The City of Galveston is in the early stages of a project to resurface and potentially reconfigure its iconic seawall. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/galveston/2025/04/23/519604/city-of-galveston-announces-seawall-resurfacing-project/

Justices for Texas' Fourteenth Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down the final Republican-backed lawsuit challenging the results of the 2022 midterm elections in Harris County.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2025/04/23/519597/final-gop-backed-2022-harris-county-election-challenge-struck-down-by-appeals-court/

A sculpture that will function as a work of art, a public pavilion, a sundial and a solar energy generator is expected to start taking shape at Houston’s Mason Park over the next several years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/04/23/519586/houston-east-end-mason-park-arch-of-time-solar-art-structure/

A group of Harris County Democratic Party officials are criticizing Houston Mayor John Whitmire over his participation in a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/04/23/519576/john-whitmire-faces-backlash-for-attending-gop-rep-dan-crenshaw-fundraiser-critics-say-maga-mayor/

Demanda de desahucio ¿Qué es?
https://alvarezabogadostenerife.com/?p=51193 

Amidst the competing interests of Democrats and Republicans, Fort Bend County commissioners reached a deadlock over voter precincts after failing to pass two proposals to hire an outside law firm to advise the county on redistricting.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2025/04/23/519468/fort-bend-leaders-clash-over-legal-counsel-to-review-voter-precincts/

Country Breakfast

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U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Black Democrat from Houston, called out a fellow member of Congress for recent remarks about him that he described as racist.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/04/22/519488/houston-congressman-al-green-says-tennessee-rep-used-a-racial-slur-by-calling-him-boy/

Houston-based Empower Pharmacy is one of two compounding pharmacies sued by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly earlier this month for allegedly selling “knockoff” versions of its weight loss and diabetes drugs.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/medicine-wellness/2025/04/22/519463/eli-lilly-sues-houston-based-compounding-pharmacy-over-alleged-knockoff-obesity-diabetes-drugs/

Early voting is underway for elections in Harris County on issues ranging from multi-million-dollar school district bonds to mayoral races.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2025/04/22/519437/early-voting-begins-tuesday-for-harris-county-may-3-elections/

The Texas Senate has advanced a bill to study the costs to the state of undocumented immigration. Republicans blocked any consideration in the proposed study of the economic benefits such immigrants contribute to the state.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/22/519447/senate-advances-bill-requiring-annual-report-on-costs-to-texas-of-undocumented-immigration/

#cymraeg #welsh #politics Not my neck of the woods but been down here long enough to know that the #Senned #CountyCouncils and #local #government is corrupt and rotten to the core. Makes the #Westminster #Village seem like a kiddies playground.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/22/welsh-tory-to-quit-at-next-senedd-poll-due-to-general-election-betting-charges?CMP=share_btn_url

Houston’s largest urban green space was previously the site of Camp Logan, a U.S. Army training facility during World War I. A $42 million revitalization project in a 100-acre section of Memorial Park will pay homage to that history.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/04/22/519440/memorial-groves-project-in-houston-to-serve-as-tribute-to-memorial-parks-world-war-i-roots/

Some Houston ISD parents who are boycotting the STAAR test say their children were presented with the standardized tests even though they had opted out of taking them.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2025/04/22/519378/hisd-parents-say-some-students-were-presented-an-exam-despite-opting-out/

Rice University has announced a strategic plan to expand its student population by nearly 30% by 2028.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/04/22/519389/rice-university-announces-strategic-plan-to-expand-student-population-by-nearly-30-percent/

Houston Public Works expects to raise water bills to fund a $4.2 billion overhaul of the East Water Purification Plant, which the department says supplies water to about 1.9 million of the 2.1 million Houstonians served by the city’s water system. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/city-of-houston/2025/04/22/519419/houston-water-bills-likely-to-go-up-as-multibillion-dollar-overhaul-of-purification-plant-gets-underway/

Criminal charges have been filed against Parnell Bland, a 34-year-old man accused in a shootout that left a Harris County deputy injured in downtown Houston on Monday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/04/22/519392/houston-man-accused-in-deputy-shooting-charged-with-aggravated-assault-unlawful-carry/

Federal immigration enforcement officers are performing welfare checks at the homes of unaccompanied children in the Houston area and nationwide.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/21/519189/immigration-officials-are-now-doing-welfare-checks-at-the-homes-of-unaccompanied-children-in-houston/