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Good morning, Houston. If you've ever dreamed of designing a neighborhood marker, now's your chance: The Sixth Ward Property Owners group is looking for someone to come up with a sign to mark the historic area. "Right now we have markers in the neighborhood and they're in bad shape," Maria Isabel of the SWPO said. "It would be great to redo those." The design specs seem pretty open — the location and materials are...

In October of last year the (Silver Dollar) Jim West mansion was sold to Olajuwon Farms (the bucolic name of Hakeem's land management company). After sifting through archives, though, Linda Sansing, a teacher in Clear Creek ISD and co-founder of Preserved in Time (a nonprofit to help raise awareness of the West mansion), found a deed restriction that may prevent any tampering with the mansion until July of 2012. The Greater Houston Preservation Alliance's David...

So hey, did you hear about the rain yesterday? If the rain and thunder overnight didn't wake you up and you had electricity while you were getting ready for work, surely you got caught in the morning rush hour from hell. It was all the fault of a warm front that moved ashore from the Gulf, resulting in more than 10 inches of rain in some parts of town — and that left us with...

Wow, it sure rained a lot overnight. We mean a lot — more than seven inches fell downtown, more than six in southern Brazoria County, just as much in east Harris County and part of Liberty County. The good news is that most of the heavy rain has moved north of the Beltway, but the bad news is that it's now sitting over Katy, northwest Harris County, Montgomery County, Bryan-College Station, Huntsville ... yeah, you...

Along with the requisite Facebook account, MySpace page (poor, misguided children) that have become must-have accessories for highschool-aged kids, more and more students won't start their fall without a visit to one of a host of websites that allow them to grade their teachers. Sites like ratemyteachers.com, the biggest example of the genre, allow students at high schools (including local Clear Creek and Clear Lake highs, were the site is in widespread use) to rate...

This afternoon, HISD trustees will vote on a proposal to increase property taxes by 4 cents, determining which way the district will fall in a statewide debate over tax hikes. The proposed tax increase would bring HISD an extra $43.5 million, including $12 million from the state, which would be used for teacher pay raises, classroom computers, campus security and building upgrades — all good things, of course, but the school board is divided on...