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Tuesday's Rain Adds Urgency To Campaign In Low-income Areas - Houston Chronicle
damaged roofs became a focus of increasing concern tuesday as residents waiting for tarps or permanent repairs watched water leaking into their homes during the houston area's first major rainfall since the day after hurricane ike. city-funded ...
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Plant's Chemical Odors Worry S.e. Houston Neighbors
residents of a southeast houston neighborhood voiced complaints about odors coming from a nearby waste processing facility and accused the company of intimidation.
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Assisted Living Homes Make It Happen After The Storm
glen bradford had packed his bags sept. 10, two days before hurricane ike blasted houston and atascocita and the rosemont assisted living home where he is the executive director.
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Houston Paying A Heavy Cost For Power Outages - Houston Chronicle
power outages that darkened parts of houston for more than two weeks after hurricane ike were more than just an inconvenience. for many homeowners and business owners, they were also a significant financial burden. the cost of the outages could ...
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Report: Ike Costs Houston $6 Billion - United Press International
houston, oct. 5 (upi) -- power outages that kept parts of houston in the dark for more than two weeks after hurricane ike could cost billions of dollars, a newspaper analysis shows. the houston chronicle reported sunday the bill could surpass $6 ...
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Rain Adds Urgency To Roof Repairs In Low-income Areas
damaged roofs became a focus of increasing concern tuesday as residents waiting for tarps or permanent repairs watched water leaking into their homes during the houston area's first major rainfall since the day after hurricane ike.
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Homeowner Continues Battle With Lennar Homes, Inc.
it’s been more than a month since jeryl bennett gave representatives from lennar homes, inc. 30 days to buy back her house or end up in court. bennett said since then, nothing has been resolved.
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Plunge In Markets Brings Another Kind Of Depression - Los Angeles Times
"if a person feels stressed about one thing they feel stressed about everything. it's a snowball effect," said santa monica psychologist and american psychological assn. representative elaine rodino. the study was conducted before the last big ...
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Builders In Non-traditional Tile Markets Are Converting Asphalt ... - Market Wire
irvine, ca--(marketwire - october 2, 2008) - the use of concrete roof tile is standard practice in the sunbelt areas of the u.s., but in most areas of the u.s. asphalt shingles are still the most common roofing material. this trend is changing ...
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City Of Houston Denies Request For Kirby Drive Documents
the city of houston has refused to turn over documents requested by a resident concerning the reconfiguration of a block of land along kirby drive that would open the way for a massive commercial development.
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Crews Fan Out In Texas To Assess Ike's Wrath
houston — rescue crews in high-wheel trucks, helicopters and boats ventured out to pluck people from their homes saturday in an all-out search for thousands of texans who stubbornly stayed behind overnight to face hurricane ike.
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Houston Wire & Cable Company Reports Impact Of 2008 Hurricane Season - Msn Moneycentral
houston, oct. 2, 2008 (globe newswire) -- houston wire & cable company (nasdaq:hwcc) announced today that it expects earnings for the third quarter of 2008 to be negatively impacted due to the effects of the 2008 hurricane season. the company ...
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Fischer Homes Buys Up Area Beazer Lots - Dayton Business Journal
homebuilders get creative to get buyers interested vein vanity boosting vascular centers first-time homebuyer perk might jump-start market ohio state lands grant to set up materials research center beazer homes settles sec investigation; company ...
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Service Corp. Withdraws Offer To Buy Stewart
(ap:houston) service corporation international, which operates funeral homes and cemeteries, said tuesday it has withdrawn its offer to buy competitor stewart enterprises inc.
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Houston Area Housing Market Contracts Further In August
property sales across the greater houston area suffered the biggest year-to-year decline ever in august, according to statistics released by the houston association of realtors (har).
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Houston Fast 100 Pictures - Houston Business Journal
bryan emerson, center, president, starlight investments llc, accepts his company’s award from dave kerr, left, manager, business banking, whitney national bank, and antonio grijalva, ceo and co-founder, g&a partners inc. kim coffman greg bloh ...
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Housing Market Here Remains Strong - Ktrk
houston (ktrk) -- according to area realtors, houston's housing market has remained healthy, despite the mortgage mess around the country. but that could be changing with the economic downturn. healthy is a relative term, healthy in relation to ...
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2 Houston Homes Damaged After Fire
two people are safe after an overnight fire that spread to two homes on manitou at banner in northeast houston friday.
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Pets Displaced By Ike Go To Minnesota
houston -- more than 100 pets that were displaced during hurricane ike will find new homes in minnesota, kprc local 2 reported tuesday. the harris county public health and environmental services department struck a deal with the animal humane society in minnesota.
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Horizon Wind Energy Inaugurates Its 13th Wind Farm In The U.s. - Forbes
nation's third-largest wind-power company begins operations at the rattlesnake road wind farm in oregon houston, oct. 2 /prnewswire/ -- horizon wind energy, llc, a leading wind energy company, owned by edp renovaveis, the 4th largest wind energy ...
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