2016 Highlights

Time for the annual hike down memory lane for 2016, wrapping up the 12th (!) year of this blog (official anniversary coming up in March). Looking it over, I feel like we've got a particularly strong set of highlight posts this year. 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).

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• How to fix Houston traffic? Let's talk MaX Lanes. (op-ed answering Mayor Turner's call to re-imagine Houston's transportation future)
• An oil tax that would draw Republican support and re-energize Houston (anybody know how to get this to the right people in the Trump administration?...)
• A compelling alternative to the I45 redevelopment plan thru downtown, and Defending the Pierce Elevated and other thoughts on TXDoT's plans, and Building to the Grand Finale - An updated analysis of the 45N rebuild
• Elements of an Opportunity City
• Should Houston have its own version of the Sydney Bridge Climb?
• Houston's changes, challenges, opportunities, and identity

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 10th birthday retrospective and the best of the first 1,000.

• 2015 Highlights
• Ten years of Houston Strategies retrospective (March 2015)
• 2014 Highlights
• Best posts of the first 1,000 (February 2014)
• 2013 Highlights
• 5th birthday best-of-the-best retrospective (March 2010, updated thru 2012)
• 2012 Highlights
• 2011 Highlights
• 2010 Highlights
• 2009 Highlights
• 2008 Highlights
• 2007 Highlights
• 2006 Highlights
• 2005 Highlights