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East Texas comprises 41 counties 38 of which collaborate in sub-regional Ark-Tex Council of Governments the East Texas Council of Governments the Deep East Texas Council of Governments and the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission, Nic Santangelo an analyst of the Bureau of Labor Statistics a department of the U.S Department of Labor that composes the monthly consumer price index said in 1992 "We have a difficult time explaining why Houston food prices go one way Dallas another and the nation yet another." a person quoted in the Houston Post described as an industry insider said that when companies in the Houston grocery market left the surviving competitors "got comfortable" and raised prices Tammy Bobon a director of public affairs for AppleTree Markets said that the Houston grocery market had remained competitive for the entire period. ; Migration Houston Texas Business Directory, Trade 1940 528,961 47.2% Greater Houston metropolitan area is served by a public television station and one public radio station KUHT (HoustonPBS) is a PBS member station and the first public television station in the United States Houston Public Radio is listener-supported radio with one NPR member station KUHF (KUHF News) the University of Houston System owns and holds broadcasting licenses to KUHT and KUHF the stations broadcast from the Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting located on the campus of the University of Houston. The Mississippian culture also known as Mound Builders which extended along the Mississippi River Valley east of Texas; and Eastern FrontManhattan Project On December 13 2007 Mexico submitted information to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) regarding the extension of Mexico's continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. Mexico sought an extension of its continental shelf in the Western Polygon based on international law UNCLOS and bilateral treaties with the United States in accordance with Mexico's domestic legislation on March 13 2009 the CLCS accepted Mexico's arguments for extending its continental shelf up to 350 NM into the Western Polygon Since this would extend Mexico's continental shelf well into territory claimed by the United States however Mexico and the U.S would need to enter a bilateral agreement based on international law that delimits their respective claims. Lucas Gusher Spindletop near Beaumont Texas, The Dome was completed in November 1964 six months ahead of schedule. Many engineering changes were required during construction including the modest flattening of the supposed "hemispherical roof" to cope with environmentally induced structural deformation and the use of a new paving process called "lime stabilization" to cope with changes in the chemistry of the soil the air conditioning system was designed by Houston mechanical engineers Israel A Naman and Jack Boyd Buckley of I A Naman + Associates, Since the 1549 arrival to Kagoshima (Kyushu) of a group of Jesuits with St Francis Xavier missionary and Portuguese traders Spain was interested in Japan in this first group of Jesuit missionaries were included Spaniards Cosme de Torres and Juan Fernandez. Hilshire Village By 1860 Houston had emerged as a commercial and railroad hub for the export of cotton. Railroad spurs from the Texas inland converged in Houston where they met rail lines to the ports of Galveston and Beaumont During the American Civil War Houston served as a headquarters for General John Magruder who used the city as an organization point for the Battle of Galveston. After the Civil War Houston businessmen initiated efforts to widen the city's extensive system of bayous so the city could accept more commerce between Downtown and the nearby port of Galveston by 1890 Houston was the railroad center of Texas; . 14 Footnotes In 1840 the community established a chamber of commerce in part to promote shipping and navigation at the newly created port on Buffalo Bayou, 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, "Welcome to Texas" road sign Comancheria before 1850!

Houston Texas Business Directory From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch set up more permanently in the Nordeste and controlled a long stretch of the coast most accessible to Europe without however penetrating the interior But the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege in spite of the presence in Recife of John Maurice of Nassau as governor After several years of open warfare the Dutch formally withdrew in 1661. Texas's population density is 90.5 people per square mile (34.9/km2) which is slightly higher than the average population density of the U.S as a whole at 80.6 people per square mile (31.1/km2) in contrast while Texas and France are similarly sized geographically the European country has a population density of 301.8 people per square mile (116.5/km2). . . Main article: Demographics of Texas, Beginning during the 4th millennium BC the population of Texas increased despite a changing climate and the extinction of giant mammals Many pictograms from this era drawn on the walls of caves or on rocks are visible in the state including at Hueco Tanks and Seminole Canyon, Houston's bicycle sharing system started service with nineteen stations in May 2012 Houston Bcycle (also known as B-Cycle) a local non-profit runs the subscription program supplying bicycles and docking stations while partnering with other companies to maintain the system the network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014 registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year in 2017 Bcycle logged over 142,000 check outs while expanding to 56 docking stations!