5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (876+ words) Dolores Lozano was elected in 2023 to serve Harris County as a justice of the peace, but when she recently checked her voter registration status late last month, she found that she was one of 1.2 million Texans on the “suspense list....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (692+ words) Labor Day has special significance to Brian Garcia, a banquet cook at Hilton Americas. About a year ago, the 30-year-old had just started working at the swanky hotel on Lamar Street when he and more than 100 of his coworkers walked…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1209+ words) As the lawsuits and mudslinging mount between Fort Bend County Republicans and Democrats, the latest missive from Interim County Judge Daniel Wong — who many contend has no authority to hold the office — is an attempt to undermine the county attorney…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (442+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday laid the groundwork to potentially implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballot access across the country. The ruling names 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia that sued the federal government over Trump’s…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (669+ words) Kam Franklin can’t be sure you’ll see her in a different light once you hear her debut solo album, Land of the Neon Sun. But a half-hour chat with the powerful front woman for the iconic Houston band The Suffers…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1074+ words) Four days before students were set to start classes at a Houston-area Christian school, a mom who was awarded vouchers for her dyslexic child was told she’d need to spend an extra $6,000 — out of pocket — for a language therapist. The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1122+ words) Few bureaucratic experiences are as efficiently humbling as staring into a vision test and trying to decide whether that increasingly fuzzy symbol is obvious to everyone except you. In Texas, applicants for a driver’s license are required to pass a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (746+ words) News that officials from the Secretary of State’s Office will audit Harris County elections in November sparked a few online digs about the Republicans sending “hall monitor Karens” to ensure there’s no funny business — but the woman who oversees the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1159+ words) It was January 6, 2021, and U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA)—along with his colleagues in both the House of Representatives and Senate—were set to handle some routine business. To officially certify the results the previously November’s Presidential election, declaring Joe Biden…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1075+ words) Harris County judge candidate Orlando Sanchez told a crowd of Hispanic men and women on Saturday morning that when they go to the polls on November 3, they should disregard the “R” next to his name. “I ask you to ignore…...