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...Number of homicides committed in Houston in 2006, a 12-year high and a 13.5% increase over...
...Jump in Houston's 2006 population, due largely to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Houston's mayor cited the influx as a major reason for the crime surge...
...Sources: Houston Chronicle (2); USA Today...
...Angeles and Sacramento, hotel workers have recently won contracts by taking to the streets and going on strike. In Houston, Latino immigrant janitors went on strike in late October for a month, blocking downtown traffic until they won an agreement between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and five major cleaning companies for higher wages, medical benefits, paid vacation and more hours. "We're building a much broader movement," says Stephen Lerner, director of the SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign. "The union writes, talks and acts in the language and culture of the people we're organizing...
...scrubby ranchland 20 miles southwest of Abilene. Once a rowdy frontier cattle town, Abilene now touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner - but have chosen to live the nostalgic "ranch lifestyle" outside the city, and that's where old Texas and new are colliding...