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Rodney Ellis: Spend $4.5M to Stop Crises Before They Become Crimes and Jail Cells

Can prevention make communities safer while freeing police for serious crime? Harris County’s HART and RISE results make a powerful case for changing public safety.

Rodney Ellis: Spend $4.5M to Stop Crises Before They Become Crimes and Jail Cells

Can prevention make communities safer while freeing police for serious crime? Harris County’s HART and RISE results make a powerful case for changing public safety.

Rodney Ellis: Spend $4.5M to Stop Crises Before They Become Crimes and Jail Cells

Can prevention make communities safer while freeing police for serious crime? Harris County’s HART and RISE results make a powerful case for changing public safety.

Rodney Ellis: Spend $4.5M to Stop Crises Before They Become Crimes and Jail Cells

Can prevention make communities safer while freeing police for serious crime? Harris County’s HART and RISE results make a powerful case for changing public safety.

Rodney Ellis: Spend $4.5M to Stop Crises Before They Become Crimes and Jail Cells

Can prevention make communities safer while freeing police for serious crime? Harris County’s HART and RISE results make a powerful case for changing public safety.

Talarico Brings Faith, Justice, and His Senate Campaign to Harris County at The Luke Church

Can James Talarico flip Texas? His appearance at The Luke reveals the multiracial, faith-centered coalition he hopes to mobilize against Ken Paxton.

Don't forget to mark your calendars #Houston!
[Queer to Stay 4] #Pride Is a #Protest 🏳️‍🌈
🌈Sun 28 JUNE '26 11a - 2:30p (time extended to include a #march!) @ City Hall, 901 Bagby St #HTX 77002
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#SouthernLights #CAW #CommunitiesAtWork #50501Houston #50501Movement #HDSA #DSA #LGBTQ #vigil #HarrisCo #HarrisCounty #FortBendCo #FortBendCounty #WallerCo #WallerCounty #MontgomeryCo #MontgomeryCounty #GalvestonCo #GalvestonCounty #Bellaire #Cypress #Katy #Pearland #Friendswood #Pasadena #GalenaPark #Humble #LeagueCity #Channelview #DeerPark #LaPorte #JacintoCity #JerseyVillage #Crosby #Baytown #BrooksideVillage #Conroe #Spring #MissouriCity #Stafford #Fresno #MeadowsPlace #SouthHouston #SugarLand #TheVillages #TheWoodlands #WestUniversiyPlace #TX #Texas

Hype for the Future 162J: City of Katy, Texas

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/hype-for-the-future-162j-city-of-katy-texas/

Amidst a partisan redistricting battle in Fort Bend County, the Harris County Attorney denounced what he described as KP George’s attempts to undermine the authority of Fort Bend County Attorney Bridgette Smith-Lawson.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/2025/09/25/531931/harris-county-attorney-condemns-kp-georges-attempts-to-sideline-fort-bend-county-attorney/

#FortBend #HarrisCounty #Local #News #Politics #BridgetteSmithLawson #ChristianMenefee #FortBendCountyAttorney #HarrisCountyAttorney #KpGeorge #REDISTRICTING

The homeless population in the Houston area ticked up slightly from 2024 to 2025, with the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County and its partners counting 3,325 total homeless people during their annual point-in-time count this year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/09/530459/more-than-3300-people-are-homeless-in-the-houston-area-in-2025-according-to-newly-released-figures/

#FortBend #HarrisCounty #Housing #Houston #Local #News #CoalitionForTheHomeless #CoalitionForTheHomelessOfHoustonAndHarrisCounty #FortBendCounty #HoustonHomeless #HoustonHomelessness #MontgomeryCounty

Public transit users in the Houston area will ride for free every Friday throughout September as the transit agencies for Harris County, Fort Bend County, The Woodlands Township and Conroe offer “Free Fare Fridays” in an effort to boost ridership. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2025/09/04/530097/houston-area-public-transit-agencies-to-offer-free-fare-fridays-throughout-september/

#Environment #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Traffic #Transportation #ConroeConnection #FortBendCounty #FreeFareFridays #Metro #PublicTransit #TheWoodlandsTownship

