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Today's interview is with Michelle Palmer, making another run for the State Board of Education in district 6.
09/16/2026

Today's interview is with Michelle Palmer, making another run for the State Board of Education in district 6.

What can you say about the State Board of Education? Sometimes they lie dormant, and sometimes they go full-on whackadoo. That’s where we are now, and so another thing you could say about the SBOE is that it would be a much better and more functional entity if it had people like Michelle Palmer we...

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Linda Marie Dunson, incumbent judge of the 309th Family District Court.
09/16/2026

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Linda Marie Dunson, incumbent judge of the 309th Family District Court.

(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. I ran a series of these for candidates in contested primaries, and now these are for the rest of the candidates. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidate...

A new poll of Texas Hispanic likely voters shows strong levels of support for Democratic candidates.
09/16/2026

A new poll of Texas Hispanic likely voters shows strong levels of support for Democratic candidates.

A new survey of Texas Hispanic likely voters, conducted for The Cook Political Report and TelevisaUnivision, finds the Democratic candidates in the state’s Senate and gubernatorial contests leading their GOP opponents by a 2-1 margin with the key voting bloc, as President Donald Trump’s job appr...

There will be an NHL expansion team in Texas. It just may take a couple of years to get here, as they have to sort out w...
09/16/2026

There will be an NHL expansion team in Texas. It just may take a couple of years to get here, as they have to sort out where that team will be and where it will play first.

Deputy commissioner Bill Daly pumped the brakes on the notion of rapid league expansion Wednesday at the NHL/NHLPA player media tour in Las Vegas — talk Daly fueled at the European stop on the media tour in Munich on Aug. 22. Though the league has engaged in significant discussions with Houston bi...

Today's interview is with Shaun Finnie, who is running for CD02 against Steve Toth, who ousted Rep. Dan Crenshaw in the ...
09/15/2026

Today's interview is with Shaun Finnie, who is running for CD02 against Steve Toth, who ousted Rep. Dan Crenshaw in the primary for not being extremist enough.

We move now to Congress and the CD02 race where Shaun Finnie started out as an opponent to Rep. Dan Crenshaw, then had the Republican primary voters hand him Steve Toth instead. Finnie was raised on a family farm by a single mother but got to go to college and eventually got a law degree and an MBA....

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Toria J. Finch, incumbent judge of Harris County Criminal Court at Law #9.
09/15/2026

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Toria J. Finch, incumbent judge of Harris County Criminal Court at Law #9.

(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. I ran a series of these for candidates in contested primaries, and now these are for the rest of the candidates. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidate...

The vile and repulsive Bo French has been the main character since he sent that nasty racist tweet of his about students...
09/15/2026

The vile and repulsive Bo French has been the main character since he sent that nasty racist tweet of his about students at the UT-Ohio State game on Sunday. But maybe it's a good thing that more people now know about him, and about Jon Rosenthal.

Whether you tried to peacefully enjoy some college football this weekend – and as predicted there were too many ads for terrible candidates to avoid – or you tried your best to be sports-free, you probably couldn’t make it to Monday without hearing about this:

We have a variety of races on tap for this week's interviews, and we begin today with two-term Harris County Commissione...
09/14/2026

We have a variety of races on tap for this week's interviews, and we begin today with two-term Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia, running for re-election in Precinct 2. You know him well, hear what he has to say about his past term and what's to come.

We’re going to start the second week of interviews with a very familiar face, that of two-term County Commissioner Adrian Garcia, from Precinct 2. You know his story by now: He served three terms as Houston City Council member in District H, with his first election in 2003. He was then elected She...

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Melissa Morris, incumbent judge of the 263rd Criminal District Court.
09/14/2026

Today's judicial Q&A is with Judge Melissa Morris, incumbent judge of the 263rd Criminal District Court.

(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. I ran a series of these for candidates in contested primaries, and now these are for the rest of the candidates. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidate...

HPD's policy used to be that its detectives would investigate any officer-involved shooting regardless of which agency t...
09/14/2026

HPD's policy used to be that its detectives would investigate any officer-involved shooting regardless of which agency those officers worked for. That was changed in early 2025 to defer to the agency responsible, and you can see the effect of that in the aftermath of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing.

More than a year before a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in east Houston, Mayor John Whitmire’s administration quietly changed a decades-old policy that required Houston Police Department detectives to investigate every officer-involved shooti...

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