13 Houston billionaires make Forbes Richest People in America list.

Forbes Magazine: Houston Tops Our List Of America's Coolest Cities: Houston is known for many things: Oil, NASA, urban sprawl and business-friendly policies. But the Texas city deserves to be known for something else: coolness.
The Bayou City may not be the first place you associate with being hip or trendy. But Houston has something many other major cities don’t: jobs. With the local economy humming through the recession, Houston enjoyed 2.6% job growth last year and nearly 50,000 Americans flocked there in response — particularly young professionals. In fact, the median age of a Houston resident is a youthful 33. Read more>>>

 

Double-decker Airbus A380 flies first Houston flight.

Today marked Day One of Lufthansa's nonstop, daily Houston-Frankfurt service on the Airbus A380 - the world's largest passenger aircraft
The double-decker, 526-seat jet landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly before 2 p.m. from its inaugural flight from Germany. It is Texas' first A380 service. Read More>>>

A walk on the historical side: See what Houston looked like 100 years ago.

In this week's CultureMap Moment, Joel Luks explores a walking tour of The Heights, one of Houston's oldest neighborhoods. "This is a largely intact turn-of-the-century neighborhood," Jim Parsons, chairman of walking tours for Preservation Houston, tells Luks in the video below. "When you walk around the Heights you really do get a sense of what Houston would have looked like 100 years ago."

The architecture tour, organized by Preservation Houston, takes place at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. For more details, click here.

 Houston leading southern city for population growth. 

Houston remains as the leading southern city for population growth, a metric dominated by Texas cities, a new report shows. The city of Houston added 45,716 residents between April 2010 and July 2011, according to the Business Journals’ On Numbers analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for 6,125 cities, towns and villages across the South.

San Antonio, Austin and Dallas took the next three spots, with increases of 32,152, 30,221 and 25,413 residents, respectively.

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Houston's average pay increase beats nation's, survey shows.

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Forbes Magazine names Houston Texas the coolest city to live in the USA. Texas’ other major metros also made the list: Dallas ranked fourth; San Antonio, 11th; Fort Worth, 13th; and Austin, 19th. The No. 2 spot was taken by Washington, D.C., followed by Los Angeles.