Morning Roundup: Your democratic duty edition

Good morning, Houston. Are you registered to vote in the May 12 special election? If not, you'd better get on it: Harris County residents must deliver their registration applications to a county tax office by 4:45 p.m. today or have them postmarked before midnight tonight. Remember, if you don't vote, you give up your right to complain. And we will enforce that.

>> New organs, a new life: Maria Mendez, a 14-year-old girl, is enjoying real food for the first time in her life after doctors successfully completed a quadruple organ transplant in November. Mendez got a new liver, small bowel and two kidneys during the 14-hour operation, which has allowed her to be taken off the intravenous catheter she had been on her whole life. "Just to see her, already she is growing," Steven Wells, Mendez's family's minister, said. "She looks completely different. She has great color in her eyes. It's good to see her out of bed." Mendez's favorite foods so far: ice cream and macaroni. Sounds like she has excellent taste.

>> That's so stupid: Orlando Brown, a 19-year-old in the popular Disney show That's So Raven (at least we hear it's popular), was arrested in Houston early Tuesday and charged with marijuana possession. Police pulled Brown over in the 4200 block of Westheimer around 1 a.m. when they saw him driving without his headlights on; they found the pot in the driver's side door. Brown said he borrowed the car while he was in town to make an album: "I didn't know what was in the car. That's not what I do. I consider myself a youth activist," he said.

>> Speaking of pot: Police seized more than 8,900 pounds of marijuana Monday that they think might have been headed for Houston. The bust happened just east of Hebbronville in South Texas when officers pulled a truck with "fictitious markings" over and found 846 plastic-wrapped bundles of marijuana inside. It's the second-largest pot bust by the DPS during a routine traffic stop since 1997, officials said — the largest, during which police recovered 11,896 pounds of weed — happened in Bee County in 2004.

>> Today's weather: So yesterday turned out to be beautiful, and it looks like today will follow suit. Expect plenty of sunshine and a high of 82 this afternoon, with some clouds moving in tonight. Things will still be mild after dark, though, with a low of 65.

So, have you registered to vote yet? Just reminding you ...