DeMontrond -- will be there for all the world to see. Getting the Olympics here may serve at least one purpose: Maybe we can finally get rid of all the orange barrels that plague our freeways like so many mosquitoes. David Funderburk via Internet It is interesting that the state comptroller will base Olympic-related revenues on a comparison of actual tax revenues versus estimated revenues had the games not come here. A recent National Public Radio report on sales tax receipts for Dade County showed that they actually decreased during years that Miami hosted a Super Bowl.
I'm sure some politician could have estimated that they would have decreased more without this "sure thing" for bringing money into the area. It was another example of the kind of informative, investigative journalism that is so hard to find elsewhere in Houston. However, Atlanta does not have a light rail system, which typically runs at street level and goes no more than 30 or 40 mph. That city has a commuter rail system, which uses heavier track and equipment, and may travel as fast as 70 mph.
Hopefully, one of these days Houston may have one or the other, or perhaps even a combination of the two. William S. In an age when the media is often accused of misquoting, blowing stories out of proportion and spinning the truth beyond the point of recognition, the Houston Press hit a journalistic home run and got this story right.
Wendy Grossman obviously did her homework, as there were a few parts of the story that even I didn't know until I read her article.
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