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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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.
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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On the first day of the long-awaited, highly publicized sprint to collect more than 63,000 signatures within 30 days, only one person canvassed at the main signature collection event.
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On the first day of the long-awaited, highly publicized sprint to collect more than 63,000 signatures within 30 days, only one person canvassed at the main signature collection event. The forms contained a misspelling of “petition.”
In the two months following the Houston City Council’s vote to expand the so-called civility ordinance, the Houston Police Department issued more than 500 tickets to homeless people — marking the highest two-month rate of citations since Mayor John Whitmire took office last year.
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The Houston Police Department ramped up its enforcement of rules intended to keep homeless people off sidewalks after the city council expanded the so-called civility ordinance. The typical fine was about $200.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said there is no evidence of a serial killer operating in Houston, shutting down a conspiracy theory propagated on social media.
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The city of Houston plans to open a “superhub” for homeless people as part of Mayor John Whitmire’s initiative to address street homelessness in the city.
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire has “indefinitely” postponed his "State of the City" address that was scheduled for later this month as Hilton Americas-Houston workers are in the second week of their strike.
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Whitmire's address was originally scheduled to he held at the Hilton Americas-Houston on Sept. 25. He said Thursday it's been postponed "indefinitely" as workers at the downtown hotel are in their second week of a strike.
As hundreds of city workers await pension payments more than four months after retiring, the chair of the city’s independent pension system faced questions from the Houston City Council.
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Of about 1,000 city workers who retired in May as part of a buyout program, up to 349 still haven’t received regular pension payments. The president of the city’s independent pension system says “a lot” of them didn’t submit the proper paperwork in a timely manner.
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