As reported by The New York Times, Maersk, over the past two years, has dramatically reduced both its costs and its carbon footprint, without employing new technologies or shrinking its work force or resorting to any other drastic measures
Illegal immigrants have become crucially important to Galveston's future in the eyes of city officials because of Hurricane Ike.
The island lost as much as 20 percent of its estimated population of 57,000 after the storm, which could pose a serious problem because state and federal money is doled out on the basis of population.
The 2010 census is looming, and every head on the island, legal or illegal, will count.
Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier confirms that chief business officer, Dick Lindsay, resigned Friday. Grier, who accepted the resignation, would not comment on details.
The voter frustration with the democrat party nationally has not escaped the attention of Texans. Mayor White is another in a long line of dream team mirages that the net roots of the left have fabricated. In this political environment no competitive state will elect a big city trial lawyer, anti gun, sanctuary city promoting, Clinton protégé DC politician, let alone a conservative state like Texas.
While Mayor White has yet to been defined, it is inarguable the Texas voters have been exposed to well over $100 million in negative attack ads against Rick Perry. The voters of Texas know Rick Perry, warts and all, and he still leads Mayor White by double digits in most public polls.
A Houston Chronicle analysis of congressional campaign contributions in the 2010 election season found that Texans are shipping millions of dollars to out-of-state candidates this year, and most of the recipients are Democrats.Dunham's story goes on to speculate that much of the state's Democratic money crosses state lines is due to the Dem's minority status in Texas and the donors desire to back a winner.
Eight of the top 10 non-Texas recipients of Lone Star State political money are Democrats. Overall, Democrats are receiving about 60 percent of the $6,823,766 in Texas money headed to Senate and House candidates in other states, according to Federal Election Commission filings through Feb. 10.
Houston, the top political exporter, sends about two-thirds of its campaign cash to Democrats.
President Barack Obama's much-anticipated health care summit was clarifying. Nearly seven hours of talk on Thursday made plain that the divide between Democrats and Republicans is wide and likely unbridgeable.
But the summit also made this much clear: Most Americans believe that health care reform is needed. We would argue that gives Obama and the Democrats a clear mandate to move forward on their own.
The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority board is scheduled on Monday to discuss becoming the landlord for a professional soccer stadium in Houston's East End.
Houston and Harris County officials have been negotiating the county's participation in a stadium on 12 acres of city-owned land just east of U.S. 59. Former Houston Mayor Bill White pitched a deal 20 months ago, asking the county to match the city's $10 million pledge to provide infrastructure for a $60 million stadium the Dynamo.
The Authority's involvement does not signal that a deal is imminent, officials said.
"The point is NOT that Democratic Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Bill White appointed the majority of the Houston Metro board, it's the CURRENT Houston Mayor (and Democrat) Annise Parker is cleaning it up."
Miles' proven business acumen and leadership abilities make him the better-qualified candidate of the two.What proven business acumen and leadership abilities are ChronBlog's Faulty Bullhorn referring to?
Amid the ongoing — and occasionally tense — debate over how to clean up California's budget mess, lawmakers have taken time out to tidy something else almost as unmanageable: our language. This morning, the Assembly approved a ceremonial resolution turning the first week of March into "Cuss Free Week."
"While Congresswoman Jackson Lee is on the floor of the U.S. Congress fighting for jobs and health care
The Chron, of course, lets just about anyone with access to a keyboard put up a blog that gets featured on the home page. This can result in hilarity like the utterly blinders-on right-wing Tea Party political "analysis" by "Texas Sparkle"; in sports it can result in great blogs (i.e, Texans Chick), or cliche-ridden pointlessness like "On Further Review."
Whenever the wily, old legislative veteran rambled on about something, Miles, a frown on his face, either drummed his fingers on the table or backed away from the table in exasperation. Watching his body language, I was waiting for him to tell Edwards exactly how he felt -- and then seal it with a kiss on the cheek.
For the first time in Sealy history, an election ended in a tie. The winner will be decided at 6 this evening by a roll of the dice in council chambers.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority is investigating whether documents shredded by one of its lawyers were among those sought in an open records request for travel records and e-mail correspondence of senior Metro executives.After all we already have Frank Wilson assuring us it was an "innocent mistake". I'm surprised he didn't remind us that Metro operates in a completely transparent manner.
