Archive for May, 2009

Houston Art Car Parade

Dave and I went to the Art Car Parade this Saturday and had a great time taking some pictures of the crazy rides. For anyone who hasn’t heard about it, the Art Car Parade is a Houston tradition, put on by every year by Orange Show. This year was the 22nd parade, it ran on [...]

Cops and Robbers

This is truly despicable. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery. The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had [...]

Toll Impact

The Urban Land Institute and Earnst & Young recently released their annual infrastructure report. Infrastructure 2009 featured some really fascinating analysis of our national infrastructure, and made some strong recommendations. Chief among these is to shift the cost of infrastructure to users as much as possible. They explored a lot of ideas, but the two [...]