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The 2023 election season may be winding down but Houstonians still have some big decisions to make!

Texas State Technical College honored military veteran students and staff at TSTCs Fort Bend County campus with an event hosted on November 8.

SUGAR LAND, Texas — In Sugar Land, there’s a refrain you may hear from residents — an unofficial city motto of sorts: Life is sweeter here. By many measures, it is. This Houston suburb is affluent, with a median household income nearly 70% higher than the nation’s. One of the world’s largest oil companies, Schlumberger, has a sprawling campus here. The crown jewel of its current development boom is the Imperial Char House, the sugar refinery that gave the town ...

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Fort Bend County's early voting numbers are nearly double from four years ago, and some believe it's tied to school districts' spending.

The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled.

Fort Bend County residents have the opportunity to vote on $712,630,000 in mobility bonds that county officials say are needed to keep up with the county’s explosive growth. Early voting

Fort Bend County officials are asking for voter approval of bonds regarding the construction of projects in the county worth nearly $1 billion.

Fort Bend County will host a public information meeting Oct. 30 to share information and hear feedback on the bond propositions appearing on Nov. 7 ballots.

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