Legislative responses Comprising a total area of 637.4 square miles (1,651 km2) Houston is the eighth most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties) It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county parish or borough Though primarily in Harris County small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and the Woodlands, Some of the academic and research health institutions at the center include MD Anderson Cancer Center Baylor College of Medicine UT Health Science Center Memorial Hermann Hospital Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Children's Hospital and University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Main article: Causes of World War II; . Mainline Protestant 13 In 2016 Dr Robin Davidson announced that the office of the Poet Laureate was accepting submissions for an anthology of Houstonian's favorite poems the project was conceived as a local version of the national Favorite Poem Project that had been founded in 1997 by U.S Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky; Deep East Texas is a sub-region of East Texas According to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments the region consists of the following twelve counties: Angelina Houston Jasper Nacogdoches Newton Polk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Trinity and Tyler. .
. The University of Texas at Dallas 5.2 Water pollution 144 Mary Ann Perez Democratic 2016 Southern Pasadena far southeast Houston The University of Texas at Dallas. 115 Plains GP Holdings Alamo (41) 104, In 1980 a year of strong economic activity and robust competition in the grocery market prices in Houston's grocery stores were below the national average prices in grocery stores Houston's grocery price index averaged at 85.6 below the national average of 88.4 This means that for the 1982-1984 base period Houstonians paid $88.40 for an amount of food that would cost $100 according to the national average During the oil bust and the economic decline Houston's prices stayed even with the national average in 1983 Houston's grocery index increased from 96.8 to 99.4 and matched the national average of 99.1 As the city began to recover the prices began to edge upward When a recession in the U.S began and while Houston's economic growth slowed and continued the national price index fell below Houston's price index As of 1992 prices in Houston's grocery stores were higher than the national average; Houston's index averaged to be 137.3 and the national average was 132.3. ; In the 2014 Texas elections the Tea Party movement made large gains with numerous Tea Party favorites being elected into office including Dan Patrick as lieutenant governor Ken Paxton as attorney general in addition to numerous other candidates including conservative Republican Greg Abbott as governor. Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year In 1983 the Wells Fargo Bank Plaza was completed which became the second-tallest building in Houston and in Texas and the 11th-tallest in the country it was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates and supposedly resembles an abstracted dollar sign in plan From street level the building is 71 stories tall or 972 ft (296 m) tall it also extends four more stories below street level. 16.6 Gender and social history Thunderstorms strike Texas often especially the eastern and northern portions of the state Tornado Alley covers the northern section of Texas the state experiences the most tornadoes in the United States an average of 139 a year These strike most frequently in North Texas and the Panhandle. Tornadoes in Texas generally occur in the months of April May and June, Lindsey Nelson an announcer for the visiting New York Mets broadcast a game on April 28 1965 while perched in a gondola suspended from the roof above second base, See also: List of mammals of Texas List of birds of Texas List of reptiles of Texas and List of amphibians of Texas.
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