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Demystifying Private Investigators: Facts About Detectives

There is something intriguing about Houston private investigators like Gradoni & Associates. Perhaps it is because Hollywood has glorified private investigators, depicting them as superheroes who spend countless hours tracking down bad guys, …

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Texas DWI Laws & The Open Container Statute

The Open Container Statute In Texas, DWI laws state that it's illegal to have an open container of alcohol in a vehicle at any time. It doesn't matter if it's the driver or a passenger, or whether the vehicle is in transit at the time. It is still a …

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A General Look at Auto Accidents in Texas

The state of Texas is the second largest in the U.S.behind Alaska in the North West and has an area the size of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2). As of 2015 Texas had about 21.4 million vehicles & ranks 40th on vehicle per 1000 people at 720 …

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Microsoft Is Testing Azure IoT Platform From The Stratosphere March 9, 2016
Microsoft is attempting to pull off a rare feat that may be hard for its competitors to emulate. The team at Microsoft Research is deploying a balloon in the stratosphere loaded with sensors and cameras, which is connected to the Azure IoT platform. The balloon will send real-time telemetry along […]
Janakiram MSV, Contributor
Intuit Announces Sale Of QuickBase Low-Code Platform March 8, 2016
Low-code platforms like QuickBase empower a wide range of people with little to no programming skills â€“ known as â€˜citizen developersâ€™ â€“ to build enterprise-class applications that run on mobile, desktop, or web. Such applications can meet the needs of the business quickly and efficiently, and can be an important part of how transformed IT […]
Jason Bloomberg, Subscriber

Sex With Strangers Sizzles and (Thought) Provokes at Stages May 25, 2019
Two authors on opposite sides of a generational and digital divide navigate a relationship in Laura Eason's two-hander Sex With Strangers, now playing at Stages Repertory Theatre.
Natalie de la Garza
Love Hurts in Sam Shepard's A Lie Of The Mind May 25, 2019
In explaining to her daughter Sally, why she’s allowing Jake, her unstable and historically violent son to return home, Lorraine spits out with dismissiveness, “He won’t hurt us, we’re family.” Under other circumstances, we may have hope that Lorraine is correct, but given that this is a Sam Shepard play,...
Jessica Goldman
Breaking Restaurant News: The Pass and Provisions is Closing May 24, 2019
The Pass and Provisions, 807 Taft, will have its last day of service tomorrow, May 25. The dual concept restaurant, with The Pass being the fine-dining, tasting menu side and Provisions being its more casual sister with pizzas and pastas, opened in 2012. Chefs Terrence Gallivan and Seth Siegel-Gardner brought...
Lorretta Ruggiero