! Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838, Religious affiliation in Texas (2014), Houston Not-For-Profit News is a subsidiary of World Internet News Cooperative It is one of Houston's few non-profit news sources which receives no money from advertising it totes itself as being unbiased with the ability to be more objective than the commercial news media due to the fact that it is not tied to advertisers.[citation needed] Stories covered by the cooperative range from consumer rights to corporate welfare to working-class issues Their work has also been nominated for a Robert F Kennedy Memorial journalism award.[citation needed]. ! The Uptown District located on Interstate 610 West (referred to locally as the "West Loop") between U.S Highway 59 and Interstate 10 boomed along with Houston during the 1970s and early 1980s During that time the area grew from farm land in the late 1960s to a collection of high-rise office buildings residential properties and retail establishments including the Houston Galleria the area is an example of what architectural theorists call the edge city in the late 1990s Uptown Houston saw construction of many mid- and high-rise residential buildings of the tallest being about 30 stories. .
La Salle's colonization expedition left France on July 24 1684 and soon lost one of its supply ships to Spanish privateers a combination of inaccurate maps La Salle's previous miscalculation of the latitude of the mouth of the Mississippi River and overcorrecting for the Gulf currents led the ships to be unable to find the Mississippi. Instead they landed at Matagorda Bay in early 1685 400 miles (644 km) west of the Mississippi in February the colonists constructed Fort Saint Louis, 1.4 Weather Klein Urrea reached Matamoros on January 31 a committed federalist himself he soon convinced other federalists in the area that the Texians' ultimate goal was secession and their attempt to spark a federalist revolt in Matamoros was just a method of diverting attention from themselves. Mexican double agents continued to assure Johnson and Grant that they would be able to take Matamoros easily. While Johnson waited in San Patricio with a small group of men Grant and between 26 and 53 others roamed the area between the Nueces River and Matamoros. Although they were ostensibly searching for more horses it is likely Grant was also attempting to contact his sources in Matamoros to further coordinate an attack, Presidential elections results League City (mostly in Galveston County). . Main article: Crime in Houston, 4.2 Difficulties with the Native Americans, 3.9 Automobile ownership Houston Texas Business Directory. .
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