During the 85th legislative session, I worked on many issues impacting not only District 147, but all Texans. Below are highlights of my achievements this session and what I look forward to working on during the interim.

A 2007 San Angelo Central High School graduate and Houston, Texas native is a part of a Navy team tasked to protect the skies over the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.

Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott today attended and provided the luncheon keynote at the first annual Heart of Business Summit. The Summit is hosted by Austin Gives, a program of the Austin Chamber of Commerce that recognizes and encourages business …

This morning on News One Now, Host and Managing Editor Roland Martin discussed the impact of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement with Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, director of the University of Georgia’s …

The beginning of summer has been busy here at City Hall. As many of you may have seen, City Council passed the $5.2 billion Fiscal Year 2018 Operating Budget this week, which includes $2.4 billion from the tax-generated General Fund. …

A decisive majority of educators at a leading North Philadelphia charter high school have filed for an official union election with the National Labor Relations Board and will vote imminently to join the American Federation of Teachers.

“The library’s attempt to silence Lesley suggests that the library director is afraid of words,” Lesley Williams's attorney states as Library seeks termination over critical Facebook post; community members call on Mayor Hagerty to intervene

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and U.S. Representative Will Hurd (TX-23) released the following statements after their bipartisan legislation, the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act, was signed into law by President Trump today. The legislation prioritizes U.S. Department of Justice …

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee released the following statement about LGBT Pride Month:

Five Years ago, Texas voluntarily gave up $30 million a year in federal funding for women’s health programs, just so it could exclude Planned Parenthood from the roster of approved providers.

W.T. Stevens Construction, a Black-owned construction firm with about 25 employees, has been awarded a multi-million dollar service contract to replace more than 18,000 lead corroded pipes across the city of Flint, Michigan.

Miss Black Texas 2016 Carmen Ponder said she experienced road rage from the police chief of Commerce Kerry Crews. While driving her vehicle Ponder passed a vehicle that was driving erratically. I

The iconic statue of Sam Houston has been a focal point seen in Houston’s Hermann Park since 1925.

Several sponsors, including Goya Foods, AT&T, Corona, Coca-Cola, JetBlue, the Yankees and television stations Univision, Telemundo and NBC-TV, have pulled out of this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade set to take place in New York City on June 11th, following …

Residents in Texas City thought they were just getting a sweet gift when plastic bags filled with candy and American flags hit their doorsteps. But the bags held more, an invitation to join the KKK.