Featured Academics aren’t enough – How can we teach character traits? (Zachary Hodges, Duncan Klussmann, Steve Rosencranz – Houston Chronicle, 12/1/2014) “Read Boles, the president of Southwest Shipyard, on the Houston ship channel, is challenged to find shipyard workers who can perform exacting barge repair tasks… he’s not seeing enough applicants he can count on to show up on time,…
The Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District (GCCPRD) will host a series of public scoping meetings in December 2014 to encourage public participation and feedback in the Storm Surge Suppression Study. Following three major hurricanes, the last of which (Hurricane Ike) was the most expensive in Texas’ history, Governor Perry issued an Executive Order creating the Governor’s…
Featured Tighter smog limits would force stricter controls in Houston (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 11/26/2014) “Houston and large parts of Texas and the nation would need to clamp down harder on smog-forming pollution under a stricter standard proposed by the Obama administration Wednesday… The proposed rule also could affect smaller towns and rural areas for the first time. Some…