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Scenic Woods, Houston, Texas
Scenic Woods is a neighborhood located in northeast Houston, Texas, United States,Sewer project on tap for Scenic Woods area " ''Houston Chronicle''. June 14, 2001. Retrieved on July 16, 2013. near Homestead Road and Parker Road. The community is populated by working class African Americans. The community is a quiet family oriented place with manicured lawns and well maintained homes. Scenic Woods is a traditionally African-American neighborhood. Fontaine Place adjoins Scenic Woods. History In 2001 Kinsel Industries Inc. of Houston won the contract for a sewer upgrade project in the Scenic Woods area with a low bid of $1.8 million. It was to perform manhole repairs and overhaul 6 inch through 12 inch sanitary sewer l ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Forest High School
North Forest High School (NFHS) is a secondary school located in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD); it was a part of the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD) until the district closed on July 1, 2013. History Founded in 2008 as a consolidation of Forest Brook High School at 7525 Tidwell Road and M. B. Smiley High School on Mesa Drive, the school was originally located on the campus of the former Forest Brook High School.Mellon, Ericka.North Forest picks name for merged school / Forest Brook, Smiley students now North Forest High BulldogsArchive. ''Houston Chronicle''. Tuesday May 20, 2008. B2. Retrieved August 16, 2009. The Smiley campus was built in 1953, the Oak Village campus was built in 1967, and the Forest Brook campus was built in 1972. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Girls Finish First
Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings *Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect * Unhealthy, or counter to well-being *Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored trolley car * Bank account debits tax, an Australian tax * Bcl-2-associated death promoter, a pro-apoptotic protein * Team B.A.D., a professional wrestling tag team Films * ''Andy Warhol's Bad'', a 1977 film * ''Bad'', an unfinished film by Theo van Gogh * ''Bad'' (2025 film), an Indian Kannada-language action thriller film Music Performers * B. A. D., the Taiwanese boy band, who formed in 1998 * Big Audio Dynamite, Mick Jones' post-Clash band, from London * Royce da 5'9", the American rapper known as Bad, in the group Bad Meets Evil Albums * ''Bad'' (album), a 1987 album by Michael Jackson * ''BAD'', or '' Bigger and Deffer'', the second album by LL Cool J, 1987 Songs * "Bad" (U2 song), 1984 * "Bad" (Michael Jackson song), 1987 * "Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelia Dansby Harvey
Shelia may refer to: * Shelia Burrell (born 1972), retired American heptathlete * Shelia Conover (born 1963), American sprint canoeist * Shelia Eddy (born 1995), American convicted of murder * Shelia Goss (born 1968), American author, freelance writer, and screenwriter * Shelia Guberman (born 1930), Russian scientist in computer science, nuclear physics, geology, geophysics, medicine, and perception * Shelia Jordan, the Mayor of Galway from 1977 to 1978 * Shelia P. Moses, African-American writer whose subjects include comedian Dick Gregory and Buddy Bush See also * Murtaz Shelia (born 1969), former football defender who was capped 29 times for Georgia * Sheila, a feminine given name {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YMCA
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams (philanthropist), George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association. The organisation's stated aim is to put Christian values into practice by developing a healthy body, mind, and spirit. From its inception, YMCA grew rapidly, ultimately becoming a worldwide movement founded on the principles of muscular Christianity. Local YMCAs deliver projects and services focused on youth development through a wide variety of youth activities, including providing athletic facilities, holding classes for a wide variety of skills, promoting Christianity, and humanitarian work. YMCA is a non-governmental federation, with each independent local YMCA affiliated with its national or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris County, Texas
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, and was estimated to be 5,009,302 in 2024, making it the List of counties in Texas, most populous county in Texas and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the List of municipalities in Texas, most populous city in Texas and the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the United States. The county was founded on December 22, 1836 and organized on March 10, 1837. It is named for John Richardson Harris, who founded the town of Harrisburg, Houston, Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou in 1826. It contains over 16.01% of the state's population. Harris County is included in the nine-county Greater Houston, Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area, which is the Metropolitan statistical area, fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Transit Administration
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transportation systems. The FTA is one of ten modal administrations within the DOT. Headed by an Administrator who is appointed by the President of the United States, the FTA functions through Washington, D.C. headquarters office and ten regional offices which assist transit agencies in all states, the District of Columbia, and the territories. Until 1991, it was known as the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA). Public transportation includes buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, monorail, passenger ferry boats, trolleys, inclined railways, and people movers. The federal government, through the FTA, provides financial assistance to develop new transit systems and improve, maintain, and operate existing systems. The FTA oversees grants to state and local transit providers, primari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
