Mike Morris

The Texas Legislature may close loopholes in a tax incentive program that lets cities and counties give public funds to private businesses with no limits.

In a 2019 interview with the Houston Chronicle, former U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner talked about the hurdles he had to overcome in his early years in politics.

A former Midtown development agency official and two vendors were charged with felonies last summer, accused of misusing some $8.5 million in public funds.

Houston’s Midtown development zone has spent more than $150 million in the last three decades on affordable housing initiatives in Third Ward.

Houston’s controversial development zones have disproportionately benefited wealthy areas, Baker Institute study finds.

Harris County Commissioners kept a policy of subsidizing extra police patrols for neighborhoods that can afford them despite two commissioners' early protests.

Harris County’s rightward swing on Tuesday gave Republicans 10 judicial benches, the party’s best showing at the courthouse in a decade.

Mayor John Whitmire launches “pay to play” ethics investigation into Controller Chris Hollins’ decision to solicit sponsorships for a financial conference.

Houston Mayor Whitmire is 'making good' on campaign promises to clean up corruption after arrest of Midtown Redevelopment Authority official, spokeswoman says.

Top Harris County health official fired as $6M contract is scrutinized

Everyday Houstonians aren’t the only ones fed up with CenterPoint Energy’s inadequate communication about its work to restore power after Hurricane Beryl. Even senior officials at City Hall, records show, have struggled to get the utility’s help powering up “life safety critical infrastructure,” including water and sewer plants. In a 1 a.m. Thursday email, Houston TranStar director Brian Mason urged CenterPoint officials to help restore power to a south side water plant — “needed ASAP to preven…

Here’s a breakdown of the crucial decisions that laid the foundation for the extreme outlier approach to law enforcement that Harris County uses today.

The Midtown Redevelopment Authority has spent millions of tax dollars acquiring almost 500 lots in and around Third Ward, hoping to slow gentrification in the historic Black neighborhood and build affordable housing on the land. And for years, residents have complained that hundreds of the agency’s still-vacant lots have become overgrown, homes only for tires and trash, drug deals, even an open-air brothel. How could this be, residents wondered, when Midtown was paying companies millions of doll…

A long-time city and county vendor who donated heavily to local politicians and raked in...

Texas’ largest corporate incentive program is dead — for now — but a rush of applications as the law expired has put taxpayers on the hook.

The Houston Chronicle’s latest investigation found tax increment financing traps public...

Texans are being asked to conserve electricity Monday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., when state...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is proposing to reduce the information his office collects...

Local officials across Texas are spending untold millions to lure companies to their...

By the time the storm passes through Texas, it is expected to dump 5 to 10 inches across...