A federal judge vacated FEMA’s election conditions and its 20 percent holdback on Monday, in a case Harris County filed August 19. The county won the legal question and not the injunction.
Carl Torrence, 57, posted a $25,000 bond on September 5 and is accused of taking three pairs of shoes the same day. Twenty-one felony theft charges since 2021, 11 convictions, no prison time.
The county’s Legistar calendar lists one future Commissioners Court meeting, October 6, and marks it cancelled. The agenda portal shows October 15 with no agenda.
The county clerk’s billboard campaign and the Harris Votes app arrive days before the October 5 registration deadline, with no published price on either.
The General Land Office extended all three Harris County Harvey grant deadlines by a year. None of the three outlets that covered it published how much of the money is spent.
Four years after voters approved $1.2 billion, about 5 percent of the road category is encumbered and no bonds have been issued. The county publishes three totals and no project list.
The sheriff’s office says the request would search more than 400,000 emails. The meeting the county judge says will answer the same questions has no entry on the posted calendar.
The August 6 Commissioners Court record shows four motions setting a $305,000 salary for 14 elected offices, and approval of agreements releasing claims worth $408,390.
HPD records obtained by Houston Public Media show a twelvefold rise in misdemeanor marijuana arrests. The Houston Freedom Act is on the November 3 ballot.
Humble’s adopted rate of $0.245682 is 4.84 percent below last year and $0.005661 above its voter-approval rate. It equals the de minimis ceiling exactly. The median homestead bill rises $4.12.
A state grant paid to find 200 drainage project areas worth $200 million to $4 billion. No money has been identified to build any of them.
Jack Ibarra, 34, is charged with murder in the 339th Criminal District Court. Four published accounts of the shooting give three different dates for it.