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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas’ unemployment rate in May was 5.9%—nearly double the pre-pandemic unemployment rate of 3.1% in May 2019. Similarly, the unemployment rate in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area was 6.6% …
Read MoreWe’ve had quite a 12 hours of storms across the region, particularly from just north of I-10 south to the coast, with some impressive lightning and heavy rainfall. The highest 24 hour total I can find on the Harris County Food Control website is just a hair over 3 inches …
Read MoreA recent report by Bethesda, Maryland-based RCLCO Real Estate Consulting found that Texas ranked behind only Florida in the number of homes sold in master-planned communities during the first half of 2021.
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On Tuesday’s Houston Matters: A new report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research sho…
Are there any markets, stores, or restaurants where someone could practice their german? I have a friend who wants to practice his german in more social settings and aside from german classes I don’t really know any place he could do this.
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Several weeks ago, most of the Houston area’s COVID-19 metrics were trending in the right direction. According to the Texas Medical Center, the spread of the coronavirus was slowing down, not speeding up, and that combined with low daily new case count…
Read MoreLately when he sits at the piano to write or rehearse, Jason Mraz said he’ll often find himself playing the melody to “Pure Imagination,” the song from the 1970s film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. There’s a line in the song which goes, “Anyt…
Read MoreWhen I first saw Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka sing “Come with me and you’ll be in a a world of pure imagination,” I was all in. The idea of edible candy mushrooms and “you can even eat the dishes” was the stuff of dreams. My little brothers and I,…
Read MoreLongtime Houston event organizer Ginger Simon is looking to enter the comic con game this fall, and her first attempt looks like it just might be small and notable enough to work. The Houston fan convention scene is in a tumultuous state, and it’s not …
Read MoreThe latest odds to make the postseason for each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams came out on Monday, and right now, the Houston Astros are the third most likely team to participate in extensive October baseball, trailing only the Chicago White Sox…
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