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Good morning, Houston. We've heard a lot recently about how Galveston's waterfront is suddenly sprouting high-dollar apartments, condos and hotels — but when will developers begin building high-rises overlooking the lovely Houston Ship Channel? Maybe sooner than you'd think: In Alabama and South Texas, the newest bunch of development is occurring along the Intracoastal Waterway, the 1,300-mile manmade shipping channel few had previously considered pretty. But could the development interfere with shipping, the Intracoastal...

Police are investigating two shootings downtown early this morning, one a drive-by on the south end of downtown and another a mysterious incident near a construction project in the Second Ward. The drive-by happened at about 2:30 a.m. outside a bar at Milam and Pease. A group was walking out of the bar when a black Hummer drove up and someone in the vehicle opened fire on the victim, a young woman. Officials said the...

Nine people, including a mother and two of her sons, have been arrested in connection with 22 robberies of bar customers in the Heights and Second Ward, KPRC reports today. The group staged a number of holdups in bars between June and October: They would enter a bar with guns or knives, tell everyone to hit the floor and then steal patrons' wallets, cash and jewelry, money from the cash register and, in some cases,...

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...

City Council on Wednesday delayed a vote again on renewing federal funding to a Second Ward day-labor site after some citizens claimed funding the facility was a violation of federal law. The debate started last week when some councilmembers expressed concern over the best use of the $100,000 from the Community Development Block Grant — particularly the honey-maned Shelley Sekula Gibbs, who has supported day-labor sites in the past but did a 180 on the...

There's nothing quite like a good City Council rumble to close out the week, and we had one Wednesday courtesy of the national immigration debate — more specifically, a local plan to renew city funding to a day-labor site. The flap started after some councilmembers delayed a vote on the federally funded $100,000 contract that would allow Neighborhood Centers to continue running the site in the Second Ward where day laborers wait for jobs. The...