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Let's translate "limited public participation"

Just remember, if you keep it between $10 and $20 million, Houston's in:
"At first blush, I am pleased with the response to our RFQ, but we have a lot of due diligence to do before we ar ...

Chron scrutinizes bogus Dome demolition numbers; Bureaucrats start to back away from same

Experts say Astrodome demolition price tag seems high - Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle
Willie Loston, executive director of the Sports Corp., said the estimated cost of [Astrodome] demolition ...

SLOW blogging ahead for a while...

We're putting the blog in official slowdown mode for a little while.
There's nothing "bad" going on. But we've been doing the blog pretty much continuously for quite a few years now ...

North Forest ISD will stay open for another year

Students hardest hit:
the Texas Education Commissioner said North Forest is being given another year to try to improve its status.
Because after years of promising to improve (and faili ...

An expensive repository of crumpled Astroturf and trash

A Swamplot reader recently took a detour while at the Rodeo and ventured into the Astrodome. Follow the link to see the pics.

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