Posted on · On Wednesday's Houston Matters: An update on the heavy rain affecting the region, efforts to get disaster relief money owed to Texas, our weekly political roundup, Houston's best themed restaurants, and musician Pete Yorn performs two new singles.
Posted on · The bill includes a provision aimed at forcing the federal government to release more than $4 billion to Texas that Congress allocated to the state more than a year ago.
Posted on · Texas’ 7th Congressional District may no longer be the same safe Republican seat it was when Congressman John Culberson first won office in 2000
Posted on · Governor Greg Abbott will come to Houston later this month to meet with Mayor Sylvester Turner and City Council members to discuss Harvey relief. Turner and his colleagues plan to make the point that Abbott’s reluctance to use the fund has made it harder to get Congress to pay for flood control projects
Posted on · Texas Senator John Cornyn says there’s no guarantee the Senate will take up the disaster aid bill after the next government funding deadline on February 8. That appears to contradict a pledge Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave earlier this week
Posted on · It’s time again for the Houston Matters weekly roundup of national, state, and local political stories with an eye for how it all might affect Houston and Texas.