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From our magazine: “[Houston's] the city of haters, you know. If you can win over the folks here, shit, I can go anywhere—LA, New York, Chicago. It doesn’t matter because if you can win over a hater in Houston, you can win over the world.” https://www.texasobserver.org/kam-franklin-the-suffers-solo-album-houston/
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From our magazine: “[Houston's] the city of haters, you know. If you can win over the folks here, shit, I can go anywhere—LA, New York, Chicago. It doesn’t matter because if you can win over a hater in Houston, you can win over the world.” https://www.texasobserver.org/kam-franklin-the-suffers-solo-album-houston/
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Top story: In #Houston, the mayor has near-autocratic power the likes of which other "strong-mayor" cities like NY or LA can only dream of, yet its politics are stultifying, its outcomes unremarkable.
Bayou City's mayor is running out of time ... https://www.texasobserver.org/john-whitmire-houston-mayor-state-city-government/
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This week's top story: John Whitmire is a nominally “strong” mayor with a relatively meager voter mandate, presiding over a once-mighty fiefdom in decline.
How, then, did the strongest mayor in America become so weak? https://www.texasobserver.org/john-whitmire-houston-mayor-state-city-government/