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College Admissions and Affirmative Action: In Texas it's Still Legal

A court says the University of Texas at Austin can consider race as an admissions factor. With college admission so competitive, are they right?

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Are 1000 Teach For America Teachers Worth $8 Million?

Teach For America's presence in Texas may be in jeopardy thanks to the state's $20 billion budget shortfall.

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Houston Gets Private Electric Car Charging Network

Texas might be getting the most innovative and practical electric car charging system in the United States. Surprise?

The Cities with the Most Frustrating Traffic Problems

IBM surveyed drivers in 20 of the world's metropolises to see which city's drivers experienced most drivers experienced most traffic-related woes.

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A Neighborhood Canvas

When Assata Richards moved into one of the newly renovated row houses in Houston's Third Ward in the winter of 1996, she knew her life had...

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Houston Embraces the Leaf

The city of Houston is partnering with Nissan and Reliant Energy to make the city electric-car friendly (and get people driving the Nissan Leaf)....

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Saving Money by Cutting Traffic

America is known for its car culture-but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...

Putting the Stimulus to Work

In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to...

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Ike: A Year Later

Hurricane Ike remains a strange moment in our nations recent history. In a world where Hurricane Katrina hadn't happened, it would have been huge...