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Transit Booty
After several years of overcrowded bus routes, METRO is bringing back long buses to Houston's streets. (KUHF's Gail Delaughter first reported the news.)  At a midyear budget briefing ...
Pix of the Day
Hackers and government may not seem a likely match, but the City of Houston's first annual Open Innovation Hackathon over the weekend drew more than 280 civic-minded computer nerds ...
Pix of the Day
The heat was on this weekend as 12 brave men and women stepped up to the challenge at the Houston Greek Festival: Eat as many gyros as humanly possibly in ...
All is safe
The eighth floor of the Mickey Leland Federal Building in downtown Houston was evacuated Monday afternoon after six workers in the mailroom complained of headaches after examining a suspicious package ...
Tranquility Interrupted
The normally-tranquil grounds of the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa were interrupted this weekend when an undercover officer from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency fired multiple shots at four suspects ...
Secret Oil Spill Cleanup
Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster. She recently returned to Louisiana. This is her ...
Hometown Glory
Once the basic needs of food, water and shelter are out of the way, young families invariably look to public school systems, cost of living and economic growth in determining ...
Super Guppy
A strange piece of Space City history was unlocked this week after a local Reddit user posted an image of one of the oddest aircrafts ever flown this side of ...
Hipster Christian Housewife
In honor of Mother's Day last Sunday, I elected to spend a day with some unusual mothers last week. It was a day of silence, actually, which, again is ...
CultureMap Moment
Each year, the Houston Food Bank finds supportive sponsors in Whole Foods Market, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the arts community for an important annual event — Empty Bowls ...
Surprise Hospital Cuts
While Houston continues to receive national attention for its strong economy and employment numbers, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center announced it will be enacting austerity measures ...
An arson attack?
Authorities have revealed the latest details of the ongoing investigation into what caused a fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month. The April 17th blast ...
Houston Food Bank Benefit
An empty bowl is a bittersweet symbol of scarcity and hope, particularly as an emblem that cradles the motivating force behind one fundraiser that benefits the Houston Food Bank. The ...
Big Business
The new 2013 Fortune 500 is out, and Texas companies — many of them oil and gas-related — took 52 spots on the prestigious ranked-by-revenue list. Twenty five of those were based ...
Texans Have Manners
With all our yes ma'ams and no sirs, we Texans are a well-mannered bunch . . . and now there's statistical data to prove it. According to a new study, the ...
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