Houston is having one hell of an Arbor Day and you too can be a part of it (you just have to get your hands a little on the dirty side). Arbor Day was established in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska City, Nebraska. It seems that the Nebraska Territory was not readily settled, due to the lack of trees on the tallgrass prairie (the better to build and heat cabins - log cabins, not grass ones). Hey, if free land won't bring in the settlers, something is seriously amiss! Purportedly, over a million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day, then only a one-state event. Word of how cool planting trees really is spread pretty quickly - considering there were no cell phones "back in the day". The tree-planting holiday was celebrated in every state by 1894.
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A city dump truck driver crashed into a car, injured two people and killed another yesterday morning — apparently because he lost control of his truck, the Chronicle reports. The driver was trying to turn from Atascocita Road onto Will Clayton Parkway at around 11 a.m., but the truck kept going on Atascocita, hitting a Jeep Cherokee and the two workers who were building a handicap ramp at the intersection. According to KHOU, the Harris...
Houstonist has often been the victim of brutal rebuffs from Bush airport personnel who told us we aren't allowed to wait to pick up our friends and family in the area just outside the terminal where one is supposed to wait to pick up one's friends and family. We understand security concerns, so even though circling the airport takes a really long time, we were willing to do it.