With Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives getting movement on legislation that would grant the District of Columbia statehood, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined the chorus of voices raising objections.
The Houston area has become a major hub for home schooling as the number of families choosing to take a direct role in their children’s education saw a significant surge during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As President Joe Biden draws comparisons between the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan he has proposed and the space race, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner indicated he believes Houston is well-placed to participate.
Private equity firm ZT Corporate's CEO Taseer Badar has joined the Crime Stoppers Houston board, a move that the organization hopes will help to forward its mission through Badar's personal passion for solution-oriented approaches.
The Houston area, which has previously lagged only slightly behind the nation in unemployment, has seen a much harder hit than the national average, with 8% unemployment to end December, compared to 6.5% nationwide.
The University of Houston’s C. T. Bauer College of Business is offering seven degree programs fully online, including its Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degrees.
The Sunnyside Solar Project, a planned 240-acre solar farm to be installed on the site of a former landfill in the Sunnyside neighborhood, will be the largest urban solar farm in the nation once completed.
TeamUP for Houston is heading into its fourth year of using sports as a way of helping youth from underserved communities, but now with a virtual format.
Ranked fifth in the nation’s largest metro areas as a hub of minority entrepreneurship by fintech company Self, the City of Houston still has hurdles in the way of minority-owned startups.
A city-wide coalition of stakeholders aiming to revitalize Houston’s parks was recently joined by several new corporate sponsors as the 50/50 Park Partners began construction at Hartman Park, the first park the coalition has taken on.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the Port of Houston $19.5 million in federal funding and a “new start” designation for the Houston Ship Channel Expansion Channel Improvement Project.
The Coalition for the Homeless of Houston and Harris County is conducting its annual point-in-time homeless count, a normally involved task made all the more important and difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported that wind energy is exerting growing significance in Texas, with 18% of the electricity produced in 2019 from wind turbines, compared to 6% in 2010.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration recently awarded $35 million in entrepreneurship grants to 52 separate organizations, with $1.5 million going to Rice University.
The City of Houston is withdrawing from the City-County Housing Stability Task Force created to address the emerging housing crisis during the first months of the economic crisis created by restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In many countries around the world, in-person education is the standard this year, the Heritage Foundation reported, yet Texas students will be spending at least the first three weeks learning from home environments, the Texas Tribune said.
Most Texas students will spend the first three weeks of the school year learning online from home, the Texas Tribune reported, despite evidence indicating no significant risk for in-person instruction.
As schools enter a new year, there continue to be concerns about disengaging students from the educational process, and the Houston Independent School District (Houston ISD) has only located a fraction of the students who fell off the radar last spring.
As the debate over how children receive instruction this school year runs down to the wire, CDC Director Robert Redfield has come down firmly on the side of reopening schools for in-person education.