Irma changed Houston, but Mimi Swartz wonders whether her city can accept this new reality.

The Morning News http://ift.tt/2xl3kPf

Houston’s can-do spirit saw all those people powering rescue boats and wielding crowbars. But the cockeyed optimism we’re so proud of has something in common with denial: things were good, so why mess with infrastructure improvements and the taxes needed to pay for them?

↩︎ Texas Monthly

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