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Places To Flaunt Your Glock Now That HB 910 Is In Effect
Where you can: Aldi, Kroger, Spec’s (at least some of them), Brook’s Place (where it gets you a discount), Corkscrew BBQ, El Tiempo, Taste of Texas. Where you can’t: Costco, Fiesta, HEB, Phonicia,...
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Good Luck Identifying the 18 Schools Located Near Fertilizer Storage...
The image above, showing a fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate (FGAN) facility loitering as close as 529 ft. from the edge of an unidentified school campus, appeared on slide 13 of a US Chemical Safety...
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Houston Is the Uber Outlier
Houston appears to be the only market in Texas in which Uber is willing to put up with regulations that complicate its business model, writes Madlin Mekelburg in the Texas Tribune — following the...
View ArticleUber and Lyft Pull Out of Austin, Prepare For Capitol
Meanwhile, in Austin: Uber and Lyft ceased operations today after a city proposition to overturn requirements for drivers including fingerprint-based background checks was shot down by voters over the...
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U of H Law Taking On Eminent Domain Class To Prep for Future Area Land Grabs
An upcoming course at the University of Houston Law Center will focus entirely on eminent domain, in the wake of a similar course now wrapping up its inaugural semester at UT Austin. The law firm Johns...
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H-E-B Would Like To Plant a Store in a Wetter Heights Dry Zone
The semi-shrouded Houston Heights Beverage Coalition released a statement today filling in some details on the group’s plan to legalize take-home beer and wine sales in the Heights’ dry zone. The...
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Where the Tickets are Thickest and Other Parking Violation Fun
The above heatmap showing where city parking tickets are most frequently issued is one result of an in-progress project by biology major and urban data enthusiast Jordan Poles. Areas shaded red mark...
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Comment of the Day: Laying Out Strategic Angles on the Next Heights Booze Battle
“. . . Flooding? Really? There are no tracts of land any grocer could realistically acquire that are not already paved over for commercial spots. Nobody is going to open a liquor store in the middle...
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A Brief History of Houston’s Future Historic Preservation Culture
“Houston seems younger than it is,” writes Barry Moore today: “Few would guess that our founding by the Allen Brothers was within a few years of Chicago’s. Why does Chicago seem so much older? The...
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Takeout Beer Sales at Breweries Could Become Legal Under Newly Proposed State...
A pair of bills filed recently in Austin aim to let craft breweries across Teas sell beer at their facilities for “off-premises consumption,” reports Houston Public Media’s Katie Watkins. It’s not so...
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