December 30, 2016
Texas legislators want no taxes on feminine hygiene products
Not many people want to talk about it, especially men, but every month women go through their menstrual cycle. During that time, women spend countless dollars on feminine hygiene products.
The 85th Texas Legislature begins next month, and some lawmakers want to look at how those products are taxed.
“I don’t know who crafted the tax code, but I can assure you that there were probably not very many women there to speak up, so I’m speaking up now,” state Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, told the Dallas Morning News.
October 27, 2016
By 2050, Houston to be 60 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white, 15 black, 10 percent Asian
From a mostly white southern city devastated by the 1980s oil bust, Houston has transformed into a thriving international metropolis that in 2050 is projected to look more like El Paso, a predominantly Hispanic city on the Mexican border. An El Paso, that is, with Texas-sized shares of white, black and Asian residents.
It's the face of America's future - a stunning turnaround for a one-horse oil town built on a swamp by two New York City real estate promoters. Now the city is the bellwether for the nation as it navigates the challenges of its changing demographics years ahead of the rest of the country.
March 24, 2016
Fall in oil prices does little to slow Houston's population growth
The Houston area added more people last year than any metropolitan region in the country, continuing its exceptional growth of the last decade and a half, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.
Combined, the greater Houston metropolitan area, which includes Houston, The Woodlands and Sugar Land, grew by about 160,000 people between July 2014 and July 2015. Even in a year when the region was rocked by falling oil prices, the population gain was still bigger than the two previous years, when the boom appeared never-ending.
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