Politics
Amanda Edwards, former Houston City Council member, is running for mayor
Posted on · Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner can not run for the office again because of term limits.
Posted on · Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner can not run for the office again because of term limits.
Posted on · Former Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins rose to prominence by pushing ways to expand voting access in Texas’ most populous county during the November 2020 election.
Posted on · The two will face off in a primary to represent Senate District 15, which includes Bellaire, The Heights and Humble.
Posted on · Whitmire has been rumored to be interested in succeeding Mayor Sylvester Turner, who is currently serving his final term.
Posted on · The $5.1 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 is a $227.96 million increase over last year’s spending.
Posted on · More than one-third of respondents say they'll vote for incumbent Sylvester Turner -- though even more of them give the city of Houston a poor grade on flood control and road maintenance.
Posted on · Turner said Houston is home to nearly 17,000 people of Peruvian, Chilean and Argentinian descent
Posted on · The City will launch a new volunteer program called ‘Houston Still Needs You’
Posted on · Houston Mayor said that the cost of another reservoir is around $500 million and added that Texans need the same kind of federal assistance that Louisiana received after Hurricane Katrina, and New York and New Jersey got following Hurricane Sandy
Posted on · Earlier this month (Sept. 14, 2016), Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced a preliminary plan to reform the city's pension system and address an unfunded liability in the billions, paying it off over thirty years. The plan will, among other measures, lower the assumed rate of return on pension investments to seven percent, which Turner says […]
Posted on · Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the Texas Board of Education to reject a controversial textbook.
Posted on · Officials have voted to designate the road as the Bob Lanier Memorial Parkway.
Posted on · Some worry the new rules would give an even bigger advantage to incumbents and wealthier candidates.
Posted on · Last month, the Association of Professional Educators announced a petition to challenge the state's planned updated appraisal system tying teacher evaluation scores to student performance on standardized tests. That announcement followed a lawsuit brought by the Texas State Teachers Association, seeking to invalidate part of the new evaluation system being planned by Texas Education Commissioner […]
Posted on · The city of Houston says it’s on its way to meet Mayor Sylvester Turner’s goal of filling every pothole that is reported within 24 hours - less than two weeks after his inauguration.