Houston’s booming. But hey, so is Huntsville, Alabama!

Daniel Gross has a new piece in Slate on the economic boomtown that is Houston: In May, the unemployment rate in the nation’s sixth-largest metropolitan area was a measly 3.8 percent. In the past year, Houston-based companies, which include 26 Fortune 500 firms, added 71,000 jobs to their payrolls. The local United Way closed out [...]