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Outgoing Lieutenant Governor Announces Ramp Down Of Troops On Texas Border
Posted on · This is following an $86 million extension of the executive order that first sent the Guard to the Texas-Mexico border.
Posted on · This is following an $86 million extension of the executive order that first sent the Guard to the Texas-Mexico border.
Posted on · We discuss the final days of the GOP Lieutenant Governor runoff election campaign and look ahead to the general elections for that office and for Governor, as we talk with Brandon Rottinghaus, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston.
Posted on · The Houston City Council is delaying a vote on a proposed Equal Rights Ordinance for another two weeks. Councilmembers did vote Wednesday on a number of amendments to the ordinance, including one that would eventually apply the ordinance to companies with 15 or more workers, drawn down, over time, from 50. On this edition of […]
Posted on · Friday, May 2, at 7 p.m. candidates in the Lt. Governor Republican primary runoff race will face off in a debate on Houston Public Media’s TV 8 and News 88.7, and online at houstonpublicmedia.org. Our own Craig Cohen will moderate the debate along with three local journalists who’ll serve as panelists. Craig sat down with […]
Posted on · Each year, the nonprofit organization Children at Risk publishes a report ranking public schools in Greater Houston, and across Texas. Their goal: to identify which schools are succeeding, and which are struggling, as a way to encourage parents, teachers, and the community at large to discuss ways to improve public education. The 2014 numbers were […]
Posted on · Lt. Governor David Dewhurst placed a distant second in Tuesday’s GOP primary. He will have to make up ground to defeat State Senator Dan Patrick in a runoff election on May 27 just to be his own party’s nominee for re-election to his current post come November. We discuss this and other results from Tuesday’s […]
Posted on · Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst placed a distant second in Tuesday’s GOP primary. He will have to make up ground to defeat State Senator Dan Patrick in a runoff election on May 27th, just to be his own party’s nominee for re-election to his current post come November. On this edition of Houston Matters, we discuss […]
Posted on · Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst says he's confident he'll win a runoff election against Dan Patrick.