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12 Sep 2017, 7:08 am by Amy Starnes
— The Dallas Morning News Mayor seeks temporary property tax hike for Harvey recovery — Mayor Sylvester Turner will ask City Council to approve an 8.9 percent hike in the city’s property tax rate this fall to help Houston recover from Hurricane Harvey. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 11:01 am by Kim Davey
A lively and fast-paced Q&A occurred in a packed room Wednesday in Houston, on the third day of public education hearings on proposed rules changes. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 11:46 am by [email protected]
The Texas Tribune reported that Abbott’s order was intended to keep violent criminals off the streets of Texas’ towns and cities. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 11:46 am by [email protected]
The Texas Tribune reported that Abbott’s order was intended to keep violent criminals off the streets of Texas’ towns and cities. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 10:40 am by Coane and Associates,PLLC
He is a 2020 and 2021 Super Lawyer selected by Thomson Reuters company, with offices in Texas and Florida. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 6:26 am by Amy Starnes
Latest Harvey News Houston FEMA flood map missed 75 percent of flood damages, says new study — FEMA’s 100-year flood plain map doesn’t have the best reputation in Bayou City – just ask any Houstonian whose home was outside the flood risk zone yet still filled with water during one if the city’s many and recent flooding events. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 7:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Though apples-to-apples data is hard to come by, an item in Forbes a couple of years ago calculated 2013 per-capita ticket revenue for US cities with more than 250,000 population: In El Paso, the city received $6.16 per capita from these sources in 2013; in Houston the per-capita figure was $17.89; Dallas, $32.58; Plano, by contrast, received $43.36 per capita. [read post]
28 Aug 2021, 1:17 pm by John Floyd
  The permitless gun carry law came when the Houston Police Department reported on the 172nd day of 2021 that Houston had 66 more homicides this year than it had last year at the same time—222 homicides 2021; 156 in 2020. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 8:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As you read through the Houston Chronicle story, multiple incidents involving Goines that appeared in the newspaper's archives were not recorded in his official disciplinary history reporters received from the department.Here's why: Houston is one of about 70 Texas municipalities that have opted into the state's "civil service code" for police and firefighters (Ch. 143 of the Texas Local Government Code). [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 7:07 am by Amy Starnes
 (Subscription required) — Texas Lawyer How to get (and offer) help after Hurricane Harvey — Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas Coast, and has left Houston — the nation’s fourth-largest city — grappling with unprecedented flooding. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 9:26 am by Michael Lowe
  Sometimes, sophisticated routes are established between cities or states so prostitutes can rotate from place to place. [read post]
9 May 2016, 3:58 pm by Anthony B. Cavender
City of Houston, Texas, held, in an 8 to 1 ruling, that the Texas Clean Air Act (TCAA) and the TCAA’s enforcement mechanisms imbedded in the Texas Water Code preempt a City of Houston ordinance that required emissions-emitting facilities located within the city limits to register their facilities with the City of Houston, and to pay registration fees. [read post]
7 May 2008, 4:46 pm
* Musical chairs: outgoing Texas solictor general Ted Cruz joins Morgan Lewis (based in Houston and D.C.). [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 12:09 am
Texas, which led the nation in deadly crane accidents for the past three years, does not. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 7:39 am
Jolanda Jones, a defense attorney and Houston city council member, has complained for years that minorities are unfairly stricken from juries and that punishment is administered more harshly for blacks. [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 3:14 am
Customers of participating wireless companies - ALLTEL, Nextel, Cingular Wireless, Houston Cellular and Verizon Wireless - can dial *DPS (*377) free of airtime charges anywhere in Texas. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 2:10 pm by John Floyd
The case had been presented to the grand jury over a six month period by special prosecutor Chris Downey, a Houston-based attorney. [read post]