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As with the majority of home-rule cities in Texas, La Porte has a charter for a council-manager form of government. The elected council members serve as a legislative body to make policy; they hire the city manager, who is the operating officer for the city. Since 2012, the city manager has been Corby Alexander, from Henderson, Texas. Elections ...
Ellen Troxclair is an American small business owner and politician who is a member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 19. A member of the Republican Party, Troxclair was the youngest woman ever elected to the Austin City Council, [2] where she served the 8th district from 2015 to 2019.
The following Texas cities have ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, public accommodations, city employment, private employment and city contractors. Austin, [137] Dallas, [138] Fort Worth, [139] [140] Plano [141] and San Antonio [142] [143] prohibit discrimination on the basis ...
Wichita Falls (/ ˈ w ɪ tʃ ɪ t ɑː / WITCH-i-tah) is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States. [6] It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay, and Wichita Counties.
Ruthe Jackson (October 29, 1920 - August 9, 2013) was an American community organizer. She held a seat on the city council of Grand Prairie, Texas, and produced and hosted the longest-running Public-access television cable TV show in Texas.
Live from Austin, TX is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on New West Records in 2006.As part of New West's series of albums featuring individual artists' performances on Austin City Limits, it was recorded on April 1, 1989, several months after the release of Full Circle, Jennings' last album for MCA Records, and a year before the singer's move to Epic Records would yield The Eagle.
Among the changes enacted was a reduction of the size of the two-chambered, 190-member City Council to a unicameral, smaller body. The city was divided into eight districts, which elected multiple members based on their relative populations. The system stayed in place until 1951, when a new city charter changed the system to a different model.
In 1977 he attended both Texas Southern University and the University of Houston. [1] In 1979 he was elected to the Houston City Council. He served in District I for 16 years; he left due to term limits. [5] As a city council member he arranged the demolitions of various houses that housed criminal activities. [1] His final year of service was ...