According to Deborah Hoffman from Corridor Rescue, two criminals were apprehended this past weekend after tossing a dog out of a van by his legs. Fortunately there were two separate witnesses - Corridor Rescue volunteers – who went from volunteers to heroes as the scene unfolded.While all of this was going on the wife and I were at the PetCo setting up for an adoption event. Suddenly Deborah's phone started ringing like crazy and the chase was on.
One actually followed the van (and called Hoffman who in turn called the Houston Police Department). The men in the van were arrested, charged with animal abandonment, and are now in jail.
Nine people in Tarrant County live communally in a 539,000-square foot cinderblock compound owned by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration, if their voter registrations are to be believed.
It is the DEA's presence at Alliance Airport at 2300 Horizon Drive and it is most certainly not a residence.
Still, at least three of the nine, who registered to vote in a period between February 2002 and August of last year, cast ballots in 2008 despite the fact that property listings suggest they live in other parts and precincts of Tarrant and, in one case, neighboring Denton County.
More than one out of every four Travis County residents who voted in the Republican primary during the first week of early voting this year also voted in the 2008 Democratic primary, according to some very interesting figures from Jeff Smith of Opinion Analysts Inc.
Almost 28 percent of the votes cast in the first week of the GOP primary came from those who took part in the 2008 primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
We should remember that John McCain pretty much had the Republican nomination locked up at that point. So these aren’t necessarily Democrats. But if nothing else, they are Republican voters who have shown something of an independent streak. There may be a few Republican stalwarts who voted in the 2008 Democratic primary because they were trying to gum up the works, but numerous experts have said that happens pretty rarely.
As many as a tenth of the Texans voting in the Democratic contests could be Republicans, and overwhelmingly they favor Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, the polls show.
(Image snipped because I know it's going to "go away" without explanation. You click at your own risk.)Debra Medina’s strong standing in Public Policy Polling’s last survey of the Texas Republican primary for Governor has faded and the race once again looks like it will come down to incumbent Rick Perry and challenger Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Perry leads with 40% to 31% for Hutchison and 20% for Medina, suggesting that a runoff is likely unless the Governor picks off most of the remaining undecideds.
Social conservative leader James Dobson endorsed Texas Gov. for reelection Monday, eight days before Texas's gubernatorial primary.
In a statement, the Focus on the Family founder praised Perry for his “record that is consistently pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious liberty.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33348.html#ixzz0gNO5WHlt
It's a sweet job, being a Harris County commissioner. Your ginormous precinct is your fiefdom, and it comes with an equally ginormous budget.
The attorney who filed a lawsuit against the state for storing infants' blood samples without consent is demanding that Texas recover hundreds of baby blood spots turned over to a military lab to build a national — and someday international — mitochondrial DNA database.So is "your DNA is on file" the 21st Century equivalent of "Show me your papers?"
Eighty-six percent of the 1,023 Americans surveyed nationwide said that the government is “broken” compared to only 14 percent who said it is not.
However, only 5 percent of the 86 percent who think government is “broken” believe that it “cannot be fixed.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33280.html#ixzz0gHwlAnxe
There are six more names, mostly concentrating their agendas on issues of workers' rights and rebuilding Texas' shattered manufacturing base.
Radack's crew is putting the finishing touches on a $2.3 million soapbox derby park.
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It started out as a $300,000 idea early in the decade. But the vision expanded to include a hillside amphitheater, and cost overruns added more to the bill.
Harris County will have to spend about $53 million less in the coming year because declining property values are projected to shrink its tax collections, according to a preliminary budget report released Friday.
During hearings last month, department heads said worst-case scenarios could mean layoffs, less mosquito spraying, tax office closures and fewer resources to serve a still-growing county population.
Continental Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek said the liberal, street-savvy Democrat “has been a tireless advocate” for the needs of his Houston-headquartered carrier, including becoming “personally involved” in getting President Barack Obama's administration to focus on Continental's bid to join the 26-carrier Star Alliance.
Challenges of historic import threaten America’s future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Rep. Ron Paul won the most support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in an unofficial straw poll of conservative activists attending an annual conference.
A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday contest at the Conservative Political Action Conference with 31 percent backing.
More than 100 followers of the Dynamo Supporters’ Alliance gathered on Saturday at the intersection of Capitol and Bastrop to support a downtown site for a Major League Soccer stadium.
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