Houston Group, The

• Techcess Group Named AMA Houston Marketer of the Year Best in Category Winner.

Awards event to be held March 12th at the Alley Theatre HOUSTON -- Techcess Group, an IT consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm, has b...

• Business Wire
• February 21, 2012

• Don't Mess with Houston, Texas: The Clean Air Act and State/Local Preemption*

This note argues that, in many situations, local government may be the level of government that can address air pollution problems most effectively. When a state agency fails to take sufficient action to protect local populations from air pollution, the local government may be the only entity that can take effective action. How far a city can go in regulating air pollution, however, remains an open question. This Note considers this question through the lens of BCCA Appeal Group v City of Houston. Part II examines the background of the Houston ordinance, in particular the City's growing discontent with the TCEQ enforcement system. Part III presents the legal arguments on both sides and suggests that the court will likely find that the ordinance is not preempted by state law. Part IV con...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 88 Nbr. 3, February 2010

• Transactions

BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL-Approved the sale of the Houston Astros from Drayton McLane to the ownership group led by Jim Crane. Approved Larry Baer as control person of the San Francisco Giants.

• Charleston Gazette
• November 18, 2011

• Principal Financial Group, Inc., Retirement, Insurance & Financial Services President, Dan Houston to Speak at the 2011 UBS Asset Gathering Conference.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: PFG) announces that Dan Houston, president - retirement, insurance & financial services wil...

• Business Wire
• March 14, 2011

• Houston, You Have Competition: ; Group in North Carolina Enters Contest to Send Private Rocket to the Moon

RALEIGH, N.C. - In the category of audacious goals, a team of Triangle business leaders and N.C. State faculty members has entered a worldwide contest to launch the first private rocket to the moon. Sponsored by Google and the X Prize Foundation of California, the contest offers $30 million in prize money to teams that can meet the following challenge:

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• June 09, 2008

• The Carson Group Wins Two Houston ADDY Awards.

HOUSTON -- The American Advertising Federation of Houston presented The Carson Group with two ADDY Awards at the 48th Annual AAF-Houston ADDY Awards o...

• Business Wire
• February 17, 2010

• Cair Asks Fbi to Probe Texas Mosque Arson As Hate Crime

HOUSTON, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX) has called on the FBI to investigate an apparent arson attack on a Houston mosque as a possible hate crime. Officials of the Madrasah Islamiah mosque say a group of male suspects smashed a window of the facility then doused a room with gasoline before setting it on fire around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Surveillance video shows the suspects with their faces covered. Damage was confined to one room. No injuries were reported.

• U.S. Newswire
• May 16, 2011

• The Letton-Hall Group of Houston.

The Letton-Hall Group of Houston has added Eric Toskey to its team of engineers. Toskey comes to the firm with skills that address the particular dema...

• Pipeline & Gas Journal
• Vol. 236 Nbr. 7, July 2009

• The LaSalle Group, Inc. Expands Alzheimer's Assisted Living Communities to the Houston Market with its 10th Texas Property.

Leading Real Estate Developer Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art Facility Dedicated Specifically to Alzheimer's and Memory Care in The Woodlands, Texas...

• Business Wire
• November 09, 2009

• Preparing for the new lease accounting.

... with the National Professional Standards Group of Grant Thornton LLP in Chicago. Rahul Gupta, CPA... Standards Group of Grant Thornton LLP in Houston. . ...

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 8, October 2010