The Houston Chronicle has an op-ed about how buildings aren't being designed to deal with our hot, and getting hotter, summers. Here is a key quote:

People tend to underestimate indoor heat for a few reasons.

One is that the thermostat typically sits on one wall in one room. It does not tell what the temperature is in an upstairs bedroom or near a sun-facing window. In older, underinsulated homes, the actual felt temperature can exceed 90 degrees even when a thermostat reads 75. The hot walls, ceilings and windows can radiate heat directly onto your body.

Another reason is that people assume all homes respond to heat the same way. However, a newer home with double-pane windows and good insulation acts like a thermos, keeping heat out for a longer time. An older home with single-pane windows and cracks in the walls heats up fast.

Two houses on the same street, exposed to the same outdoor conditions, can have completely different temperatures inside. And in a blackout, where neither home has cooling, those differences can become a matter of life and death.

In the early 1970s, a plan to extend SH-225 west to Downtown Houston (Harrisburg Freeway) was ultimately cancelled due to local opposition from community leaders from the East End, Second Ward, and Magnolia neighborhood.

The plan would've significantly changed the way the eastern part of Houston would have looked, by destroying and dividing minority communities. The only remnants of this project is the western end of SH-225, which ends abrutly at a stub.

Similiarly, in the 1960s, a right-of-way was built on the side of Fairmont Parkway and Red Bluff Rd in order to built a highway (Gap Highway) that would've connected to SH-146 in the east. However, the project never took off due to funding issues and shifting priorities. The proposal was finally killed off in 2010 by TXDOT.

• The 2026 edition of the Texas High School Coaches Association's (THSCA) Coaching School was one of the greatest gatherings of elite football minds in the country. However the exclusion of one program's high-performing coach and staff as presenters is becoming a worrisome trend. 
• On Tuesday, after THSCA completed its three-day event inside the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Prairie View A&M head coach Tremaine Jackson took umbrage with the fact that he, along with his Panthers coaching staff, were not invited to lead clinics and give presentations to thousands of attendees. In particular, the event offers an opportunity to make relationships with high school coaches across the state who could mutually benefit from hearing from one another in such an intimate setting.
• "Why weren't our coaches there? We heard that coaches were invited based off of last year's results," Jackson said on social media Tuesday. "If that was the case, if that was the criteria, then somebody should have invited our assistant coaches, our coordinators, our position coaches; they did a phenomenal job.
• "We're the only school in the state of Texas to play for a national championship. Regardless of the result, we were the only school in this state to get there...And so if that's the criteria, then why weren't they selected? Why weren't they invited?"

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I love this for them!

Really not the best looking courthouse, so I waited to try to at least get a good sky to go along to help fluff up the photos a bit more.

Gift link!

Since it's a flair I assume it's positive?

Has anyone here grown up hearing this story? I'm curious how many people in Texas still remember the Lake Worth Monster or heard it from parents or grandparents. Was it treated as a real event, local folklore, or just a fun legend?

The complaint asks the Texas secretary of state to examine whether Paxton committed election fraud by voting in the May primary runoff while registered at an address where he no longer appears to live.

South Korean tech giant Samsung is laying off hundreds amid a move of its U.S. electronics division headquarters to Texas, where it has operations in three cities.

Samsung confirmed in June it was designating Plano as the headquarters of Samsung Electronics America, which is focused on consumer electronics and not involved with Samsung’s booming semiconductor manufacturing business, which has operations in Austin and Taylor.

Now, hundreds of employees are being laid off or given relocation offers.