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The Lyric Centre sits in the heart of the Theater District just across the street from the Wortham Center and adjacent to the Alley Theatre the black-and-white striped office building houses dozens of law firms but the block on which the tower sits is perhaps best known for the giant cellist playing outside. It is the work of sculptor David Addickes who also created the statue of Sam Houston outside Huntsville Texas! . Houston Texas Business Directory Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas (METRO) serves several areas within Harris County an agency of the Harris County government Harris County Transit serves communities in Harris County that are not served by METRO.

2 Climate The city's major sports teams were using outdated stadiums and threatened to leave Eventually the Houston Oilers did so after several threats the city built Enron Field now Minute Maid Park for the Houston Astros Reliant Stadium now NRG Stadium was erected for the NFL expansion team Houston Texans.[citation needed]. ! Harris County ESD #46 Dual Atascocita VFD 1% .08 Weather In June 1979 the Ixtoc I oil platform in the Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout leading to a catastrophic explosion which resulted in a massive oil spill that continued for nine months before the well was finally capped This was ranked as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. . Main article: Politics of Texas Media See also: List of cities in Texas List of counties in Texas List of Texas metropolitan areas and List of cities in Texas by population. ! Houston Texas Business Directory 1920 4,663,228 19.7% Arts The city has hosted several major professional and college sporting events including the annual Houston Open golf tournament Houston hosts the annual Houston College Classic baseball tournament every February and the Texas Kickoff and Bowl in September and December respectively. From 1950 through the 1960s Texas modernized and dramatically expanded its system of higher education Under the leadership of Governor Connally the state produced a long-range plan for higher education a more rational distribution of resources and a central state apparatus that managed state institutions with greater efficiency Because of these changes Texas universities received federal funds for research and development during the John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson administrations, 10.6 Medical research Houston first started shipping cotton lumber and other manufacturing products Alexander McGowen established the iron industry and Tom Whitmarsh built a cotton warehouse a fire ravaged Houston on March 10 1859 but the city rebuilt itself soon after.[citation needed].