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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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• Can Houston avoid LA's mobility disaster?
• Sprawl Is Good - The Environmental Case for Suburbia
• How to Fix American Capitalism
• With low ridership, should Metro's huge excess cash pile go to flood control?
• The death of Texas high-speed rail
• New book: Houston as the bold case against zoning
• Comparing the inflating costs of Houston highways vs. transit
• Metro needs to rethink the University Line
• Spiraling admin costs + strong toll revenue recovery at HCTRA (part 1 of 2)
• The Shocking Cost for All-electronic Tolling at HCTRA (part 2 of 2)
• Countering the “Freeway Fighters”
• Should METRO reconsider eliminating transit fares? (again)

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 best posts from the first 15 years and 1.5 million pageviews.

• The best posts from the first 15 years and 1.5 million pageviews
• 2021 Highlights
• 2020 Highlights
• 2019 Highlights
• 2018 Highlights
• 2017 Highlights
• The best posts from the first dozen years and million pageviews
• 2016 Highlights
• 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