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I copied these from the Brazoria County Elections Page . They all has elections last week on May 4. The links take you to the ballots presen...

- Click here for the article . It’s not uncommon for one metropolitan area to be home to dozens of local governments. In lots of those plac...

Good question. For 2306 - mostly. - Click here for the article . In Texas, the old hands say there are only two seasons: spring football a...

Yes Texas is debt ridden besides its claims to have a balanced budget. We just tend to look in the wrong places for it. - Click here for t...

For 2306 mostly - this touched on single purpose governments, education policy, and referendum elections. - Click here for it . Voters wil...

MUDs are among the smallest of the special districts, and are primarily a device used by developers to fund infrastructure, like "wate...

Just to add fuel to the fire regarding the consequences of low voter turnout: Here's a good look at how the political process - on the l...

The previous post mentioned that legislation had been introduced - bit not passed - in the recently completed regular session that sought to...

Early on in GOVT 2306 - in the discussion on local governments - the concept of a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is introduced. Simply put,...

The story below mentions a local governmental organization called the Houston First Corporation . We will be discussing local governments in...

File this story under local government - especially under local economic development . The Chronicle reports that efforts are underway by...

The comptroller's office has unveiled a site which helps determine the level of debt different cities, counties and special districts in...

A things to help wrap up our look in 2306 at local government. I'm just pulling applicable stories from KUHF's local news website (...

At the moment, the Port of Houston Authority ( a single purpose governing entity that controls the Port of Houston) is headed by a seven pe...

This builds off a post below regarding the rising level of local debt in the state. The Texas Comptrollers office has released a report - ...

Here's a story from Quorum Report about the rising debt in local governments (local jurisdictions they're called in the story) in Te...

For our discussion of single purpose governments, a look at the power of Houston's Downtown Management District . Houston's city cou...

The incumbent - as well as a member of the city council - appear to have been defeated because of their support of a Galveston Housing Auth...

From Texas Watchdog , an invitation to learn how to investigate quasi- governmental agencies, what we call single purpose local governments...

For 2301. File this under single purpose local government financing : Harris County taxpayers may have to inject up to $7 million a year int...