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The new year has brought a dramatic change of tone regarding the enforcement of marijuana laws in Texas. Earlier this week, new Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg declared that her office would no longer seek to put small-time cannabis offenders...

Robin Davidson is Houston's current poet laureate. I was pleased to have a conversation with her about what her new position entails, and what she plans to do to promote the art of poetry in one of the country's largest and most diverse cities. Shivani...

HOUSTON—Perhaps nowhere is this city’s dual identity as a left-leaning metropolis in a conservative state more evident than in the debate over LGBT rights. Last November, voters here rejected an equal-rights ordinance—the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance...

150 members of the Houston GLBT Political Caucus met on Saturday to consider endorsements in the November 5, 2013 Houston municipal races and races for Houston Independent School District and Houston Community College System. Mayor Annise Parker and...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker officially left office Saturday after six years leading the nation’s fourth-largest city. Parker became the first openly LGBT person elected mayor of a major US city in 2009. She was re-elected twice but was term-limited...