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Economically, Harris County along with other Texas counties has one of the nation's highest property tax rates. In 2007, the county was ranked in the top 25 at 22nd in the nation for property taxes as percentage of the homes value on owner-occupied housing; the list only includes counties with a population over 65,000 for comparability. [23]
The City of Stafford stopped levying nonschool property taxes in 1995. It is the only Houston-area city and the most populous city in Texas to do so. Sales and franchise taxes from businesses fund the city. [15] From 1969 to 2020, Stafford's mayor was Leonard Scarcella. By 2018, he was the longest-serving mayor in the United States.
Santa Fe County, Texas formed in 1848 from lands claimed by the Republic of Texas and ceded by Mexico. It included a vast area later becoming portions of several states from New Mexico east of the Rio Grande extending northward into south-central Wyoming. Within Texas' modern boundaries, the county included the Trans-Pecos and most of the ...
River Oaks is within Harris County Precinct 4. [88] As of 2020, R. Jack Cagle is the precinct's County Commissioner. [89] River Oaks is in Justice of the Peace/Constable Precinct One. As of 2012 Alan Rosen is the constable. [90] River Oaks is located in District 134 of the Texas House of Representatives and represented by Ann Johnson, a ...
The Biden-Harris administration recently asked my longtime friend, Attorney General Ken Paxton, to embrace a federal attempt to impose rent control in our state, which would have effectively ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
Harris’s tax proposals, on the other hand, could create headwinds for the luxury market. Her plan to increase capital gains tax to 28% plus an additional 5% for high earners could impact ...
The 42,000 square feet (3,900 m 2) Clear Lake City–County Freeman Branch is administered by Harris County Public Library, and is funded in part by the Houston Public Library. The Freeman Branch Library, named after Theodore C. Freeman, opened in 1964. It moved to the Harris County multipurpose annex in 1976.