Riot, the bitcoin mining company that made over $30 million for cutting energy usage in August, pocketed another $2.5 million from the state of Texas for cutting energy use in September. 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-bitcoin-company-riot-18410949.php

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 The cost of everything has gone up. But you know what's always free? Hanging out by the water and watching a really big boat go by.

https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/best-ship-spotting-galveston-18406760.php

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 Texas A&M student body president Hudson Kraus has been impeached and removed from office after he altered a job description that fit his brother's qualifications. 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-a-m-student-president-impeached-18396607.php

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 JD Doyle has spent the last decade chronicling Houston's queer stories. His upcoming new memoir tells the story of a 1981 road trip he took through the South as a newly out gay man.

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-lgbtq-history-doyle-18393931.php

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 Rafael Gutierrez-Galvan of Alamo, Texas met with a man who said he was interested in purchasing a baby jaguar. The buyer turned out to be an undercover agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working an operation to apprehend exotic animal traffickers.

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/jaguar-arrested-exotic-18393944.php

#news #texas #houston #wildlife #nature

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 It's been one of the most punishing summers in recent memory for Houston. According to Space City Weather, relief may finally be within reach.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-weather-texas-18394102.php

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 Self-driving Cruise cars are already causing traffic jams in Houston before they've even begun taking on passengers: 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/houston-cruise-self-driving-cars-18390306.php

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 Books with butts are allowed back in a Houston-area school district after 14 titles were removed, including 'No, David!' 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/katy-isd-books-banned-butt-18389450.php

#news #texas #houston #politics #books

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 A tool released at the COP27 climate conference last November found that the Dallas-Fort Worth area ranks third globally in greenhouse emissions from cars. 

The DFW area has nearly 11,500 miles of roadway and about 77.5 million total miles logged by area drivers daily.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/dallas-pollution-emissions-texas-18389243.php

#news #texas #houston #climate #environment 

 Tesla says it wants to become one of the largest employers in Central Texas as it plans to ramp up production of the Cybertruck: 

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/tesla-hiring-texas-18383422.php

#news #texas #houston #tech #business 

 'Tennis ball-sized hail' shattered windows, damaged homes and destroyed almost the entire inventory of a Kia dealership as severe storms swept through the Austin-area. 

https://www.chron.com/weather/article/texas-hail-storm-round-rock-18387260.php

#news #texas #houston #weather 

 H-E-B is now selling its own 10-foot-tall Halloween skeleton, so you can make it fight your Home Depot 12-foot-tall Halloween skeleton. 

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/heb-giant-skeleton-18361979.php

#news #texas #houston #funny #halloween

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 A new report from our friends at Houston Public Media found that transit riders in Houston were at risk of heat-related illness due to bus stops that provided inadequate shelter. 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-metro-bus-stop-heat-18353365.php

#news #texas #houston #transit

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 Rose thought the lord was blessing her with a new home after Hurricane Harvey destroyed hers. She died before she could see it. Years later, her son is still living in the house that is so damaged the city flagged it for complete demolition. 

This is the story of how Texas failed Houston homeowners after Harvey.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-hurricane-harvey-texas-18350057.php

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 While ERCOT begged Texans to conserve power, the state paid $31 million to Riot, a bitcoin miner, to cut its energy use, leading to record profits for the company. 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-bitcoin-riot-ercot-grid-energy-18352398.php

#news #texas #houston #politics #energy

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 Texas pitched itself to tech companies and their workers as a low-tax, low-regulation state. But for low and middle income earners, the picture isn't as rosy.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-pay-more-taxes-than-californians-17400644.php

#news #texas #politics #houston #california

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