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Snow Covered Roads To Blame for Rollover Near Montrose MONTROSE A Delano man was hurt after rolling his vehicle Thursday morning. The incident happened around 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 12 and Calder Ave near Montrose. The Minnesota State Patrol says 48-year-old Kurtis Beck was heading west on Highway 12 when he lost control and rolled into the ditch. Get our free mobile app He was taken to North Memorial for non-life threatening injuries. The state patrol says snowy road conditions were a factor in the crash. ....
It snowed in Houston 60 years ago today FacebookTwitterEmail Snow blanketed Houston on this day in 1960. And then it didn t snow for another decade. The anniversary comes on the cusp of a potentially record-breaking cold snap, which is expected to bring varying forms of wintery precipitation to Southeast Texas. The primary threat for snow is Sunday through Monday, according to the National Weather Service. But if we take a look back to 1960, the white stuff made Houston look like a postcard. Traffic cops ushering drivers in snow-covered cars. Snowmen towering over their creators. It even snowed a few inches in Galveston, according to meteorologists. ....
The city’s strategy has recently moved away from approving housing on large tracts of inexpensive land and toward encouraging distribution of housing throughout the city. The need for more affordable housing however, is strong in most areas of town, Council Member Tiffany Thomas said. “What we were getting was concentrations of poverty,” said Thomas, who is the chair of city council’s Housing and Community Development Committee. “But the property value in all of our neighborhoods within the city is increasing.” A possible lifeline could come from the Montrose Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, which collects a portion of taxes levied in the area to use specifically in the area. It has projected it can spend close to $40 million toward affordable housing initiatives in its 30-year plan, but the TIRZ is still in the study phase to determine which actions it can take. ....
Editorial: Build on Houston s affordable housing successes. Don t take away the tools. FacebookTwitterEmail To understand just how welcome the new luxury apartment complex is that’s rising at the corner of West Dallas and Montrose, recall the fire that consumed the $50 million development at that site in 2014. Seconds before the five-story structure collapsed in flames, a construction worker stuck on the top floor swung himself like Spider-Man down to a lower balcony and then leapt off the railing into the arms of a waiting firefighter. A welder’s torch had apparently sparked the fire, but the dramatic scene captured on video of the dangling worker and the smoking wreckage begged for interpretation as a symbol for Houston’s explosive boom and bust cycle. For years, Houston had ridden high on oil and gas while the rest of America was mired in the hangover from the 2008 Great Recession. Across Houston, aging garden apartments came down fast to make wa ....