Once again, Texas’ sprawling suburbs dominate the U.S. Census Bureau’s list of the 15 fastest-growing large cities in the country. Between 2015 and 2016, Conroe — a Montgomery County suburb just past The Woodlands on Interstate 45 north of Houston — grew 7.8 percent, more than any city with more than 50,000 residents, data released this week shows. That’s also more than 11 times the nation’s growth rate, 0.7 percent. The numbers add fuel to an economic hot streak that officia

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