Archive for December 26th, 2009

Activists hope Houston repeats success in fighting pollutant

by on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

In 2005, following Houston Massage Parlors Chronicle and state reports about alarming levels of butadiene in neighborhoods near Texas Petrochemicals, the company signed a non-binding agreement with the TCEQ to cut em…

Ike victims can stay in mobile homes until summer

by on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Texas #039; request to extend the deadline from March 12 to July 9. The extension gives 896 Texas residents still living in mobile homes about four more months to rebuild their homes wrecked by the hurric…

4 Harris County homicides bring tragedy on Christmas

by on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

A 7-year-old boy found his mother beaten and stabbed to death on Christmas Day, one of at least four homicides reported across Harris County on Friday.

At least to museum, typewriters are still letter-perfect

by on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

To refresh your memory, more than 40 painstakingly maintained vintage machines will be on display through March 20 in Houston Massage Parlors#039;s Museum of Printing History#039;s

Third Ward minister#039;s mission to help others branches out

by on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Real Urban Ministry#039;s Robert M. Gilmore Sr., with his wife, Jacqueline Davis-Gilmore, is about to launch a project to help needy veterans and people with drug problems. ldquo;I realize as we go into…