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1 Nov 2018, 4:00 am by Staff Report
Click on the city name to download the slide presentation from each seminar. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As in the rest of the country, incarceration rates per 10,000 residents for the largest Texas cities were on the low side: Travis 21.1, Bexar 29.6, Harris 30.9, Dallas 32.3, Tarrant 31.2, El Paso 14.2.By contrast, the highest incarceration rate was Kenedy County in South Texas, with 225 residents per 10,000 incarcerated. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 6:00 am by Tim Zinnecker
The school, located in downtown Houston, was founded in 1923 and is the oldest law school in the city. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:31 pm by Above the Law
The strongest market in Texas is Houston, with some of the strongest candidates being those with corporate, capital markets, or finance experience. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 2:54 am by Bob Kraft
Texas can proudly claim three cities among the nation's ten most dangerous, with Houston and Austin also ranking near the top (or bottom). [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 7:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
PABs are only tax-exempt if they are issued for a “qualified” purpose, and a jail is not one of these.For example, in August (8/23), The Bond Buyer reported that:Bond counsel Jackson Walker LLP, based in Houston, has tentatively agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a tax dispute between Crystal City Public Facility Corp. in Texas and the Internal Revenue Service over $13.94 million of revenue bonds issued to finance prison facilities. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 8:25 am
That's the title of Lisa Falkenberg's latest news column in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 12:09 pm by Mark Bennett
(Houston City Hall to State Capital and back to Houston City Hall in 80 hours or less.) 2. [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 5:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"A lawyerly protest: Handing out cardsYou don't see this every day:More than a dozen of the city's best criminal defense lawyers converged Friday on the 11th floor of Houston's criminal courthouse to meet defendants and hand out bright yellow 3-by-5 cards explaining their constitutional rights.It was part of a protest by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association against the way Michael Fields, a misdemeanor judge, handles initial appearances in his… [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
Fortunately, Houston is one of the most resilient cities in the United States, and optimism can be found on every corner. [read post]
3 May 2011, 11:16 am by AskPat
”Lavergne, a UT Austin administrator and the author of four previous books, leads us up to this moment with his meticulous descriptions of a variety of interrelated historical threads: the history of public higher education in Texas, including the funding of both UT and Texas A&M through the profits of a very bountiful oil field; the history of the NAACP, including that of its outspoken Texas branches; the cases the NAACP took on in Texas prior to Sweatt… [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 6:10 am by Joy Waltemath
Accordingly, by reassigning him to the firefighter training academy where he conducted research on firefighter injuries and worked with recruits as a safety officer, the city violated neither the ADA nor state law (City of Houston v Proler, June 6, 2014, Willett, D). [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 12:37 pm by ParkerMcDonald
The cities of San Antonio and Houston are two of the largest supporters of the anti-DWI strategy. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 3:15 am
As a barrier island, the city can flood during tropical storms. [read post]
28 Dec 2021, 9:16 am by Adam Faderewski
She received her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1994. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 6:20 pm
(Grits' note: recommended)Felony/Misdemeanor-Friendly Career Fair Coming UpThe Mid-Cities Human Resource Association and Tarrant County Re-Entry Initiative are hosting a Felony and/or Misdemeanor-Friendly Community Career Fair on Friday, August 15, 2008, from 9:00am - 4:00pm. [read post]
8 May 2008, 8:36 am
  Here are excerpts from the article:A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the rights of victims of the 2005 BP explosion in Texas City were violated by Houston federal prosecutors and a judge, but the plea bargain they object to remains on the table. [read post]