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Event promotes and facilitates the responsible recycling of end-of-life and surplus electronics HOUSTON, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Recycling Systems (CRS), a leader in IT Asset Management and Electronics Recycling, announced today it will hold a free electronics collection event in Harris County, TX. The event will be at Reliant Park, McNee/Purple Lots 31 & 32, Houston, TX 77054. Businesses and Households are welcome to drop off all their electronics--working and...
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Harris County, Texas, has among the highest number of commuters coming from another county in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today in new estimates released from the American Community Survey. Nationally, 27.4 percent of workers commute outside the county where they live. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130305/DC71074-INFO ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO ) Among workers in...
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RELM Wireless Corporation (NYSE MKT: RWC) today announced that it has entered into a master agreement with Harris County, Texas (Houston) to provide public safety P25 subscriber radios for operation on the county's TXWARN radio system. RELM is one of only three companies that received master agreements. The maximum total value of the master agreements is $1 million for all suppliers; RELM's agreement has a one-year base period...
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC, an alliance of 119 academic medical centers and 283 of their affiliated hospital organizations, announces that Harris Health System of Harris County, Texas, has become UHC's newest member. "We are pleased about our collaboration with UHC," said David S. Lopez, president and chief executive officer of Harris Health System. "As a health system dedicated to providing the highest quality patient-centered health care, we look forward to working...
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RELM Wireless Corporation (NYSE MKT: RWC) today announced that it has received an order from Harris County, Texas (Houston) totaling approximately $2.0 million. The county is purchasing P25 digital 800MHz portable radios (KNG P800) with trunking. The order also includes related accessories and features. The radios will be deployed for use by county law enforcement professionals. It is anticipated that the order will be fulfilled...
One of America’s most automobile-dependent large cities may be heading into a new era, according to the 31st annual Kinder Houston Area Survey conducted by Rice University. Among the findings in this year’s survey: Houstonians support mass transit, feel better about the economy and say relations between ethnic groups are better than ever. The survey results were released today at a luncheon hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership and Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research,...
Single Mother and Corporate Giant Face-off in Courtroom Over Black Mold Ordeal Houston, Texas (PRWEB) March 13, 2012 Mary Kay Williams, a single mother of three raising a special needs child, faces the powerful legal team of Sears, Roebuck and Co. in a Harris County, Texas courtroom this April (Cause No. 2009-12785). According to court documents, Sears admits negligently installing vinyl siding on her home in 1992; a mistake that Ms. Williams claims created a severe black mold...
HOUSTON, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan and the Houston complex commercial litigation law firm of Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing, P.C. successfully represented Harris County in a case developed by the Harris County Pollution Control Services Department (HCPCS) against Shell Chemical L.P. that resulted in a $500,000 payment to the county, and a mandate that Shell provide Harris County with actual notice of future air pollution events. The...
'Houston is where much of the American story is being written'Despite economic anxiety and concern for the future of the country, most Houstonians perceive an improving quality of life locally and 90 percent believe that Houston is a better place to live than most other metropolitan areas, according to the 30th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey conducted by Rice University. The findings were released April 20 during a luncheon hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership and Rice's Kinder...
Researchers analyze decade's worth of GPS data for studyA large section of northwestern Harris County "“ particularly the Jersey Village area "“ is sinking rapidly, according to a University of Houston (UH) geologist who has analyzed GPS data measuring ground elevation in the Houston area.Some points in Jersey Village are subsiding by up to 5.5 centimeters (about 2 inches) a year, said Shuhab Khan, an associate professor of geology at UH. Khan, along with UH geology professor Kevin Burke...
