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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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2025 marks 20 years of Houston Strategies! As always, thanks for your readership.

• HCTRA Part 1: from model agency to delay, divert and do nearly nothing
• HCTRA Part 2: spiraling debt and outrageous costs
• The Best Plan for Housing Is to Plan Less - NYT
• METRO+DART Ridership Update: summer slump and Beryl erase spring gains
• Mobility is more important than density
• Chicago's dire warning for Houston
• Does the Gulfton BRT extension make any sense?
• METRO BRT: 'The most colossal waste of taxpayers’ money in the history of the City'
• Metro 2023 Annual Report: stats improve, but $13.93 boarding subsidy remains excessively high
• A more reliable Texas electricity grid at a lower cost
• The Benefits of Congestion Relief
• Houston as an affordability model for other cities
• The social and political ramifications of unaffordable housing
• Texas high-speed rail update

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
• 2023 Highlights
• 2022 Highlights
• 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
• 2007 Highlights
• 2005 Highlights