Really need local media to use their words. The passive voice here excuses TxDOT's responsibility.
The bridge was closed for months because TxDOT broke it. Their contractor failed to secure equipment which washed downstream and broke the bridge.
https://t.co/p56i1iPjq0
Mayor John Whitmire is facing formal ethics complaints from the Houston Progressive Caucus over his new podcast, "901 Bagby: Inside the Mayor's Office."
According to members of the caucus, the group filed grievances over the past week with the Texas Ethics Commission, the city of Houston's Inspector General, and the City Controller's waste, fraud and abuse division.
The complaints came after Houston Public Media obtained documents showing the podcast costs up to $60,000 in public funds. Because the podcast is taxpayer-funded, the group argued Whitmire's brief allusion to next year's municipal election during the first episode of the podcast ran afoul of state ethics rules around political advertising.
Full story:
https://t.co/VdzjduPm77
BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger's first act as Governor of Virginia was to repeal Glenn Youngkin's executive order that mandated state and local law enforcement cooperate with ICE. Let’s go.
To maintain scheduled 6 min headways, metro has to run double the number of trains. they do not have enough vehicles and are having to reduce train sizes in half, from 2 car trains to 1. As we saw in that anon letter from an operator, they aren’t getting breaks like they should
The scooter ban proposal is an indictment on Houston leadership’s poor problem solving capabilities. Instead of recognizing that scooters bring enjoyment and life to DT at night, and instead of evaluating effective policy in other cities to develop a safe solution, they just ban.
Some are gaslighting the public into believing this isn't about citations and criminalizing the homeless.
This rhetoric flies in the face of the timing in which this was brought to council. It was only contemplated as a policy after the Supreme Court ruled cities could issue...
You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep.
Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another.
If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump.