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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo teamed-up Monday with numerous Democratic elected officials and other community leaders to decry sweeping statewide voting restrictions proposed by Texas Republicans, and to persuade state businesses to use their clout to speak out against new voting limits that critics claim would take Texas back to the racist Jim Crow era. Turner specifically called out Senate Bill 7 and House Bill 6, two Republican-backed measures that would...

Suarez said that Acevedo will start his new job in the next four to eight weeks since Acevedo requested some buffer time out of respect for Mayor Sylvester Turner. The ever outspoken Acevedo sure seemed fired-up about the next chapter of his career in his remarks to the Miami media Monday morning. “In my heart,” Acevedo said, “I knew that my mayor, Sylvester Turner… I knew his time was coming up, and I was contemplating what’s next. Because politics are not in my heart, because as yo...

Gov. Greg Abbott visited Houston on Monday to tout new legislation proposed by his Republican allies that he claimed would protect the integrity of Texas elections. But his Democratic rival Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo contends that the slate of electoral reforms state conservatives are clamoring about is nothing more than good old fashioned voter suppression, inspired by former President Donald Trump’s ongoing, evidence-free insistence that voter fraud cost him his reelection. Speaking a...

The Texas Department of Transportation has been moving forward with its $7 billion plan to remake and expand Interstate 45 to lessen local traffic, but Harris County threw a wrench in that effort on Thursday by suing the state transportation agency. The county hopes its lawsuit will lead the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to order TxDOT to pause the project and send it back to the drawing board to come up with a new plan that better addresses the concerns of county resid...

Turner announced the party’s cancellation during his weekly COVID-19 press conference by reading aloud an email Wierck sent to the mayor. In a since-deleted Instagram ad, Concrete Cowboy was inviting Houstonians to come out and party sans masks as soon as Gov. Abbotts new rules would allow. Screenshot “Mayor Turner, it was never our intention to host a party where we encourage patrons to not wear a mask,” Wierck (unconvincingly) claimed in his email. Wierck promised Concrete Cowboy would ...

Republicans like Paxton have been accusing tech companies of unfairly muzzling right-wing voices on their platforms for months now, and Trump’s Twitter ban following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 sent them into even bigger bouts of indignation. A few days after Paxton spoke at the pro-Trump rally in D.C. that preceded the riot, he launched an investigation into Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google, demanding those companies turn over documents about content moderation citin...

“From leaving Texans to literally freeze to death to letting a deadly virus have an open season on our residents, Governor Abbott has proven many times over that he neither understands the struggles of everyday Texans, nor does he care about doing his basic duty to protect them,” Hinojosa wrote. “This will kill Texans,” he said. Hinojosa’s Democratic ally Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo also pointed to last month’s winter storm in her response to Tuesday’s news, and warned that A...

“Hospitalizations are the lowest that they have been in four months. The number of active COVID cases is the lowest since November, and is less than half of what it was just a month ago,” Abbott said. “That means that far more Texans are recovering from COVID than contracticing it,” he continued, before bragging that the state’s coronavirus test positivity rate has finally fallen to under nine percent for the first time in months. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo tore into Abbotts dec...

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner sounded equal parts furious and bewildered on Tuesday when he laid into Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to rescind the statewide mask mandate and to reopen Texas businesses to 100 percent capacity starting next Wednesday.

Houston area residents sure seem as eager as ever to grab the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available after last week’s winter storm delayed inoculations across the region. The first full day of vaccinations on Wednesday at NRG Stadium's new clinic, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saw long...