July 23, 2008
Morning Roundup
- As Hurricane Dolly heads for Texas, Galveston is preparing for high tides while Houston gets ready for slightly cooler weather
- Speaking of Dolly: This is the third most active July in history in terms of hurricanes
- Sunmart, a The Woodlands-based gas station chain, has been short-changing customers at the pump, a state official says
- Two men robbed two convenience stores within 25 minutes in April, police said yesterday; officers are still searching for them
- The Harris County Sheriff's Office will pay deputies overtime for covering vacancies in its patrol division
- Neighbors rescued six children from a burning home in southwest Houston on Tuesday morning
- An airplane carrying seven members of Congress from Texas, including Ron Paul, made an emergency landing in New Orleans yesterday after losing cabin pressure
- Traffic on Harris County toll roads is down 2 to 3 percent from last year, officials say, likely the result of rising gas prices
- If you're interested, you can vote on which crappy architectural style you'd like to see in a condo development planned for the Bistro Vino site
- Cars swerving to avoid debris on the Gulf Freeway ended up killing a TxDOT worker yesterday
- T. Boone Pickens: We need to build more wind farms to reduce our dependence on foreign oil
- HEB has recalled fresh jalapeños, fresh pico and items containing raw jalapeños following an FDA salmonella warning
- Harris County commissioners awarded a $973K contract to Enterprise Rent-a-Car on Tuesday — even though the county is suing Enterprise over $2 million in unpaid fees, tolls and fines
- A Galveston homeless man's claim that a pile of concrete collapsed on three of his friends was a false alarm, investigators found
- Today's weather: Hello, Dolly! There's a strong chance of rain for the next couple of days, with highs around 90 and lows in the upper 70s; things should return to summer normal by the end of the week
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We need more politicians and public figures with names like "T. Boone Pickens." Remember Erastus "Deaf" Smith? And W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel? And Miriam "Ma" Ferguson? And Ima Hogg? Great names. I'm just sayin'...
Also? Interesting article on the jalapeno "crisis" here:
http://consumerist.com/5027810/health-officials-we-finally-found-salmonella-in-a-jalapeo