Renew Houston Updates
Group seeks support for flood-protection efforts
An influential group of engineers is laying the groundwork for a public campaign to spend billions of local tax dollars to protect Houston from the kind of intense flooding that has damaged property, disrupted transportation and even cost lives.
Boosters of the idea, including at least four of Mayor Annise Parker's closest public works advisers, have formed a nonprofit committee, Renew Houston, that is seeking to raise up to $1 million for the education effort... > read more







