Diplomacy Harris County ESD #9 Dual Cy-Fair FD 1% .055 Houston has the largest number of bike commuters in Texas with over 160 miles of dedicated bikeways the city is currently in the process of expanding its on and off street bikeway network.[when?] in 2015 Downtown Houston added a cycle track on Lamar Street running from Sam Houston Park to Discovery Green in August 2017 Houston City Council approved spending for construction of 13 additional miles of bike trails. In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area. The Frenchman guided the Spanish to the French fort in late April 1689 the fort and the five crude houses surrounding it were in ruins. Several months before the Karankawa had become angry that the French had taken their canoes without payment and had attacked the settlement sparing only four children. . Constable Precinct 4 Mark Herman Republican, The Kellum-Noble House in a 1936 photograph, Nautical science Hewlett-Packard United States offices formerly headquarters of Compaq. 10 Laredo Webb 257,156 Houston Texas Business Directory 273 Group 1 Automotive, Boom periods of the four major industries that built the early Texas economy. 12.1 Cities (multiple counties) Map of the Island of California circa 1650; restored vte The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans)! .
A factory worker in 1942 Fort Worth Texas Houston is home to the Johnson Space Center NASA's largest research and development facility employing nearly 3,000 federal civil service workers and more than 14,000 contract personnel. Program offices for Project Constellation Orion and other new space vehicle projects will create new jobs at the center.[needs update] the city's burgeoning aerospace industry heralded its second growth spurt which solidified with the 1973 oil crisis the majority of the contractor work force related to the projects will also be located at the center. Texas Governor Rick Perry recently announced a $7.5 million Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant to Lockheed Martin which will bring about 1,000 jobs to the Houston area the grant ensures that Lockheed Martin will create these jobs in the Houston area after they earned a multibillion-dollar contract from NASA to build the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Houston is also home to the United Space Alliance which employs well over 10,000 people; The San Jacinto Monument is a memorial to the men who died during the Texas Revolution.
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