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Good morning, Houston. Suppose you're trying to keep up with piles and piles of government reports. How can you tell when there are too many? Simple: You ask for a report, of course. That's what the Texas State Library and Archives Commission did — and in a 668-page report, the commission has declared that the state is over-reported. The commission looked at more than 170 state agencies and universities and found more than 1,600... more ›

Local school districts' already complicated job of deciding whether to call off classes because of this week's bad weather has been made more complicated, the Chronicle reports, because people have pulled a list of school closings from 1997 off the newspaper's website and sent it around as though it's current. And, amazingly enough, it seems people have read the old article — which clearly states it's from Jan. 14, 1997, and refers to a particularly... more ›

East Texas and the Spring school district will get $26 million in hurricane recovery funds from FEMA, the state announced today. The bulk of the money — $19 million — will go toward repairing East Texas electric lines, but the Spring ISD will get $1.4 million to help cover the cost of educating 1,225 students displaced by Hurricane Rita. The remainder of the funding will be used for debris removal in Tyler County. The state... more ›