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According to proposals on the table at the Texas Department of Transportation, the highway system around Downtown Houston may be subject to a significant transformation. This well may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the city to reconnect neighborhoods long bifurcated by highway IH-45 while also improving traffic capacity of the highways. How to change and improve the highway system is of great debate. As the Department of Transportation follows through on its federally required processes to propose and examine alternatives to the expansion of IH-45, also called the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, itÂ’s winnowing the options quickly. Now is...

As the crisis in New Orleans ebbs and civil order is restored we can begin to question the causes and assign blame. A considered look shows it to squarely rest on the shoulders of two men. Two men, not monsters or malevolent creatures from some alien planet. Just two men who have wives and children. Two men who love their pets and have neat lawns. Their names are John F. Kerry and Edward (Ted) Kennedy. They are senators from the state of Massachusettes. Rather than use their considerable influence to get the needed tax dollars to strenghten to a Cat...