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30 Jun 2020, 11:12 am
I don't think there's a city in America where the police budget is not substantially larger than other aspects of public safety and wellbeing. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 9:10 am
Let's clear a few browser tabs; here are some odds and ends that recently caught my attention and may also interest Grits readers:Houston Chronicle: Chief Harris County trial prosecutor resigns over post comparing Black Lives Matter to Nazis.Houston Chronicle: Houston City Council hears calls for police reform, improved oversight board, reduced police budget. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 6:33 am
Also on Wednesday, June 23rd, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said 97% of the intensive care unit beds in Houston are filled. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 4:16 pm
Further details about the Houston order can be found here. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 12:05 pm
Police in Texas cannot strike. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:27 am
HSC proposed to acquire an easement across the land for a pipeline from Texas City to a plant in Brazoria County owned by Braskem America which would carry propylene. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 4:40 pm
Texas has been experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 2:25 pm
The City Council is also taking a hard look at reducing the department’s next fiscal budget. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 12:59 pm
The New York Times cited examples of city officials who largely refrained from deploying violence against protestors—including in Petersburg, Virginia; Houston, Texas; and Newark, New Jersey. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 12:10 pm
Monty, an attorney with Monty & Ramirez LLP in Houston, Texas, says the decision means employers can definitely rely on work authorization documents from DACA recipients, often called Dreamers. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 11:46 am
Texas Gov. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 8:42 am
Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Chief Art Acevedo, the chief of police for the city of Houston. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 8:40 am
Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Chief Art Acevedo, the chief of police for the city of Houston. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 11:12 am
Protests in the big cities have received the most attention, but one of the most remarkable developments on the civil-rights front in Grits' lifetime has been the rise of protest events in smaller Texas towns where we've never witnessed this sort of activism. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 5:36 pm
" That's the backdrop for this debate in every city, fwiw: We're telling them to cut police budgets at a time when they can't afford to keep expanding them, anyway.In Houston, city council member Leticia Plummer proposed a budget amendment to eliminate 200 vacant positions at the Houston PD and cut that money from the budget. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 1:08 pm
The Houston Chronicle this week ran a nice profile of Floyd's Houston years, adding to what we learned in Mike Hall's Texas Monthly profile on the same topic. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:00 am
Houston Rep. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:26 pm
Houston Leads Texas Cities in Fatal Police Shootings The Post report revealed that more than 2,500 police departments shot and killed at least one person between 2015 and 2019. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:21 pm
Update 5/29/2020: A Texas attorney reported two more scams. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 6:32 am
Mike Hall at Texas Monthly wrote a brilliant profile of Floyd's time in Houston. [read post]
