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Metro adopted its fiscal 2025 budget Thursday, cementing the agency’s redirected focus on improving customer experience and investing in its aging vehicle fleet rather than expanding the transit system. The unanimously adopted spending plan includes a $980 million operating budget and $598 million in capital expenses. Those represent increases of $65 million and $177.6 million …
Harris County has committed $800,000 to a museum dedicated to showcasing Latino art and culture in Houston. The Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex, or ALMAAHH for short, plans to build a 181,000-square-foot campus on 5.5 acres of land in east Houston by 2030. The museum is estimated to cost at …
Houston ISD is on track in 2024-25 to see its largest single-year enrollment loss since the pandemic, with the majority of student departures coming from campuses overhauled under a controversial new model implemented by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. Records obtained by the Houston Landing show HISD enrolled about 173,900 students in the fourth week of …
The city still will require builders to construct sidewalks with homes, but significant changes could be coming to Houston’s sidewalk guidelines in the coming months. The decision follows weeks of public debate after three City Council members proposed eliminating a requirement that developers include sidewalks when building a new home, even if it does not …
Moon Park, 79, has been a Houston resident for the last 40 years. He describes his retirement lifestyle as on the quieter side, either staying home or going to church. Yet despite his age and being a first-generation Korean immigrant, he’s always been active in the Houston civic process. Park makes sure to learn whatever …
In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, floating brown eggs from a tank of deep-sea coral. She sticks a little plastic dropper into the water, sucks up an egg or two, and deposits them into a beaker on top of the …
When Miranda Lambert penned “Hello Shitty Day” with Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, and George Strait hit machine Dean Dillon, she knew just who she wanted to record the song: Jake Worthington, a rising honky-tonker who shares her reverence for traditional Texas music and barroom weepers.“Jake was the first person I thought of to sing it,” Lambert says of …
Step inside the co-op at University of Texas at Austin these days, and you can feel the buzz of a winning season. The jerseys of quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning hang from wall racks, too in demand to dangle there for long. The members of the bald mannequin family by the front door show …
Taylor Nichols is no small gherkin on the pickleball court. During a recent weekday match at Chicken N Pickle, a new sports and entertainment complex in the blink-and-you’d-miss-it town of Webster, halfway between Houston and Galveston, the 33-year-old Fort Worth native zipped around the court, dinking and lobbing and backhanding the ball in a furious …
Smoked brisket and ribs weren’t featured at family barbecues when Sebastien Quintanilla was growing up in Corpus Christi. Family members would grill fajitas and chicken quarters while Quintanilla’s grandmother Rosa made beans, rice, salsas, and tortillas by hand. She cooked every day, not just for family gatherings, and a young Quintanilla was there to help. …
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