It’s been 8 months since the mayor of the fourth largest city started giving its newspaper of record the silent treatment. Truly Trumpian behavior from a so-called Democrat who ran as a no-nonsense coalition builder.
Beth Shook
@bshook.bsky.social
texas to dc 🚇 to cdmx 🇲🇽 and back. civic-minded software engineer, urbanist, toddler mom, grackle whisperer 🐦⬛
Been waiting for someone (Chronicle??) to explain this. The answer: highest call-out rates in the country thanks to long commutes. You can thank Trump and the GOP for the shutdown, but credit goes to urban sprawl and car-centric planning for making it worse.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo agoTSA lines were long at airports across the U.S. on Tuesday amid staffing shortages, but passengers at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston waited more than four hours to pass through checkpoints and similar wait times were expected on Wednesday.
a friend pointed out that daycares should encourage teacher gifts *after* the holidays rather than before and she’s so right bc I have never seen more love for childcare workers than today on the internet
The silence of many Houston officials on the redistricting scheme, an assault on the voting rights of the people they represent, speaks volumes
convinced the local obsession with this empty slogan is a symptom of carbrain/too much time stuck in traffic
Chron.com@chron.com · last yr.🖌️🎨 Houston teens just made the city proud. "Be Someone" is back—and here's the story behind how they brought it back: bit.ly/45aHUUh
anyone know what happened with this? why is dasean jones not on the may 3 ballot? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele...
Judge sets Harris County 2022 judicial election redo for May 2025
One of Harris County's 2022 judicial races could be back on the ballot in May 2025 after a visiting judge from Bexar County ordered a redo earlier this month.
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remember when the nyt website was a bunch of headlines and when you clicked on a headline it took you to an article? I miss that
Not just Houston, but like, downtown Houston and some of the blackest neighborhoods in the city.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last yr.It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.
can we please stop holding protests at city hall on a weekend or holiday? one of the reasons the immigration protest two months ago was so powerful was that it met houstonians where they are: on the freeway, at restaurants and in hermann park
DINO Mayor John Whitmire will take time to listen to Republican donors but not his own constituents, who he labels “paid activists” when they don’t agree with him. I don’t think a recall effort is the perfect solution but I do think it might remind him who he works for: recallhouston.org
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
Every Dem should be doing this right now. What we’re experiencing now is that political capital is for. If you can’t burn your political capital when the opposition is trying to destroy everything that upholds a liberal democracy, what are you waiting for?
kottke.org@kottke.org · last yr.Like Tim Walz said, “You don't win elections to bank political capital — you win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.”
mayor whitmire and metro board chair brock (his appointee) quoted two days apart in the chronicle about the need for getting homeless people on to transit and keeping them off of it. so which is it @cityofhouston.bsky.social?
east montrose has a coffee shop again (a good one at that) 🤠 go support little dreamers during their soft launch
it’s not just about montrose boulevard. it’s about a community being denied its democratic representation. if he can do this to montrose, he can do it to your neighborhood.
Houston Public Media@houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 2y agoAfter replacing four of the seven board members last year, Houston Mayor John Whitmire wants to install new appointees in the remaining board positions on the Montrose TIRZ. The proposed leadership shuffle has drawn criticism.
If you care about building a safer and more beautiful corridor to Buffalo Bayou, tomorrow is your last chance to demand the Montrose TIRZ Board vote NO on the city’s dangerous redesign of the Montrose Blvd Improvement Project. 6:30p at the Havens Center or on Zoom montrosehtx.org/meeting/febr...
February 2025 - Montrose TIRZ 27
The Board of Directors of Reinvestment Zone Number Twenty-Seven, City of Houston, Texas (the “Zone”), and along with the Board of Directors of the Montrose Redevelopment Authority, City of Houston, Te...
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me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk
no one tells you how much other people’s trash you will touch when you become a parent
“Oh, that’s what that was for” - the American public over the next few weeks
the irony of “gulf of america” is that in spanish “américa” refers to the continent, so if anything the new name is more inclusive.
when someone’s fb profile photo is from 1975 you know they’re about to invite you to sign their minimum lot size petition
