Mayor John Whitmire attempted to quell concerns and misconceptions about a major homeless resource hub during a walkthrough of the city's planned East End facility on Monday.
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Harris County's health department has launched a new online dashboard to track human cases of mosquito-borne illnesses.
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Montrose's rainbow crosswalks are on their way out. Houston-area leaders warn the removal of more roadway murals and artwork could be coming.
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A “Black Lives Matter” roadway in Houston’s Third Ward could be on the chopping block for TxDOT’s order to remove non-traffic signage and art from roadways. A Galveston city spokesperson said it's waiting for TxDOT’s decision on a Juneteenth sign.
After months of contentious community engagement, the Houston City Council took the first of two votes that would lead to the closure of a two-block section of Polk Street.
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The city council took the first of two votes to finalize the sale of the street to the Houston First Corporation. The city also attached strings to the plan, which is tied to the expansion of the George R. Brown Convention Center.
The executive director of a local immigrant rights organization was removed from a Houston City Council meeting after suggesting that city officials lied about the recent detention of a 15-year-old boy with autism.
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FIEL Houston executive director Cesar Espinosa criticized the city's mayor and police chief more than a week after Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, a 15-year-old boy with autism, reportedly went missing while he was selling fruit with his mother. The boy ended up in federal custody.
For the second time in as many years, the Houston City Council granted Mayor John Whitmire’s request to not raise the city’s property tax rate — this time, despite unanswered questions and opposition from a handful of council members.
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At the urging of Mayor John Whitmire, the city council voted to not increase property taxes. The move comes as the city faces a $128 million deficit, projected to increase to more than $220 million next year.
A proposal by the city of Houston to operate a “superhub” for homeless people in East Downtown was delayed after Mayor John Whitmire’s administration pulled the $16 million purchase of the facility from the city council agenda.
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire called the removal of Montrose's rainbow crosswalks "a manufactured issue" in his first public comments about the controversy.
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Houston's Emancipation Park is undergoing a multi-million dollar expansion over the next several months.
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Houston and Harris County leaders are considering a lawsuit over the upcoming removal of Montrose's rainbow crosswalks.
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METRO plans to remove the rainbow crosswalks in Houston's Montrose neighborhood, where they were installed in 2017 to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, after a directive by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
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