A new survey from the Kinder Institute found that more than 80% of Houston-area residents think the U.S. immigration system is not working well, while most also oppose mass deportations and support increased pathways to U.S. citizenship. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/08/26/529493/kinder-institute-immigration-policy-majority-houston-residents-increased-pathways-to-citizenship/

#FortBend #HarrisCounty #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #Politics #KinderInstitute #MassDeportations #PathwaysToCitizenship #RiceUniversitySKinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #USImmigration #USImmigrationPolicy

The Grand Parkway between Interstate 10 and U.S. 290 will be expanded from two to three lanes in each direction to help ease traffic congestion in a part of Harris County that is being rapidly developed.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2025/08/08/528248/stretch-of-grand-parkway-in-western-harris-county-set-for-157-million-expansion/

#HarrisCounty #HoustonMatters #Infrastructure #Local #News #Traffic #Transportation #GrandParkway #GrandParkwayExpansion #GrandParkwayWidening #StateHighway99 #Txdot

To drip, or not to drip, that is the question on many Houston-area residents' minds as the region prepares for the anticipated hard freeze and potential historic snowfall.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/2025/01/20/511379/to-drip-or-not-to-drip-houston-officials-offer-conflicting-guidance-on-prep-ahead-of-winter-storm/

#CityOfHouston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Infrastructure #Local #News #Weather #BurstPipes #FrozenPipes #HoustonHardFreeze #HoustonPublicWorks #HoustonWinterStorm

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Harris County are now required to have backup power generators that provide both heating and cooling. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/01/08/510172/harris-co-requires-senior-living-facilities-to-have-backup-generators-providing-heating-cooling/

#HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Housing #Local #News #AssistedLivingFacilities #HarrisCountyCommissionerLesleyBriones #NursingHomes

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Harris County are now required to have backup power generators that provide both heating and cooling. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/01/08/510172/harris-co-requires-senior-living-facilities-to-have-backup-generators-providing-heating-cooling/

#HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Housing #Local #News #AssistedLivingFacilities #HarrisCountyCommissionerLesleyBriones #NursingHomes

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Harris County are now required to have backup power generators that provide both heating and cooling. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/01/08/510172/harris-co-requires-senior-living-facilities-to-have-backup-generators-providing-heating-cooling/

#HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Housing #Local #News #AssistedLivingFacilities #HarrisCountyCommissionerLesleyBriones #NursingHomes

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Harris County are now required to have backup power generators that provide both heating and cooling. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/01/08/510172/harris-co-requires-senior-living-facilities-to-have-backup-generators-providing-heating-cooling/

#HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Housing #Local #News #AssistedLivingFacilities #HarrisCountyCommissionerLesleyBriones #NursingHomes

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Harris County are now required to have backup power generators that provide both heating and cooling. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/01/08/510172/harris-co-requires-senior-living-facilities-to-have-backup-generators-providing-heating-cooling/

#HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Housing #Local #News #AssistedLivingFacilities #HarrisCountyCommissionerLesleyBriones #NursingHomes

Since 2022, Harris County has been outsourcing inmates to the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County. Now, state officials determined both jails have been violating statewide safety standards.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/01/23/475120/state-inspection-finds-medical-neglect-other-violations-at-private-facility-housing-hundreds-of-harris-county-inmates/

#CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Local #News #GilesWDalbyCorrectionalFacility #HarrisCountyJail #Noncompliance #Outsourcing #TexasCommissionOnJailStandards

A nearly $500,000 grant awarded this week by the Environmental Protection Agency will help the Houston communities of Fifth Ward, Galena Park, Pleasantville and Sunnyside monitor hazardous air pollutants over a three-year period.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2023/11/30/471206/epa-awards-another-500000-grant-for-air-quality-monitoring-in-houston-neighborhoods/

#EnergyAndEnvironment #HarrisCounty #HealthAndScience #Houston #Local #News #PublicSafety #airpollution #airqualitymonitoring #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #EnvironmentalIntegrityProject #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Houstonair