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Navigation Houston Texas Business Directory Blues music developed throughout the Southern United States where several areas developed distinctive regional sounds Houston's distinctive sound grew in the 1920 with early influencers like Lightnin' Hopkins and T-Bone Walker the sound matured over the next 50 years during which it became known as Texas blues the style would gain international notoriety in the modern era when it was adopted by popular regional rockers Stevie Ray Vaughan and ZZ Top among others. . Memorial Bend is made up of 1950s and early 1960s homes built in the modern (contemporary) ranch and traditional styles the neighborhood is considered to have the highest concentration of mid-century modern homes in Houston. Architects who designed homes in this neighborhood include William Norman Floyd William R Jenkins William F Wortham and Lars Bang Many of the homes in Memorial Bend were featured in national architecture and design magazines like American Builder House & Home Practical Builder Better Homes & Gardens and House Beautiful!

. After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640 Portugal re-established authority over its lost territories including remaining Dutch controlled areas the other smaller less developed areas were recovered in stages and relieved of Dutch piracy in the next two decades by local resistance and Portuguese expeditions. The phrase is often used to describe the area appearing in a newspaper column in the Palestine Herald-Press and in tourist guide by Mike Dougan; Taylor Lake Village 16.4 Historiography Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey 68 percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats About 62 percent of Hispanics (of any race) in the area are declared or favor Democrats the city has often been known to be the most politically diverse city in Texas a state known for being generally conservative. As a result the city is often a contested area in statewide elections in 2009 Houston became the first U.S city with a population over 1 million citizens to elect a gay mayor by electing Annise Parker. . The combined yearly sum spent by these agencies circa 2018 was $1.6 billion That year the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research released a report advocating for consolidating several of these agencies as a way of saving taxpayer money. Prelude Equipment and animals Tomball with Texas and U.S ranks Austin Houston has had a troubled past with pollution of many types This is due to the fact that Houston has been the home for the oil and gas industry since its inception in the early 1900s when there was little environmental regulation Harris County where the bulk of the city has been historically located is home to 15 Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites more than any other area in Texas the list contains numerous companies streets and waterways that have been considered hazardous to humans in various ways. .