitors Increased 5 Percent Between 2010 and 2012, Finds TNS [Houston Business Journal]
• Painted Cow Sculpture Stolen from Heights-Area Business OurBlok [abc13]

Photo of Downtown from Westheimer at 610: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool