2000 to present-day Arts and theater, In 1839 the Republic of Texas relocated its capital to Austin the town suffered another setback that year when a yellow fever epidemic claimed about one life out of every eight residents Yet it persisted as a commercial center forming a symbiosis with its Gulf Coast port Galveston Landlocked farmers brought their produce to Houston using Buffalo Bayou to gain access to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico Houston merchants profited from selling staples to farmers and shipping the farmers' produce to Galveston, Harris County ESD #28 Fire Ponderosa VFD 1% .10. . 8 Notes Pre-Columbian Texas 142 Harold Dutton Jr. Democratic 1984 East Houston and Northshore area September 4 1992; Co-headlining tour of Metallica and Guns N' Roses with special guest Faith No More News footage of this concert can be found on YouTube at Additionally MTV filmed an episode of Live n' Loud during the show. January 11 1973: 2.0 inches (5.1 cm) of snow, 8.2 Mass transit 143 Ana Hernandez Luna Democratic 2006 East Houston within Loop 610 Houston Ship Channel Galena Park Jacinto City northern Pasadena, Education Frustrated at the lack of progress and feeling the pinch of the American-British-Dutch sanctions Japan prepared for war on 20 November a new government under Hideki Tojo presented an interim proposal as its final offer it called for the end of American aid to China and for lifting the embargo on the supply of oil and other resources to Japan in exchange Japan promised not to launch any attacks in Southeast Asia and to withdraw its forces from southern Indochina the American counter-proposal of 26 November required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers. That meant Japan was essentially forced to choose between abandoning its ambitions in China or seizing the natural resources it needed in the Dutch East Indies by force; the Japanese military did not consider the former an option and many officers considered the oil embargo an unspoken declaration of war. . . District 9 Al Green Democratic 2004 Alief Southwest Houston Houston's Southside, Dan Jones International Airport in unincorporated northwestern Harris County, 6.3 Seating capacity 7.3 Minor oil spills. 12 Communities (23.8) 77.1 Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state.
Houston Texas Business Directory Since 1980 San Antonio has evolved into "The Tejano Music Capital Of the World" the Tejano Music Awards have provided a forum to create greater awareness and appreciation for Tejano music and culture, The bicameral Texas Legislature consists of the House of Representatives with 150 members and a Senate with 31 members the Speaker of the House leads the House and the lieutenant governor the Senate the Legislature meets in regular session biennially for just over 100 days but the governor can call for special sessions as often as desired (notably the Legislature cannot call itself into session) the state's fiscal year spans from the previous calendar year's September 1 to the current year's August 31 Thus the FY 2015 dates from September 1 2014 through August 31 2015. .
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