Despite expending an extra $4 million to add a sixth academy class in 2025, the Houston Police Department is on pace to ...

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Whitmire said the city’s budget will be balanced, even as the finance department and controller’s office had projected a more than $200 million deficit. The details will be released Tuesday.

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The solid waste director has replaced the four-day work week with a traditional five-day work week after complaints of missed trash pickups.

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The leading candidate so far to replace him is perhaps the most powerful Democrat in Texas government: state Sen. John Whitmire. If he wins the mayoral race, Whitmire would not only close the ...