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Tax Assessor-Collector Ann Harris Bennett Democratic Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 43.7% 37.4% 27.6% 11.3% US 290.svg U.S Highway 290 a.k.a - Northwest Freeway. . 1 Arts and theatre Houston with a customer base of more than 3 million is AT&T's largest service city the city's telecommunications infrastructure completes more than 70 million Houston telephone connections daily the Texas Public Utilities Commission has certified more than 400 additional local exchange carriers to provide service statewide or specifically within Houston More than 1,600 interexchange carriers have registered with the commission to provide long distance service, Other A large stone complex several stories high Two crosses top the structures in the foreground; 4.1 City and county government The Lyric Centre sits in the heart of the Theater District just across the street from the Wortham Center and adjacent to the Alley Theatre the black-and-white striped office building houses dozens of law firms but the block on which the tower sits is perhaps best known for the giant cellist playing outside. It is the work of sculptor David Addickes who also created the statue of Sam Houston outside Huntsville Texas. Houston Texas Business Directory 8 See also Skyline in 1971 after completion of One Shell Plaza The Spanish introduced European livestock including cattle horses and mules to Texas as early as the 1690s. These herds grazed heavily on the native grasses allowing mesquite which was native to the lower Texas coast to spread inland Spanish farmers also introduced tilling and irrigation to the land further changing the landscape. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl dealt a double blow to the state's economy which had significantly improved since the Civil War Migrants abandoned the worst hit sections of Texas during the Dust Bowl years Especially from this period on blacks left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape the oppression of segregation in 1940 Texas was 74 percent Anglo 14.4 percent black and 11.5 percent Hispanic. 9.2 Municipal Fire/EMS Services, Most of the region consists of the Piney Woods ecoregion and East Texas can sometimes be reduced to include only the Piney Woods. At the fringes towards Central Texas the forests expand outward toward sparser trees and eventually into open plains, Public School Lunch The Rice Hotel built in 1912 on the former site of the old Capitol building of the Republic of Texas was restored in 1998 after years of standing unused the original building was razed in 1881 by Colonel A Groesbeck who subsequently erected a five-story hotel named the Capitol Hotel. William Marsh Rice the founder of Rice University purchased the building in 1883 added a five-story annex and renamed it the Rice Hotel. Rice University then sold the building in 1911 to Jesse Jones who demolished it and built a 17-story structure on the site the new Rice Hotel building opened on May 17 1913 This historic hotel now serves as an apartment building known as the Rice Lofts designed by Page Southerland Page. .

. ; . . . On August 19 1995 a scheduled preseason game between the Oilers and the San Diego Chargers had to be canceled due to the dilapidated condition of the playing field Oilers owner Bud Adams demanded a new stadium but the city of Houston refused to fund it After years of threats Adams moved the team to Tennessee after the 1996 season. Around that time the Astros also threatened to leave the city unless a new ballpark was built the retractable-roofed Enron Field (now known as Minute Maid Park) opened for the 2000 season in downtown Houston, Main article: Climate of Texas, 38 Cameron International 375 Houston Texas Business Directory. 4.3 Texas Legislature the civilizations of Mesoamerica centered south of Texas the influence of Teotihuacan in northern Mexico peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries, Robert Altman's 1970 comedy film Brewster McCloud is set at the Astrodome: the eponymous hero is an eccentric young man who lives at the stadium.