Info, links, news and calendar items from the virtual streets of Houston, Texas.
Car commercials, court TV bringing good jobs to the Bayou City
– Houston Business Journal
[snip]The film industry, especially commercials and court TV, are bringing
good-paying jobs to the Bayou City, says Rick Ferguson, director of the
Houston Film Commission, a division of the Greater Houston Convention
and Visitors Bureau. And, he notes, it’s an industry with a minuscule
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Houston has a new non-profit, the Houston History Association:
It is our mission to promote Houston area history through education and serve as a resource for existing educational institutions, historical organizations, and archival groups. We are working to document neighborhood histories, recapture the past through oral histories, and inspire all citizens of greater Houston to learn more about their diverse culture and legacy.We believe that Houstonians who are conversant with their history and especially with the role their own neighborhoods have played in that history will understand how vital it is that we cooperate to protect the various aspects of our shared past.
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Self-made immigrant is poised to take the lead at university
AN AMAZING JOURNEY FROM CUBA TO A&M
– Houston Chronicle2
The faded black-and-white photograph shows a family of four in their finest clothes, standing on an airport tarmac. Everyone is smiling, except for the little girl holding her maracas and teddy bear. She is crying.The date: July 4, 1961. It’s the day they fled Cuba, starting an unlikely journey that has landed the toddler — now an accomplished scholar — on the doorstep of a historic presidency at Texas A&M University.
At first glance, Elsa Murano doesn’t fit the profile of the university’s typical chief executive — a white male over age 50. But A&M describes itself as “a unique American institution,” and what’s more uniquely American than a self-made immigrant who relied on her own determination to reach the top?
“It’s a tremendous reflection of what is possible,” Murano said after regents recently named her the only finalist for the presidency. “Only in America can a girl from Havana get to this point.”
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Neil Frank is hanging up his raincoat
– Houston Chronicle2
[snip]Frank, KHOU’s (Channel 11) chief meteorologist since 1987 and the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said Thursday he will retire from the station next year.
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Three Houston schools make gold standard
– KHOU CBS Channel 111
Two HISD schools as well as a Houston-based charter school were ranked among the nation’s top 100 by U.S. News and World Report magazine. The magazine’s first foray into ranking public high schools was released Friday.HISD’s gold-medal schools – those are the campuses ranked in the top 100 of the nation – were DeBakey High School for Health Professions at No. 87 and Carnegie Vanguard High School, which came in at No. 96.
Houston’s nationally acclaimed YES Prep School ranked No. 38.
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