Off the Kuff considers the legacy of Lina Hidalgo, who will not be running for re-election as Harris County Judge. (My take from up north is a bit harsher.)
The Monthly profiles Amir Omar, Richardson's first Muslim mayor. He talks about his work as mayor, in the main, but also his Palestinian and Iranian heritage.
Per the Observer, the Lege in 2027 should do a major overhaul of the opioid settlement fund.
Havana Ted defending the First Amendment in the wake of FCC chair Brendan Carr threatening ABC about "the easy way or the hard way" over Jimmy Kimmel was not on my bingo card.
At the state level, former House Speaker McDade Phelan is throwing some mild elbows at fellow GOPers over Charlie Kirk.
Neil at the Houston Democracy Project asked if Houston elected Democrats won’t speak up on the racial purge represented by the ICE assault on the Latino working class in cooperation with HPD, how can we count on them to be of use when trans people start getting rounded-up?
The Waco Bridge analyzes how the new Congressional map makes CD17 a little less red.
The Texas Signal highlights a new comic strip about a group of jazz musicians in the Jim Crow South and how they cope.
Texas Monthly documents what happened in Odessa after a group of fanatics won control of the local government, and then they had to actually govern.
Law Dork explains the judge's order that dismissed Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit against the NY Times.

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