FBI Crime Statistics for 2018 Confirm Violent Crime Up Significantly
Yesterday the FBI released the crime statistics for 2018. Those numbers confirm precisely what I have been saying on the ...
Texas COVID Fatalities
Texas COVID Fatalities
Violent Crime Continues to Climb in Houston, but Pandemic Slows Some Crimes
Crime Continues to Climb in Houston
Texas Nursing Homes & COVID
Texas Nursing Homes & COVID
US COVID Fatalities Last Week Lowest Since Late March
The CDC keeps track of all fatalities in the US on a weekly basis, counting the number from each Sunday ...
City Sales Taxes Holding Up Better Than Many Feared So Far
The City of Houston sales tax receipts for June (reflecting April sales) were down 17% from last year following a ...
Opened Minds & Broken Hearts
Opened Minds & Broken Hearts
Quote of the Week – “You’ve got to have a lot of humility with these viruses.”
How Little We Know about the Cov-SARS-2 Virus Things that we do not understand concern us. Things we cannot control ...
Have You Made Your Family’s Plan for a Hurricane?
Hurricane season is getting off to an early start this year, as we uncharacteristically already have a tropical system in ...
Suburbs Outstrip City in Population Growth
According to population estimates recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Houston’s suburbs are growing much more rapidly than the ...
What Are the Odds of Surviving COVID?
I have some friends in their mid-70s who have only left their home a handful of times over the last ...
Update on California v Florida COVID Outcomes
Two weeks ago, I compared the course of the COVID outbreaks in Florida and California in this post, highlighting the ...
Proposed City Budget Will Add 625 Employees but Cut Police Officers
I am guessing that if you asked the average Houstonian how they would feel about increasing the number of City ...
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