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- Baylor College of Medicine’s Empty Hospital To Become an Outpatient Center [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
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- Texas Representative Looks To Halt Insurance Company Desertion After 11,000 Policies Dropped Statewide [Galveston County Daily News]
- Workshop To Discuss New Galveston Noise Ordinance on May 1 [Galveston County Daily News]
- Yoshio Taniguchi’s New Asia Society Texas Center Opens to Visitors This Weekend [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Homebuilding with Houston’s Night-Herons [Houston Chronicle]
- Behind the Scenes at the Bayport Terminal U.S. Customs Office [Houston Business Journal]
- Old Houston Photos Matched Up with Present-Day Views [Hair Balls]
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Photo of Minute Maid Park on opening day: Candace Garcia
Well, if State Farm is picking and choosing (ie: we only want to insure people who will NEVER file a claim) perhaps they should not be allowed to write ANY policies in the state of Texas.
miss_msry,
I don’t know what magic they have that can determine who will “never” file a claim, but the nature of business is to make money and if you can’t make money insuring certain groups in Texas, you don’t insure them. Someone else, who figures out how to make money insuring them, will come along, probably at a much higher price. If you own your own home, then self-insurance can be a perfectly acceptable way to go.
Interesting article about the U.S. Customs. I wonder if they employ full-time biologists or if they just contract out this function whenever they find an invasive.