Politics & Policy
September 4, 2017
A Communitarian View of Hurricane Harvey
Guest column: Houston’s strength is in its citizens.
Houston
Politics & Policy
February 21, 2014
The Making of Barbara Jordan
A look back at the career of one of Texas's most remarkable politicians.
Politics & Policy
July 2, 2010
Ethnic change in Houston
Dr. Richard Murray, the University of Houston political scientist and TV commentator, recently posted on the Channel 13 Web site some numbers about population trends in Harris County. The latest estimates show most of the growth in Texas and the Houston metro area is driven by the increasing
Politics & Policy
December 16, 2009
How Houston Hispanics voted, uh, didn’t vote
Every election cycle Democrats look for signs that the Hispanic vote is going to reach the breakout stage. And every election cycle it doesn’t happen. Political consultant Marc Campos sent out the figures for the major Hispanic precincts in the mayoral runoff. His commentary: Every H-Town Latino political player ought
Politics & Policy
October 27, 2008
Zogby/Chronicle: Olson +17 vs. Lampson, Culberson +7 vs. Skelly
Not surprising, except for the size of the margin. Pete Olson used to work for Cornyn, and the Cornyn people told me last week he had it won. As one Democratic operative reminded me yesterday, this is a district in which Shelley Sekula-Gibbs got 30,000 write-in votes in 2006. Also,
Politics & Policy
October 25, 2008
Zogby: Obama, Noriega lead in Harris County (but read the fine print)
In a Zogby poll taken for the Houston Chronicle to coincide with the start of early voting, the results showed Barack Obama with a 7-point lead over John McCain in Harris County and Rick Noriega with a similar lead over John Cornyn. The poll was published by the