- The Texas House Select Committee on Hurricane Ike has released its findings. Underground power lines, more stringent building codes and beefing up the rainy day fund top the list.
- Meanwhile, the Attorney General confirmed that price gouging occurred during Ike
- Galveston authorities have officially ended the search for folks missing since Hurricane Ike
- Public utilities companies are still worrying about Ike and are in risk management mode. Tree trimming crews flooded South Braeswood neighborhoods this morning to clear overgrowth from power lines.
- The political rumor mill says that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee may end up working in the State Department causing state politicos to eyeball a potential vacancy in the 18th Congressional district
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is 100 years old this year and is honoring two Houston centenarians for their civil rights work
- The top dog is coming home to Houston. Stump, a Sussex spaniel, was named Best in show at the Westminster Dog Show - the Olympics of the dog showing world - on Tuesday night.
- Businesses continue to go broke, but the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau is rich with $27.4 million in revenue booked and 28,000 attendees slated to hit town during March
- A Missouri City fourth-grader died yesterday after collapsing at school
- Texas is set to execute Johnny Ray Johnson tonight. He will be the eighth execution of 2009 - the second execution this week.
- The Rockets beat the Kings. WOO HOO!
- Jeff Rosenberg paid $64,073 for a baseball card from the non-steroid era - the 1860s
- Miguel Tejada got six months probabtion for withholding evidence from the Feds during the Congressional probe into drug use in Major League Baseball. He also admitted buying HGH but not using it.
- Roy O. let it be known that he's no fan of performance enhancing drug users. We can't help but wonder about how the dynamics inside the Astros club house will be once Spring Training is fully underway.
- Today's weather: Chilly this morning, but clear and dry throughout the day. High: 72. Low: 54.
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