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Good morning, Houston. Ever been to Podunk, Texas? You have if you've ever visited the east Houston neighborhood of Denver Harbor, which was affectionately called Podunk during the Great Depression because it was then far enough east to seem semi-rural. And as of yesterday, thanks to a state House resolution, Podunk is the Official Mythical Town of Texas. Grady got the resolution passed by gathering 700 signatures on a petition and persuading the area's...

Good morning, Houston. Score one for Sugar Land's fake downtown: This summer, it will become the location of the Children's Museum of Houston's first satellite location. The Children's Museum of Houston Discovery Center at Sugar Land Town Square — that's CMHDCSLTS for short — will occupy 9,000 square feet of space in the Town Square development for six weeks beginning June 1. Though it's just a temporary deal, museum brass say the Discovery Center...

Another indication that schools are tougher places than they used to be: At Ball High in Galveston yesterday, officials used pepper spray to break up a lunchtime food fight. Back in Houstonist's day, we would have been administered a stern rap across the knuckles with a wooden ruler, but no one would ever have thought to spray pepper at us. Oh, wait.

The latest in the ongoing saga of the Galveson ISD athletic director: He's suing the school district for lost pay and unspecified damages. Brent Jaco was removed from his job in December; although the district told him not to say why, everyone assumed it had to do with his reporting that a junior safety on the Ball High football team was ineligible because he didn't meet residency requirements. The UIL disqualified the Ball High team and people got a little upset.

Ex-Galveston ISD Athletic Director Brent Jaco, who was demoted after he reported a UIL violation that caused Ball High's football team to be disqualified from the state playoffs, has asked for his job back. Jaco filed a grievance asking the Galveston school board to overturn the decision of Superindentent Lynn Hale, who recently announced her retirement.

If there's one thing you learn by living in Texas, it's that high school football is sacred. So when the Galveston ISD athletic director made a report that resulted in Ball High's football team being disqualified from the state playoffs, people got pissed. First there was the death threat against AD Brent Jaco, and now Jaco's been removed from his job.

If there's one thing Texans take seriously, it's high school extracurricular events. Remember Wanda Webb Holloway, the erstwhile cheerleader murderer? (That reminds us of another thing Texans take seriously: big hair.) This week, another story from the same file.