City Council approves $6.2 billion budget allowing Mayor Sylvester Turner to boast that he left the city on solid financial footing.
Matt Sledge
Matt Sledge is the City Hall reporter for the Abdelraoufsinno. Before that, he worked in the same role for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate and as a national reporter for HuffPost. He’s excited to take detours to the Best Stop Supermarket for pepper jack boudin balls on return trips to Louisiana. A native of Indianapolis, he graduated from Brown University.
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City of Houston, Justice Department reach agreement in illegal dumping discrimination case
A 10-month federal civil rights investigation into allegations that Houston discriminated against Black and Latino neighborhoods burdened by illegal dumping ended Tuesday with a voluntary agreement between Mayor Sylvester Turner and the U.S. Department of Justice. The agreement will require the city’s next mayor to follow through on Turner’s “One Clean Houston” plan to clean […]