Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Road work ramps up as a city shuts down

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There could be a (small) silver lining to Houston's Coronavirus-related economic hiatus: A lighter load on Houston-area freeways and ...

Restaurants will bear the brunt of this crisis

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As bad as this Coronavirus crisis is going to get (and it's going to get really , really bad ), it is going to be especially devastatin...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Love (and Marriage) in the Time of Coronavirus

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Yesterday was supposed to have been the Big Day for Corinne and me. It was supposed to be the day our friends and family came to New Orleans...
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No-so-good monarch news

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Just in case things aren't depressing enough right now: The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grou...

Local football musings: Roughnecks season cut short, Bill O'Brien is an idiot

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A couple of weeks ago the reformulated XFL followed the lead of other sports leagues in the face of the Coronavirus crisis and shut things d...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

2020 Houston Cougar football schedule released

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The 2020 campaign will look like this :      Thu Sep 03     Rice      Sat Sep 12      at Washington State      Sat Sep 19      at Memphi...

UH medical school receives accreditation

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I've been following this saga for the past thirteen years (see here , here , here , and here ), so I'm pleased to report that it has...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Deadbeat student discovers that actions have consequences

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I didn't even know "parking barnacles" were a thing until I saw this story : A University of Houston student’s tweet express...

Fare-free public transportation is still a bad idea

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If public transportation is, as its name implies, a public good, and if farebox revenues typically cover only a small amount of a typical tr...
Friday, January 17, 2020

It's tough being a Houston sports fan

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Well, I said I was unlikely to post again until after the wedding, but then last Sunday and Monday Houston had to go and have the worst 48 h...