Featured Climate change, runaway development worsen Houston floods (Frank Bajak – Seth Borenstein – The Columbus Dispatch, 5/18/2016) “With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico. Now the nation’s fourth-largest city is being overwhelmed with more frequent and more destructive…
Featured Threats to prairie show tension between growth, flood protection (Mike Snyder – Houston Chronicle, 5/16/2016) “Imagine a sponge. Now imagine that you had access to something that would make this sponge – an inherently absorbent object – many times more absorbent. Something that supercharged its capacity to soak up and hold liquid. That’s a fair description of the grass…
GO VOTE! Vote early by May 20, 2016, or vote on Election Day on the 24th. Depending on where you live, you may be voting to determine who will be on the ballot in the fall for railroad commissioner, state representatives, the State Board of Education, various district judges, county commissioners, constables, justices of the peace, county party chairs, and,…