Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune The last time there was an open seat in Texas Senate District 15, it was 1982. The last time there was an open seat in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, it was 1989. Now, the heavily Democratic districts in Houston could be vacant again. It all …
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Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is joining the Houston mayoral race, scrambling the already crowded field. “Sheila Jackson Lee wants to come home to be your mayor for the city of Houston,” Jackson Lee said at a church event Sunday. “I will not be able …
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President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill to recognize Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the United States — as a federal holiday. “Juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and the promise of a brighter morning to come,” …
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