April Towery
Dallas City Hall Reporter and Assistant Editor at CandysDirt.com
Journalist, editor, avid music fan & reality television watcher.
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1 day ago |
houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott got his priority school vouchers approved, which will give participating families about $10,000 for private education, but now school safety and discipline, DEI bans for K-12, religious education, teacher certification incentives, and cell phone bans are under consideration. “I think some of it will pass, some of it won’t pass,” said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University.
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2 days ago |
houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press
The New York Times reported that the United States and China said they would suspend their respective tariffs for 90 days while they determine the best path forward. Trump agreed to reduce the tariff on Chinese imports to 30 percent from its current 145 percent, while China says it will lower its import duty on American goods to 10 percent from 125 percent.
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3 days ago |
houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press
Whitmire was the featured speaker Thursday night at the Harris County Tejano Democrats’ monthly meeting. Before a crowd at the Leonel Castillo Community Center, Whitmire said he didn’t raise funds for Crenshaw and Houston officers are cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, not pursuing arrests and deportation.
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6 days ago |
houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press
Houston and Harris County are at the center of a years-long debate over bail reform: how to ensure that potentially violent suspects stay jailed while awaiting trial but not punishing or discriminating against poor people who may not be guilty of the crime they're accused of. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has made bail reform a priority, pointing to numerous recent headlines about murders committed while a suspect was out on bond. Former Harris County prosecutor Sen.
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1 week ago |
houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press
Jordan, 69, was convicted of capital murder in the October 14, 1977, shooting death of 40-year-old Joe L. Williams, a clerk at Rice Food Market in Houston, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice records. Prior to his incarceration, Jordan completed seven years of education, and Texas courts have declared him mentally incompetent. Ben Wolff, director of the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs in Austin, took Jordan’s case late last year.
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