💻 Fort Bend County Judge KP George is believed to have coordinated with his former chief of staff, Taral Patel, in posting from fake social media accounts in 2022, a new search warrant alleges. (Houston Landing)
📈 Harris County commissioners approved an 8% increase to the county's property tax rate, well above the normally allowed maximum of 3.5% to fill budget shortfalls caused by recent disasters. (KPRC)
🚍 Hundreds more Harris County detainees will be moved to Louisiana after the closure of a West Texas private jail, which previously housed about 500 pretrial people from Harris County. (Houston Public Media)
🐝 After the state set up an email inbox to keep track of Texans who make requests to change the sex on their driver's licenses, some LGBTQ activists spammed the email with the "Bee Movie" script. (KUT)
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