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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 ban drive-thru voting, would require disabled voters to provide proof from a doctor of their condit...

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 you know, I have no home, I piss off the left and the right to be honest with you… but service is in...

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 alongside Republicans state Rep. Briscoe Cain of Deer Park and state Sen. Paul Bettencourt of Houston...

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 residents about pollution and all the homes and business that’ll be paved over if the expansion continu...

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. Abbott's 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 stay closed on Wednesday just in case any bare-faced Houstonians looking to party like the Before T...