- Crews Cleaning Up ‘Sticky, Gooey, Thick, Tarry Stuff’ After Barge Carrying Nearly 1 Million Gallons of Oil Springs a Leak in Galveston Bay [KHOU]
- Spill at Peak of Birding Season Comes at ‘Worst Time’ for Wildlife [Houston Chronicle]
- Cypress Real Estate Advisors Sells Off Last 3 Pieces of Westcreek Complex, ‘Prime Tract’ Near the Galleria [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
- Former Sugar Land Unocal Building Adds New Tenants, $17M in Upgrades [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- How the Astrodome Reached Its Current Limbo [Dallas Morning News]
- Metro Sets Second New Ridership Record with 76,925 Taking Rail on March 19 During Rodeo [The Highwayman]
- In One-Bin Recycling Concept, Residents Could Be Asked To Separate Their Food Waste [Texas Tribune]
- Contractor Tells Alvin Nursing Home He’d Refund Half for Unfinished Job, But Only If the Media Drop the Story [KHOU]
- An Increase in Walkability Takes Hold in Cities Across Texas [Texas Tribune]
- $1 Million Would Buy You More Square Footage in Houston Than in 31 Other U.S. Cities [Business Insider]
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I wonder if the costs of spill cleanup and of closing the Ship Channel to commerce will exceed the costs of the dredging which has been delayed because of budget problems. I suspect that the dredging is cheaper. There was an article just a few weeks ago saying that there was so much ship traffic and it was just a matter of time in these narrow channels before there was a collision. I guess we didn’t have to wait long.
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This seems to be the new normal in this country: a collapsing interstate bridge here, a collision in an under-maintained port there, and look, now we’re entering a New Cold War with Russia yet we’re dependent on them to reach outer space. Voters like being lied to so much that we’re now in a position that we can’t cut SS benefits by 2-3% or increase FICA by 1%, so let’s just let infrastructure and space program crumble instead!