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Share Several local entities held elections Saturday, May 1, to fill available city leadership and school board positions. Mayor Mary Alderman was re-elected as mayor of Hubbard after defeating challenger Steve Czapski by a vote of 117-80. Serving as Hubbard council members will be Marty Kimbrough with 125 votes and Roger "Scooter" Lynch with 89 votes. Others running for council seats in Hubbard were Simone Johnson, who received 85 votes; Audrey Johnson, with 51 votes; and Walter Hill, with 16 votes. Whitney voters selected a mayor and three school board members. Reverend Brad Slaten cam...

KUT People line up at Parque Zaragoza Recreation Center to vote and register to vote following a rally celebrating the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial last month. A majority of those who cast ballots in the May 1 election want to be able to rank candidates — instead of just choosing one — when voting in local elections. Nearly 58% of voters favored Proposition E, according to unofficial election results. Despite the interest from voters, political experts and the City of Austin’s legal team say ranked-choice voting won’t be an option locally until something changes at the...

Michael Glaspie Michael Glaspie has lived in the city for nearly 40 years with his family and served on the Arlington ISD school board from 1991 to 2008 and then the Arlington City Council representing District 8 from 2012 to 2019. He's also served on several city committees. Glaspie has also served as a minister of Mount Olive Baptist Church and a U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Veteran. In education, Glaspie holds two Bachelor’s degrees, one in mathematics from UT Austin and another in biblical studies from the Southern Bible Institute, and two master’s degrees in marketing/finance (UT Austin)...

Texas’ chief elections administrator claims sovereign immunity bars the two lawsuits against her taking aim at the state’s voter registration and early voting rules. A sign is seen at a drive-through ballot drop off location in Austin, Texas, last October. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) (CN) — Texas’ secretary of state asked a Fifth Circuit panel Thursday to dismiss two voting rights lawsuits from the Texas Democratic Party, one challenging voter registration rules and the other a law Democrats say was passed to disenfranchise left-leaning college students by placing re...

Candidates apparently spent more time campaigning than fundraising for spots on school boards and New Braunfels City Council, according to reports for the period leading up to Saturday’s general election. Thirteen of 14 candidates vying for city council and New Braunfels and Comal independent school district boards reported Monday as required by the Texas Election Code, covering the March 23-April 23 filing period.  Brittany Soto, the 19-year-old McQueeney resident and college student seeking a spot on the CISD board tallied the most donations — 54 totaling $2,655 — and coun...