Flat and hot for much of the year... also ugly and dangerously polluted.

Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice’s Kinder Institute, on the problem with outsiders’ perception of Houston.

October 9, 2013 AT 10:00 AM

Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice’s Kinder Institute, on the problem with outsiders’ perception of Houston.

Source: Governing

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