• Repairs to Hurricane Ike-Damaged Galveston Elementary School Almost Complete [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Gratifi Holding Grand Reopening Tonight After ‘Restaurant Impossible’ Two-Day Makeover [Eating Our Words]
• Marfreless Reopening in River Oaks Shopping Center Tomorrow After Makeover [Rocks Off; previously on Swamplot]
• A Look Inside Midtown’s Just Opened Cook & Collins [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Engineer Warns Houston’s Freeway Congestion Could Spread To Neighborhood Streets, Recommends Commuter Rail from the Suburbs [KUHF]
• Widening of U.S. 290 Will Close Pinemont Park and Ride Location This Friday [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Conservancy Opposes Proposed Texas 36A Route That Would Cut Path Through Katy Prairie [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Montrose Residents Petitioning City To Designate Drew Street as Residential Parking Only After 9 pm [abc13]
• Houston Makes the Top 10 on Another U.S. Moving Destination List, Behind Dallas-Fort Worth [Houston Business Journal]
• James Glassman’s ‘Come and Take It’ Astrodome Shirt, and Other Houstorian Designs [Culturemap]

Photo of house behind Washington Ave: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool