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Buy the ticket. Take the ride. Urban Planner/AICP. I will travel wherever the cheap airfare blows me. Opinions are my own.

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Joined August 2011
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Rice University plans to break ground on The Arc, a 200K SF, laboratory and office building in Midtown’s Ion District, with an estimated cost of at least $75 million. At 4151 Main St., next to the existing Ion building. Construction slated to begin Nov. 5 and finish in March 2028.
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I mean, the walkable places ordinance means very little if we grant a variance request to a random (in my opinion unnecessary) gas station proposal a block from a train stop
Houston has a Portico Code in the form of our Walkable Places Ordinance. But we need it to be applied lots more places.
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I guess these folks don’t want police or fire or EMS. Or any child in town to be educated. Or libraries. Or roads.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Hi kids.
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WE GOT AN UNREAL TICKET PACK GIVEAWAY FOR TONIGHT'S HOME MATCH 🤩 RT this post for your chance to win 4 lower level tickets, watch warmups pitchside, and receive a signed Archive Kit from the '06 Championship Team! 📃 Official Rules: bit.ly/3Vk1BWC | #BringTheHustle
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Marco Rubio finding out he’s now the general manager of the Houston Astros:
🤖 Made with AI
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In this image provided by the Dunellen, New Jersey Police Department, a police officer is seen disguised as a shrub as part of a crack down on distracted driving in the Middlesex County Borough this week. Police say 74 citations were issued during a six-hour span.
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Iberia sending its World Cup livery A350 to Argentina a few days after the final is a choice. flightradar24.com/IBE5105/40…
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And so the World Cup final will be between two teams who couldn’t beat Cape Verde in 90 minutes.
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Freddy remerges in South Carolina just as a Senate seat opens up.
Hello again. We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip. The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity. I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool. I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy. I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know. I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia. A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia. This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was. And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.
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Wednesday in Atlanta, for all the marbles.
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BREAKING @TheAthleticFC Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development. Story with @Dan_Sheldon_ nytimes.com/athletic/7423410…
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ERCOT projects an all-time July peak demand record today >83 gigawatts. There's over 30 GW of spare capacity *at peak* thanks to Texas' diverse fuel mix incl. 40 GW of solar. Right now, 60% of the generation in Texas is from solar & wind and 9GW worth of batteries are charging.
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Fellow Americans: Who are you cheering for in the Mexico vs. England World Cup match and what is your political preference?
57%Mexico, Democratic
14%Mexico, Republican
19%England, Democratic
10%England, Republican
1,583 votes • Final results
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Auction Result Sold for $12.5M - 7% of its 2014 price. REO Sale: 3000 Post Oak Boulevard Houston, Texas Purchased for $175M in 2014. Appraised at $143.9M in 2020. 433,528 Square Feet 100% Vacant Built 1979 The 19-story building had been the headquarters of Bechtel for four decades with the company occupying 99% of the building. But in 2022, the company downsized, and moved to CityWestPlace, eight miles west of its longtime home. $80M in debt issued by JP Morgan Chase in 2020, then securitized. -rimarketplace #commercialrealestate
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Our current safety culture has some odd priorities.
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