Houston Strategies

November highlights

Time again for the monthly ritual. Near the first of every month, I'll be adding a post highlighting key posts from the previous month(s), with a particular focus on significant ideas I'd like to see kept alive for discussion and action. The main page will only show about a month's worth of entries, and I know most new readers won't go back into the monthly archives linked at the bottom of the right-side column, so here are the highlights:

November:

• WSJ op-ed on Texas schools (competition debate, inc. some good stuff in the comments)
  
• Sprawl seems to be coded in our psyche
• Tracking cell phones for traffic reports
• The graffiti solution
• Commuter rail is the wrong ride
• The dynamics of downtown Houston
  
• Trading public employee raises for productivity improvements
  

October:

• New Census numbers on daytime population (and what Houston's numbers indicate)
  
• Houston's focal point?
• Houston, meet your older brother Chicago
  
• The good news on property tax reform failure in Texas
  
• The Creative Class as saviors of old cities
  
• The Virtues of Sprawl
  

September: A month dominated by posts on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, so not many long-term "keepers".

• Envision Houston, part 3 and part 4 - The Four Basic Development Models and Mixing them Houston
• The importance of keeping jobs in the core

August:

• Sprawl and the benefits of frontage roads
• Houston political leanings: conservative or balanced?
• Annexation and city-county consolidation
• Unity vs. fragmentation in metro areas

Highlights from previous months can be found here.

As always, thanks for your interest in Houston Strategies.

posted by Tory Gattis @ 7:08 PM