IronTiger

Requiring new developments to have low income housing would be basically subsidizing luxury apartments on the taxpayer's dime. The reason why low-income housing has such a bad rep is that they tend to be huge crime problems, and that has been a problem again and again. Lol. You actually think Fox news is the only biased news source out there? Translation: "I am ignoring everything you say. Because I am ignoring you, your arguments are invalid."

Hmmm...one thing to do would be to get the old ROW in the old KBR site, build a bridge (there might have been originally one), then the spur carries full traffic, and instead of street running northwest on Commerce Street, the rail runs southeast on the Commerce Street ROW (road abandoned). The ROW will be continued on the Harrisburg Hike & Bike Trail. Keep in mind that the railtrail system was created with the possibility of a rail line being re-activated there. The yard to the east of Spur 5 is retained (it just terminates). The creation of the Highway 35 expansion will take some additional ROW, and it may possibly split (that apartment at Canal and Navigation may end up having the northbound to the east, southbound to the west).

You didn't oversimply anything? Don't lie to yourself. Tell me where I said that reintegration efforts were pointless. Believe it or not, everyone (including minorities) fled cities if they had money. That's because of the reasons I had listed above. Some people don't just understand that, much like Coleman Young. In ALL suburbs, there's a small percentage of minorities. Anyone can move anywhere if they can afford it. And they do. Unless, of course, you're implying that all black people are poor, of which the problem is on you. The main reason people stay in the "ghetto", like much of Detroit, is that they can't afford to. Higher taxes compound that, even though they'll never see a cent of it in terms of taxes. Oh wow, citing from a far-left magazine! That really backs up your argument. I'm not covering it up, I'm using fairly common vernacular (again, see elsewhere on HAIF) which your liberal goggles interpreted as racist. I can't help it if you don't understand me. Again, even if redlining was the cause of social unrest and demographic shifts in the 1960s, it doesn't really hold up today. Remember what we said about post-1960s deteriorated neighborhoods? That was ignored, as it blew a massive hole in your theory. Instead of trying to fight it, you went straight for the "If all else fails, accuse the other party of being racist" card because you had no other choice. Man, they must have loved you back when you were on the debate team.

Tuesdays and Sundays only, apparently.

Wow, you not only missed my point but you managed to drastically oversimplify it: "You basically endorse genocide by saying U.S. should not enter/pull out of Country X" would be another drastic oversimplification. I did read the transcript, and I found that the part at the beginning was a bit irrelevant to the point they were trying to make. Some people will charge differently based on race. I could go to a heavily Hispanic neighborhood and end up paying more for a taco than other people. Call the government! Force non-Hispanics to move in! I'm being discriminated against! No, you missed the point. Again. The "Plantation" is a term used in a book on how the welfare system keeps people poor, which was written by an African-American woman who managed to get OUT of welfare and wrote about WHY it is hard to get out. This term is also used on another WOT topic on HAIF which you did participate in. I'm guessing it flew over your head and you misinterpreted it as a racist remark.

Between two trips, I've been to Banana Leaf (lots of good food for a reasonable price), Hong Kong City Mall, fit (was there mostly because my cousin's wife enjoyed it), Juice Box, and a dumpling house in Diho Center that I can't recall the name of.

Picking and choosing your arguments again, I see: I agree. The "Plantation" is a destructive lifestyle. Once again, hinging your entire argument on a flawed report is really dangerous. This is the same reason why using the Bible as a defense in debates is a bad idea, even if you believe in your heart of hearts that it's 100% true. Yes, I know you're scoffing: "The Bible was mistranslated by monks over centuries, and thus flawed data. This right here is REAL FACTS WITHOUT ANYTHING WRONG!" Sure they did. We don't see as Montrose and the Heights as suburbs today because the city engulfed them and spread out further. But there's a reason why they were called streetcar suburbs, and the large houses that still remain are a testament to the fact. However, even after pointing your old condemnations of white flight (thus, sprawl) you exonerate streetcars for all wrongdoing. Moreover, you ignored the "neighborhoods built after the 1930s" flaw that punches a pretty large hole in your theory.

Yup. I was going to say that the "redlining is the cause of woes" theory may have worked in the 1960s but then doesn't work for neighborhoods that were built since and subsequently deteriorated. This is all the more hilariously sad when I listed other legitimate causes of why neighborhoods stay poor and you brushed them off for a reason that didn't actually exist in that case. Classy. Also, your "white flight started in the 1930s" is kind of right, kind of wrong. The "white flight" was the rich (who happened to be white) moving out of the city because cities were polluted, dirty, and full of crime (that's how things were). Streetcars and other rail-based systems enabled this. Even by your own words, then, you affirm that your beloved streetcars enabled white flight, which you also accused your hated freeways of doing.

Oh, so the crowded slum immigrant neighborhoods in the east never existed. I've been taught a lie!

Good advice, maybe you should try it yourself sometime. - Clearly by listening to one radio show, you become an expert on the subject. We all bow down to your supreme knowledge.

I still hold to my "Highway 35" extension idea. If executed correctly (it should be sunken, but not tunneled), it could dramatically not only take congested traffic off of the Pierce but also the downtown highways altogether.

