Sylvester Turner - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/sylvester-turner/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:23:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sylvester Turner - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/sylvester-turner/ 32 32 103504436 Northpark Drive Expansion Starting Today https://houstonnewmedia.org/northpark-drive-expansion-starting-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=northpark-drive-expansion-starting-today Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:23:24 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=38704 On 4/13/23 at 8 A.M. sharp, Northpark Drive expansion started after 10 years of planning. Dignitaries gathered in the parking lot of a local business for the groundbreaking ceremony even as surveyors were already working father east and Harper Brothers Construction started prepositioning equipment. This project will make Kingwood safer in the next big flood. […]

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]]> 580459 New GLO Review Slams Houston on Five Counts Relating to Harvey Relief https://houstonnewmedia.org/new-glo-review-slams-houston-on-five-counts-relating-to-harvey-relief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-glo-review-slams-houston-on-five-counts-relating-to-harvey-relief Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:24:45 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=29676 Two months ago, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) launched a review of Houston’s Housing and Community Development Department (HHCD) after Mayor Sylvester Turner allegedly tried to steer a $14 million affordable-housing contract using HUD money toward his former law partner. The GLO review, released Tuesday, notes both findings and corrective actions required of Houston […]

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]]> 207217 Looking Through the Wrong End of the Drainpipe: The Politics of Misdirection https://houstonnewmedia.org/looking-through-the-wrong-end-of-the-drainpipe-the-politics-of-misdirection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-through-the-wrong-end-of-the-drainpipe-the-politics-of-misdirection Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:35:38 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=26869 Seventh in a series of eight articles on flood-mitigation funding in Harris County. For the last two years, I’ve heard the same tirades in commissioners’ court – that rich neighborhood’s get all the flood-mitigation money while the poor neighborhoods get none. According to Commissioners Ellis and Garcia, that’s because higher home values in rich neighborhoods […]

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]]> 137381 World AIDS Day Hits Home in Houston With Candid Project Runway Winner and Prevention Crusader https://houstonnewmedia.org/world-aids-day-hits-home-in-houston-with-candid-project-runway-winner-and-prevention-crusader/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-aids-day-hits-home-in-houston-with-candid-project-runway-winner-and-prevention-crusader Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:04:07 +0000 https://www.papercitymag.com/?p=260341 With the sobering revelation that there are 26,000 cases of HIV/AIDS in the Houston area and 2,500 new cases occurring each year, the importance of AIDS Foundation Houston’s mission and its annual World AIDS Day luncheon was paramount during the ...

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