Harris County approves an 8% property tax hike, exceeding the usual 3.5% limit, affecting homeowners from October 1.

Harris County Commissioners Court voted to increase property taxes from 3.5 percent to 8 percent under next fiscal year's ...

Younger voters in Washington are more optimistic about the November election than the general population, in part because of ...

Madison, Wis., and its blossoming suburbs are drawing newcomers for tech and health care jobs. With a swing state in the ...

The notion of Waukesha County’s political muscle became an ongoing joke, but Democratic inroads in recent years mean the ...

Back by popular demand, The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter is pleased to introduce our 2024 Demographic Swingometer — ...

Much of the attention each presidential election cycle centers on swing states where the outcome can have an outsize impact ...

There are some signs of revitalization: Luzerne County ... Harris has won back some of the younger, racially diverse voters ...

Homelessness spending in Los Angeles must more than double to $2 billion a year to end sleeping on the streets in the city, ...

Interstate 45, also known as the Gulf Freeway, connects Harris County’s exploding population to Galveston County, which is ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter warning Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and the Harris and Bexar county commissioners to not send voter registration applications to "unverified ...

The attorney general pointed to his 2020 suit against a similar effort to send out vote-by-mail applications to all registered voters in Harris County — a move he credited the following year for ...