Houston City Controller Chris Hollins is adding his voice to concerns raised by Mayor John Whitmire about the city's finances. The city may soon need to raise taxes. At Houston City Council last week, ...

After a nine-candidate race in 2019, only three are vying to fill the At-Large Position 5 seat in the November elections. Sallie Alcorn, the incumbent who defeated Eric Dick in the 2019 election, is ...

Houston's property taxes are not going up, after the state announced Wednesday that it would infuse $50 million in disaster relief funds to southeast Texas communities ravaged by the May derecho and ...

“Gangly Leslie Knopes”: That’s how Sallie Alcorn identifies herself on X (formerly Twitter), and the comparison works. Like the “Parks and Recreation” character, the incumbent for Houston City Council ...

Sallie Alcorn has gotten pretty good at dodging traffic while riding her late father's blue Schwinn bicycle around the Bayou City. On a recent weekday, the at-large Houston City Council member skirted ...

Houston officials on Wednesday authorized an eyebrow-raising deal allowing $30 million to be spent from the city's stormwater fund to demolish blighted buildings. Council Members Edward Pollard, ...

HOUSTON — Houston City Councilwoman Sallie Alcorn was marked for Ash Wednesday while discussing Madonna. Not the mother of Jesus or the Material Girl, but the name on a street sign in her neighborhood ...