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Good morning, Houston. Remember Mayor Bill's agreement with Clear Channel that would result in the removal of nearly 900 billboards across the city? Well, it's not necessarily a done deal after all: On Wednesday, six City Council members voted to delay the plan, saying they still had questions about its ramifications. The problem, they said, was that the deal would allow Clear Channel to move remaining billboards: "We're allowing new billboard locations to pop up, and they will pop up in disadvantaged neighborhoods," Councilwoman Anne Clutterbuck said. Most billboards in the city are scheduled to come down in 2013, deal or no deal; White said his proposal is the best hope for cleaning things up before then. Council will consider the plan again next week.

On Wednesday October 10th, Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, and co-author of “Design like you Give a Damn” will be delivering the final lecture in the Rice Design Alliance’s 2007 Fall series “Design Activism: Agents of Change.” As much a networking tool as design resource, Architecture for Humanity is instrumental in providing architectural solutions to humanitarian crises around the world. To get a feel for exactly what architecture for humanity looks like, Mr....

Baseball's most self-pitying franchise is at it again. The Chicago Cubs are pissed at the Astros for the players that the Astros sent out to play against the Brewers this week. The Cubs and Brewers are locked in a struggle for the NL Central title, with the Brewers currently on top; baseball courtesy dictates that the Astros field their best team against the Brewers, so as not to hand them "cheap" wins. It's a supposed...

Good morning, Houston. These days, when everyone and their dog has a computer, it's getting harder to remember the days when all "official" writing was done on typewriters. The practical modern typewriter was invented in 1868 by an engineer named Christopher Latham Sholes, but it wasn't until 121 years ago today — Sept. 14, 1886 — that George K. Anderson of Memphis got a patent for the typewriter ribbon. They were originally made of...

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...

The first gang member testified yesterday in the trial of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old girl accused of stabbing 15-year-old Gabriel Granillo to death last summer during a gang fight at Chew Park — and he told jurors that Granillo wasn't trying to run away from the fight, as prosecutors had said during opening arguments Monday. The witness — a 20-year-old members of Southwest Locos Salvatrucha, a Houston subset of the MS-13 gang, who calls himself...

There was a hearing yesterday on a request from a Richmond Avenue resident and business owner to order Metro officials to testify about its transit expansion plans, but there was no ruling — yet. Daphne Scarborough, an outspoken opponent of proposals to run a light rail line down Richmond, filed the motion in mid-April seeking information about the University Line alignment, Metro's substituting buses for trains on some of its proposed new transit lines, how...

Houstonian Charlie Robison is coming to Warehouse Live this Thursday night and we’re giving you a chance to win a pair of tickets. Actually, we have two pairs of tickets for the show, so you can urge your friends to enter, too! Robison, who was born in Houston but raised in Bandera, first hit the Texas country music scene over a decade ago. His 1998 album Life of the Party received a lot of regional...

Gov. Rick Perry is apparently fed up with questions surrounding his executive order requiring Texan pre-teen girls to be vaccinated for human pappilomavirus, a variety of viruses that cause most cases of cervical cancer: On Thursday, pressed with questions about the mandate while trying to promote a plan to sell the state lottery and use the proceeds to fund cancer research, Perry snapped at reporters. "I wish you all would quit splitting hairs, frankly, and...

So here's a numismatic question: Does anyone ever use Sacagawea dollars, the golden $1 coins the U.S. Mint started churning out in 2000? More than a billion of them are in circulation, but Houstonist never gets one in change. It makes us wonder just how well the Mint's latest foray into dollar coins, the presidential dollar, is going to work out. But we'll know pretty soon: The first presidential dollar, featuring the mug of George...

Houstonist recently lunched at Christian's Totem on Washington Avenue, near I-10. In the spirit of passing along "burger-love" to Houstonians, we had to tell you about this little joint. It has undergone some remodeling of late, but, the burgers are just the same! Huge, juicy fully-loaded burgers with nice crispy onion rings or fries. We've had both the fries and the rings, they are fantastic - it just depends on your personal preference - we...

Did we say it was going to rain a lot yesterday? Well, depending on where you live, it did: It was just wet and icky inside the Loop, but things got pretty crazy on the west side, we hear. And it may not be over yet: Harris County and southeast Texas remain under a flood watch this morning, and if storms move slowly through the area, isolated areas could get another 6 to 8 inches....

Remember Jennifer Silva, the Katy elementary school teacher who was fired in April for taping students' mouths shut? Well, she's back in the news: On Wednesday, the Texas Education Agency ruled that Silva must be given her job back or paid her $40,000 annual salary because the Katy school district didn't give her due process during an appeal hearing on April 24. TEA Chief Deputy Commissioner Robert Scott ruled that the school district violated due...

Catching up with City Council activity this week: On Wednesday, councilmembers voted to approve $100,000 in funding for a day-labor site in the Second Ward, a proposal that sparked a debate in council over the last two weeks. Some councilmembers opposed using the money, part of a Community Development Block Grant, to fund the day-labor site because they said some of the people using the site might be illegal immigrants and it would be illegal...

And so, at the beginning of the 15th week of the Lay/Skilling trial, testimony finally wrapped up Monday after the prosecution called three rebuttal witnesses, then rested around 11 a.m. Jurors have been dismissed until Monday, when the prosecution will present its closing argument — which leaves the rest of the week for speculation. Woohoo! According to the Chronicle's stable of legal experts, the outcome of the trial will likely turn on the testimony of...

Wow — we almost thought we were going to go a week without news of another development in the City Hall payroll scandal. Sure, there was the story of Rosita Hernandez's amazing disappearing GED, but that didn't really count as breaking news. Fortunately, there is something as we close out the week: The FBI has asked for the bank records of former Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado, though DA Chuch Rosenthal said she's not the...

The Enron trial took a long weekend because of scheduling conflicts with the next few witnesses, but we can't go a day without some hot Lay/Skilling action — er, no, that came out completely wrong. But onward: On Wednesday, Newsweek looked in on the trial, noting that it's still generating an odd sort of corporate-scandal tourism. It seems the courtroom seats are being filled daily not only by members of the press, but also by...

There was more violence last night at Drink Houston, the bar where a man was shot to death Wednesday night. The victim said he was inside the Drink Houston bar when he was approached by three men and stabbed in the stomach, KHOU (Channel 11) reported today. The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition. According to KHOU, Houston police are investigating whether the stabbing is gang-related. KHOU reported the man was taken...