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  1. From our magazine: “[Houston's] the city of haters, you know. If you can win over the folks here, shit, I can go anywhere—LA, New York, Chicago. It doesn’t matter because if you can win over a hater in Houston, you can win over the world.” texasobserver.org/kam-franklin

    #Houston #GulfCoast #music #culture #Texas

  2. From our magazine: “[Houston's] the city of haters, you know. If you can win over the folks here, shit, I can go anywhere—LA, New York, Chicago. It doesn’t matter because if you can win over a hater in Houston, you can win over the world.” texasobserver.org/kam-franklin

    #Houston #GulfCoast #music #culture #Texas

  3. Top story: In #Houston, the mayor has near-autocratic power the likes of which other "strong-mayor" cities like NY or LA can only dream of, yet its politics are stultifying, its outcomes unremarkable.

    Bayou City's mayor is running out of time ... texasobserver.org/john-whitmir

    #GulfCoast #politics #news #Texas

  4. This week's top story: John Whitmire is a nominally “strong” mayor with a relatively meager voter mandate, presiding over a once-mighty fiefdom in decline.

    How, then, did the strongest mayor in America become so weak? texasobserver.org/john-whitmir

    #Houston #news #GulfCoast #Texas #politics