Houston Strategies

Summer 3Q11 Highlights

It's time for the Summer 3Q11 quarterly highlights post (and let's all take a moment of thanks that the hottest Houston summer on record is over!). These posts have been chosen with a particular focus on significant ideas I'd like to see kept alive for discussion and action, and they're mainly targeted at new readers who want to get caught up with a quick overview of the Houston Strategies landscape. I also like to track what I think of as "reference posts" that sum up a particular topic or argument; and, last but not least, they've also been invaluable for me to track down some of my best thinking for meetings or when requested by others (as is the ever-helpful Google search).  They're not quite as useful as they were when I was still doing multiple posts each week, but still have some value (at least for me).

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September

• What makes Houston Houston?
• Major Texas Metro Areas Are Confirming Failures in Rail Transit
• Houston housing model attracting worldwide attention

August

• Job generating ideas for Mayor Parker (inc. better commuter transit)

July

• Attracting national and global tourists to Houston (Engi and Tech Museum, STEM for kids, Astrodome)

And from Spring 2Q11:

June

• Houston getting our own "Energy SXSW" mega-conference
• Fixing Metrolift

May

• The high-tech future of K-12 education

April

• Megabus undermines high-speed rail
• The upside of not getting a space shuttle

And from Winter 1Q11:

March

• Arguments building against high-speed rail plan

February

• The real answer to Houston's traffic congestion

January

• Fast metro growth predicts lower incomes, and why that's a good thing

And don't forget the highlights from the first few years. For what it's worth, I think the best ideas are found there, often in the first year (I had a lot "stored up" before I started blogging) and most definitely in the 5th birthday retrospective.

• 2010 Highlights here
• 5th birthday best-of-the-best retrospective (March 2010)
• 2009 Highlights here
• 2008 Highlights here
• 2007 Highlights here
• 2006 Highlights here
• 2005 Highlights here

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posted by Tory Gattis @ 7:39 PM