Houston Strategies

An open dialogue on serious strategies for making Houston a better city, as well as a coalition-builder to make them happen. All comments, email, and support welcome.

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Nov 19
Five steps to save the Obama presidency : I usually try to avoid politics on this blog, but this Forbes op-ed from Joel Kotkin on saving the Obama presidency not only resonated with me, but also touches on some of the subjects I coverhere....
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Nov 16
Houston=Brooklyn? plus rankings, not-so-smart growth, anti-poverty incentives, mixed-use difficulties : Clearing out some smaller items:In case you missed it, Randal O'Toole had a must-read Sunday Chronicle op-ed on how smart growth would not save Houston from future Ashby high-rises, and in fact would...
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Nov 12
The essence and future of TX vs. CA : I know there have been a lot of articles and references to Texas vs....
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Nov 9
Planes vs. high-speed vs. 'higher-speed' rail in Texas : This story on the Eurostar London-Paris high-speed rail caught my eye yesterday in the Chronicle Travel section. I have ridden it before, and it is a wonderful service....
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Nov 5
Texas schools are better than you think (but still have a long way to go) : For a while I've been wanting to do a post on this McKinsey report titled "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools" (main report, supporting charts).First, the (very) bad news:...
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Nov 2
Voting, Houston's greatness, top ranking, and more : Continuing from last week: originally, my plan was to break up the smaller misc items into two posts of five items each, but then three new items came up over the weekend, so you get eight in this one...
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Oct 29
Toll plans, TMC problems, empty nesters, Ashby regs : Yet again I've let the backlog of smaller items get too large, so I'm going to have to break them up into a couple of posts.If you missed it, here's my reaction over at my Chronicle Opportunity Urbani...
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Oct 27
Rice's chairman on Houston and its challenges : Jim Crownover, former McKinsey director and current chairman of the board at Rice University, spoke at event last week and made some interesting comments on Houston....
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