OK, I'm pretty sure this is going nowhere. Like your "Remove the Pierce Elevated at any cost" rants, you downplay real causes of what created the problem, you ignore the fact that when the problem was already attempted to fix didn't work, you championed proposed government "re-integration" policies even though previous efforts have been disastrous and worsened the problem, and accused someone of being a racist when they pointed out some obvious flaws of the proposed program. There is no reason to waste my time to someone who continues to scream nonsense that redlining was the sole reason of the race riots and believes some government programs will make everything better.

Where did the five "Budget Stores" go to? I'm guessing they're REALLY old stores, like 1940s era Weingarten's.

Did we switch minds here? I thought YOU were saying that the 1960s riots were caused by redlining. Again, please tell me how I'm wrong. That's not fixing the problem. Public housing tends to keep people poor, and even with food assistance, recipients often sell it off or otherwise abuse it and let their kids go hungry. I'm not indifferent to poor areas. The biggest problem there is a majority of kids without fathers, and all of them are living in urban areas, where regulation, high taxes, and other factors keep them living "on the plantation". I especially like your patting yourself on the back for going to (at least purporting you go to) neighborhoods, thinking it somehow gives you privilege on the things to talk about.

Actually, your answer already came with the Community Reinvestment Act which sought to reverse the redlining policies in several aspects. Instead, they not only failed to fix the problem but ended up being the cause of a major recession. Go go government policies!

So, why didn't we see things like race riots in the 1930s like in the 1960s? Didn't say that desegregation was wrong, it's just that the government had no idea how to handle it. Ah, playing the old "You must be a RACIST!" card that white liberals play when they run out of arguments. The de-segregation policies of the 1960s did do a lot of good: I'm glad that people of all races have the same opprotunities to use facilities that were limited if not right prohibited years ago...but in many ways, they made the problem worse by widening the gap. And how exactly is HUD going to "fix" the problem now? More social engineering and regulation? More public housing projects?

No, they're really not. They're separate cities, much like Dallas and Fort Worth (except on a far smaller scale). Bryan tended to get more of the short end of the stick, but various city policies kept Bryan down, leading to College Station being a more favorable place for new residents to live. Bryan's total population also never decreased, it increased, albeit slowly. College Station is not some overgrown suburb: as the university was out in the middle of nowhere and miles away from Bryan, it sprung up to provide commercial services and residences for those who lived and worked at A&M. Also, "white flight" didn't start until after desegregation was started. While it was a good and noble effort, many government efforts at that time (i.e. bussing kids across town) only made the problem worse instead. It's what they say about government. Who knows what further "integration" they wanted to try.

Thanks! I tended to ignore the "Apple Denstists" results because they appeared to be in other locations around Bellaire, which, of course, they are.

Part of the problem, I think is the the fact that the Pierce Elevated has too much traffic. The traffic, especially in rush times, undoubtedly causes more noise and traffic. My solution is to keep the Pierce Elevated but remove the traffic. Basically, in tamdem with actually building out TX-35 (Spur 5) to its full potential, is to extend it over Interstate 45 and up to the US-59 interchange, abandoning and replacing the railroad ROW east of EaDo. There will be new ramps connecting Interstate 45 to the highway (where 45 and 10 exit the part where they run parallel to each other). Signage directs through traffic to take the new 35 ramps and bypass downtown entirely. You'll still use the Pierce Elevated to access Allen Pkwy. and 288.

Arguably, while we're on the subject, I would say that it was LBJ that did the most damage with his "Great Society" programs. Here's a quote for you that he said on record: "I'll have those n****** voting Democratic for the next 200 years." He was in office from 1963 to 1968. Hey, guess when the race riots happened? That's right, during LBJ's tenure. You're evading the question, as you desperately want to avoid facing the fact, nay, even possibility that your prized report is wrong.

Fixed it for ya. By the way, you never answered my question. Is the 9/11 Commission Report also a true, unadulterated report of what really happened? If no, then there's going to be obvious errors in your Kerner Commission as well which you refuse to address. If yes, then you're perhaps too trusting of information.

As I expected, your "retort" was nothing more than a copied and pasted chunk from the SAME INTERVIEW YOU ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE FIRST POST. The Kerner Commission had all sorts of flaws, and these "commission reports" are often flawed anyway. The 9/11 Commission Report, likewise took a bunch of criticism and had flaws in it as well. Do you agree with the latter?

Yes indeed. It's a somewhat different corridor now...the Rise at Northgate is complete with a CVS on the lower level (two other spaces are empty, one of which has been leased by Great Wraps). Over at Legacy Point, about 2/3 of the center was demolished (including the old Albertsons), and a huge new apartment building was built. University Apartments will be turned into "Century Square" and sealed off. It looks like the old apartments are going through abatement procedures. Northpoint Crossing already has a few structures up but not anywhere close to being done. The St. Mary's Catholic Church is going through an expansion as well, planning a huge new cathedral/sanctuary on the current Mud Lot area (which was converted to paved parking lot some years ago), as well as tearing down the Gleissner Hall Apartments (French Quarter Apartments) for a massive parking garage with retail below.

We are talking about one that sat on Main and Capitol, catty-corner to the Rice Hotel/Rice Lofts.

I've looked into it. AppleTree had 94 stores in 1991. After the bankruptcies and a few sell-offs, they had 75. Somewhere between summer 1992 and November 1993, they went down to 49. So the Federal Road store is one of the "anonymous stores" I can't find record for. Worse, these 26 stores aren't necessarily all in the Houston area. It seems there was a second store in the Waco area as well.