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Houston politicians really are men and women of the people. Tonight, State Rep. Ellen Cohen will host a town hall meeting at Rice University to hear from her constituents about education in Texas. There will be two presentations, one by former Lt.-Gov. Bill Ratliff, of Raise Your Hand Texas, and a second by students from Lamar and Bellaire High Schools discussing tuition deregulation. After this, there will of course be time for comments and questions... more ›

Energy is big business in Houston, but how we often produce it — burning coal or oil — is dirty business. So it's great to hear about local companies investing money in new, cleaner power-producing technologies, especially when their success is far from a sure bet. Thursday Hunton Energy announced plans to build a power plant south of Sugarland that will use two separate approaches to keep greenhouse gases out of the air. First, they... more ›