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Good morning, Houston. Speaking of problems you didn't know existed, we've got two words for you: Duck dumping. It means leaving domestic ducks in places where they shouldn't be — and it's happening at Hermann Park. People apparently decide their ducks would like to join their brethren at the park, particularly around Easter, but the domestic ducks don't mix with the wild ones that actually live in the park: The domestic ones roost on...

Good morning, Houston. It's June 5 — does that date mean anything to you? It should: Six years ago today, Tropical Storm Allison made landfall on the upper Texas coast, bringing with it more than 40 inches of rain in some areas (and all the flooding that went with it). When all was said and done, the damages totaled $5.5 billion, making Allison the most costly tropical storm in U.S. history. Have any memories of that weekend? We know you do — share 'em in the comments.

For the past 25 years, the Houston Area Survey, directed by Rice University Sociology Professor Stephen Klineberg, has been offering a timely window into the minds of Houstonians. The recently completed 2007 survey especially shows how Houston's attitudes reflect the changes in our post-Katrina city. This year, crime was the number one worry for Houston residents, but immigration is a fast-growing concern. For the second year, the number of people who believe that the racial...

Good morning, Houston. The good thing about having a lovers' spat is that there's almost always someone else out there having one that's far worse — take, for example, the story of a Conroe quarrel that led to a woman ramming her ex-boyfriend's car. Thomas Young-Davis told police that his ex got upset that he had a new girlfriend, so she followed him to a gas station yesterday afternoon, backed into his car twice...

The newest results of the annual Houston Area Survey are starting to appear, showing Houstonians' increasing wariness of lingering Katrina victims and the influence of immigration in the city, among other concerns. The survey, an annual pet project of Rice University Professor Stephen Klineberg, has been tracking city-wide trends of opinions and demographics since 1982. This year, February's results show that sixty-six percent of respondents deem the influx of Katrina refugees "a bad thing",...

The Chronicle today takes an interesting look at Houston's appeal to young, college-educated professionals — and finds that the city really has very little appeal at all. It doesn't surprise us that young professionals don't flock to Houston, especially compared with other Texas cities: They can't as readily live like hippies here as they can in Austin, and they can't as readily live like uppity snobs here as they can in Dallas. What was something of a shock, though, is that Houston didn't show up on the radar screen at all in a recent survey of young workers by CEOs for Cities — it wasn't among the 20 cities young professionals said they'd most like to live in, nor was it among the 20 they said they would hate living in. That's not so good ... and not so bad ... maybe.

Federal authorities announced yesterday that Houston will get $40 million in FEMA reimbursement for housing Katrina evacuees, bringing the total Houston has received to $183 million. The city has issued more than 35,000 housing vouchers to 90,000 evacuees; the $40 million will cover housing expenses through March 31.