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Texas legislature wants to double its investment in student mental health resources
Posted on · New bills filed include big bumps in appropriations, as well as solutions to improving access to school-based services.
Posted on · New bills filed include big bumps in appropriations, as well as solutions to improving access to school-based services.
Posted on · Regular maintenance is critical for flood mitigation projects to work as they’re supposed to. But the Harris County Flood Control District’s maintenance budget isn’t keeping pace with its growing portfolio of projects.
Posted on · The federal funding will help protect services, expansion projects and keep Harris Health in good financial standing for its hopes to build a replacement hospital.
Posted on · Public safety officials say they have to cover essential services and new mandates passed by lawmakers with dwindling resources.
Posted on · Republican officials contend last fall’s boycott of Harris County Commissioners Court was more than worth it, forcing cuts to what they saw as a bloated budget and granting relief to taxpayers burdened by inflation. But the bill is coming due in the form of starved departments and fewer services.
Posted on · Republicans are seeking fresh elections in nearly two dozen contests, alleging Election Day woes cost them thousands of votes, but a surge in Democratic registration and long-term demographic trends provide simpler explanations for GOP losses.
Posted on · The Houston Independent School District recently paused a plan to relocate students with profound disabilities from a specialized school, T.H. Rogers, after backlash from parents. If the students are separated, they’ll be the second special education group to leave the campus. A program for deaf students at T.H. Rogers was split up across other campuses this school year.
Posted on · Trendy new concept restaurants have taken Chinatown by storm. This could impact the old institutions that have built up Chinatown over the decades.
Posted on · The Superfund site is located in the Cypress Shopping Centre strip mall off Jones Road where a former dry cleaners failed to dispose of its chemicals properly, contaminating the groundwater and soil. Cleanup of the site has been in the works for more than a decade.
Posted on · The Houston Symphony and 5th Ward Cultural Arts District launched DeLUXE K!DS — a new program that teaches kids how to play violin and much more — this year.
Posted on · The outgoing Republican commissioner for Precinct 4 named road and parks construction and increased disaster readiness among his proudest accomplishments in office.
Posted on · Even before the pandemic, Texas led the nation in the number of hospital closures in rural counties.
Posted on · In October, students at Katy ISD pushed school officials to lift filters blocking websites with LGBTQ+ resources in some of its high schools. We’re keeping up with those students as they navigate a school year fraught with book bans and other censorship.
Posted on · Briones will take office as Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4 on January 1, 2023.
Posted on · Fifth Ward residents have been fighting for years to get contamination in their neighborhood cleaned up.