METRO (Houston)
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) is a major public transportation agency based in Houston, Texas, United States. It operates bus, light rail, bus rapid transit, HOV and HOT lanes, and paratransit service (under the name METROLift) in the city as well as most of Harris County. It also operates bus service to two cities in Fort Bend County, and to Conroe in Montgomery County. The Metro headquarters are in the Lee P. Brown Administration Building in Downtown Houston. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History The Texas State Legislature authorized the creation of local transit authorities in 1973. In 1978, Houston-area voters created Metro and approved a one-cent sales tax to support its operations. Metro opened for business in January 1979, taking over the bus service owned by the City of Houston known as HouTran. HouTran was plagued by outdated equipment, infrequent service and a route structure which failed to accou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver Harbor
Denver Harbor was an American alternative rock band, based in San Diego, California. The band was formed in 2002 by former Fenix TX members Will Salazar and Chris Lewis, along with F.O.N. members Aaron Rubin and Ilan Rubin. After self-releasing their debut Extended play, EP ''Extended Play (Denver Harbor EP), Extended Play'' in 2003, they were temporarily signed to Universal Records, who released their 2004 full-length album ''Scenic (album), Scenic''. History In 2002, after breaking up their band of seven years due to musical differences, Fenix TX singer/guitarist Will Salazar and the remaining three Fenix TX members went separate ways. While Salazar wanted to keep the band going (but was not legally allowed to), bassist Adam Lewis and drummer Damon DeLaPaz decided to extend their side-project Big Black Boat, which later changed its name to ChChCh HaHaHa and ultimately became the band I Sing the Body Electric. Guitarist Chris Lewis was caught in between, as he was asked to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmere Gardens
Kashmere Gardens is a historically African-American neighborhood in the northern 610 Loop area in Houston, Texas, United States. A group of single-family houses, many of which have large lots, Kashmere Gardens is between an industrial area and a rail corridor.Madere, M.Kashmere Gardens enjoys resurgence in home values" ''Houston Chronicle''. May 9, 2006. Retrieved on January 29, 2009. the Kashmere Gardens Super Neighborhood #52 had about 10,005 people. History The City of Houston annexed it in the 1940s. Between 1990 and 2000 the Hispanic population of Kashmere Gardens increased from around 19% of the population to around 31% as Hispanics in the Houston area moved into majority black neighborhoods. In the same period, the black population of the Kashmere area declined by 1,711 as majority African-American neighborhoods in Houston had declines in their black populations. A study by the Evert Crawford of Crawford Realty Advisors, in conjunction with the Institute for Regional F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Public Library
Houston Public Library is the public library system serving Houston, Texas, United States. History Houston Lyceum and the Carnegie Library The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1854. The lyceum was preceded by a Debate, debating society, a special-interest mechanics' lyceum, and a circulating library. The lyceum's library eventually split into a separate institution at the end of the 19th century. In 1892, William Marsh Rice, a Houston businessman and Philanthropy, philanthropist who later chartered Rice University, donated $200,000 for the construction of a free public library. The facility opened in 1895 and obtained its own building in 1904 with financial assistance from Andrew Carnegie. Betty Trapp Chapman wrote in ''The Houston Review'' that the city's women "were instrumental" in the library's establishment and that the educated women "had long recognized the need for a library to serve the community." Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Comptroller Of Public Accounts
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is an executive branch position created by the Texas Constitution. The comptroller is popularly elected every four years, and is primarily tasked with collecting all state tax revenue and estimating the amount of revenue that the Texas Legislature can spend each biennium. The current comptroller is Glenn Hegar, who took office on January 2, 2015. History The predecessor to the current comptroller's office started in 1846. The longest-serving Comptrollers in Texas history are Robert S. Calvert, who held the post for 26 consecutive years for an unprecedented twelve terms; George H. Sheppard, who served for 18 years over nine two-year terms; Bob Bullock, who served for 16 years for four four-year terms and later was notable as one of the most powerful Lieutenant Governors in Texas history (and the namesake for the state's official history museum) and current Comptroller Glenn Hegar holds the fourth longest-serving tenure with 10 years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
