Browsing Month October, 2007

Portrait of a Lady

By urbanhoustonian at October 30, 2007 | 8:00 PM | 0 Comment

A letter I submitted to Texas Monthly was published in Roar of the Crowd in the November issue: Texas lost one of its true legends with the passing of Lady Bird Johnson [“A Lady First,” September 2007]. It is all the more disappointing when you look around at today’s landscape and find it lacking in those larger-than-life personalities who shaped the mystique of more...

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A wrong comparison

By urbanhoustonian at October 4, 2007 | 8:04 PM | 0 Comment

A letter I wrote in response to the article about the intensely protested 23-story high-rise in the Museum District was published in Tuesday's Chronicle. More on this situation in this week's Thoughts.In her Sept. 30 Outlook article, "23-story high-rise would be nightmare on Bissonnet," Leslie Miller made the suggestion that the proposed construction of a 23-story more...

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