Today’s Headlines

• Streetcar Project Got Scammed Out of $3.2 Million Through Email Phishing (El Paso Times)
• Kinder Study: Share of “Poor” Neighborhoods in Houston in 1980: 9%; in 2016: 39% (KHOU)
• City of Sugar Land Will Grow From 87,000 to 117,000 With Annexation of Sprawl MUDs (Houston Chron)
• City of Austin Adopts Age-Friendly Austin Plan With Focus on Improving Pedestrian Environment (KUT)
• Rep. Ron Simmons Tells High-Speed Rail Opponents That State Law Already Allows It (The Eagle)
• Houston Metro, Other Transit Agencies Give Free Rides Today and Election Day For You to Go Vote
• Bugg: Continuing 50-Year Strategy of Continuously Widening I-45 Will Work This Time (Houston Chron)
• Will Dallas City Hall Fix Streets or Pensions First? (Morning News)
• …Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Chose Pensions First — Time for the Paradigm Shift? (Houston Chron)

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