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(7.9) 61.7 The Railroad Commission of Texas contrary to its name regulates the state's oil and gas industry gas utilities pipeline safety safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry and surface coal and uranium mining Until the 1970s the commission controlled the price of petroleum because of its ability to regulate Texas's oil reserves the founders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used the Texas agency as one of their models for petroleum price control. ! The Smithsonian Institution Gulf of Mexico holdings are expected to provide an important baseline of understanding for future scientific studies on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Congressional testimony Dr Jonathan Coddington Associate Director of Research and Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History provides a detailed overview of the Gulf collections and their sources which Museum staff have made available on an online map the samples were collected for years by the former Minerals Management Service (renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement) to help predict the potential impacts of future oil/gas explorations Since 1979 the specimens have been deposited in the national collections of the National Museum of Natural History, 3.8 Political views In August 2005 Houston became a shelter to more than 150,000 people from New Orleans who evacuated from Hurricane Katrina. One month later about 2.5 million Houston-area residents evacuated when Hurricane Rita approached the Gulf Coast leaving little damage to the Houston area This was the largest urban evacuation in the history of the United States in September 2008 Houston was hit by Hurricane Ike As many as 40% of residents refused to leave Galveston Island because they feared the type of traffic problems that had happened after Hurricane Rita, Petty bickering between Smith and the Council members increased dramatically and on January 9 1836 Smith threatened to dismiss the Council unless they agreed to revoke their approval of the Matamoros Expedition. Two days later the Council voted to impeach Smith and named James W Robinson the Acting Governor it was unclear whether either side actually had the authority to dismiss the other by this point Texas was essentially in anarchy. ! A high rise building with many tiers and a ten-columned cupola topping it, Lady Bird Johnson former First Lady of the United States born in Karnack Harrison County. . Houston TranStar Center Main article: List of ports in the United States, 4 External links 1890 27,557 66.9% The economy which had experienced significant recovery since the Civil War was dealt a double blow by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl After the Stock Market Crash of 1929 the economy suffered significant reversals Thousands of city workers became unemployed many of whom depended on federal relief programs such as FERA WPA and CCC Thousands of unemployed Mexican citizens received one-way bus tickets to their home villages in Mexico, On June 1 1836 Santa Anna boarded a ship to travel back to Mexico For the next two days crowds of Texian soldiers many of whom had arrived that week from the United States gathered to demand his execution Lamar by now promoted to Secretary of War gave a speech insisting that "Mobs must not intimidate the government We want no French Revolution in Texas!" but on June 4 soldiers seized Santa Anna and put him under military arrest. According to Lack "the shock of having its foreign policy overturned by popular rebellion had weakened the interim government irrevocably" a group of soldiers staged an unsuccessful coup in mid-July in response Burnet called for elections to ratify the constitution and elect a Congress the sixth set of leaders for Texas in a twelve-month period. Voters overwhelmingly chose Houston the first president ratified the constitution drawn up by the Convention of 1836 and approved a resolution to request annexation to the United States. Houston issued an executive order sending Santa Anna to Washington D.C and from there he was soon sent home!

On Opening Day April 9 1965 a sold-out crowd of 47,879 watched an exhibition game between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees President Lyndon B Johnson and his wife Lady Bird were in attendance as well as Texas Governor John Connally and Houston Mayor Louie Welch Governor Connally tossed out the first ball for the first game ever played indoors Dick "Turk" Farrell of the Astros threw the first pitch Mickey Mantle had both the first hit (a single) and the first home run in the Astrodome the Astros beat the Yankees that night 2-1, In 2008 Houston received top ranking on Kiplinger's Personal Finance "Best Cities of 2008" list which ranks cities on their local economy employment opportunities reasonable living costs and quality of life the city ranked fourth for highest increase in the local technological innovation over the preceding 15 years according to Forbes magazine in the same year the city ranked second on the annual Fortune 500 list of company headquarters first for Forbes magazine's "Best Cities for College Graduates" and first on their list of "Best Cities to Buy a Home" in 2010 the city was rated the best city for shopping according to Forbes, The largest proposed development was Houston Center originally planned to encompass a 32-block area However by 1989 when the company that acquired the original developer sold Houston Center the complex consisted of three office buildings a shopping center and a hotel. Other large projects included the Cullen Center Allen Center and towers for Shell Oil Company the surge of skyscrapers mirrored the skyscraper booms in other sunbelt cities such as Los Angeles and Dallas Houston had experienced another downtown construction spurt in the 1970s with the energy industry boom! . ; Southside Place 3.1 Music Houston Texas Business Directory.