Morning Roundup: Wheres the beach?
Good morning, Houston. You might not remember it, but many local beaches used to be much wider than they are now — and soon, they’ll be that wide again, thanks to a multimillion-dollar restoration project that’s going to be announced today. The project will widen three miles of eroded beaches west of the Seawall in Galveston, Sylvan Beach in La Porte and other beaches in Surfside; the goal is to combat the erosion that’s causing between 10 and 30 feet of beach to disappear each year in some places. >> A second chance at justice?: Nineteen Texas prison inmates were offered the opportunity to have a Harris County-appointed lawyer review their cases Monday, making those the first of 180 cases that will be double checked because of potentially shoddy analysis at the HPD crime lab. A panel of three lawyers will review the cases; all inmates have to do is agree to be part of the probe. “They were a little suspicious at first, but most of them were quickly on board once they realized what we
