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Houston politicians really are men and women of the people. Tonight, State Rep. Ellen Cohen will host a town hall meeting at Rice University to hear from her constituents about education in Texas. There will be two presentations, one by former Lt.-Gov. Bill Ratliff, of Raise Your Hand Texas, and a second by students from Lamar and Bellaire High Schools discussing tuition deregulation. After this, there will of course be time for comments and questions...

Houstonist stayed up half the night glued to our television just to bring you the latest election results, locally, state-wide, and nationally. Let's look at how things went down yesterday. Locally: Much to the mayor's delight, propositions A-H all passed. This means good things for Houston's libraries, parks, police force, airports, etc. Mayor White is keeping the city moving, literally and figuratively. The Chronicle offers complete election results, but we're going to look at a...

Martha Wong, whose ideas are literally so bad that they get laughed down, is generating some more bad press for herself. First, she was getting busted for covering up the word "Republican" on her campaign signs, then she got busted touting programs she voted against (like children's healthcare), now she's in trouble for using HISD superintendent Abe Saavedra's name as an endorsement without his permission in on of her advertisements.

About 350 people turned out yesterday to hear Houstonians tell the Metro board what they think about the route of the proposed University light rail line, and the message was a resounding "We're not sure what we think." Metro's plan to run most of the line along Richmond Avenue rather than Westpark, as originally proposed, has drawn concern and continued to do so Thursday: Whatever the board decides late this year, it should "keep the...

We here at Houstonist are practically apolitical, but we love Houston Rockets sportscaster Lisa Malosky. Therefore, in a completely bipartisan and apolitical way, we recommend all Lisa Malosky fans to check out the campaign kickoff for Ellen Cohen, where Lisa Malosky is going to be speaking.