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Comprehensively addressing graffiti
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThe City Council Quality of Life committee met today and talked about, among other things, graffiti abatement. You may remember Councilmember Sue Lovell’s graffiti op-ed a couple weeks back in the Chronicle (why oh why, chron.com, can’t you have real …
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Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesFinishing off the smaller items I started last week:An update to my high-speed rail post from earlier this week: Glaeser analyzes the Houston-Dallas route and finds the costs far exceed the benefits (3 or 6 to 1). AC changes some benefit assumptions …
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