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HCTRA came into being in September 1983 after Harris County voters approved a $900 million bond referendum by a 7–3 margin to release up to $900 million in bonds to create two toll roads – the Hardy Toll Road and the Sam Houston Tollway – to improve the regional mobility and reduce traffic congestion in the Greater Houston area, an area known for rapid population growth.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
Counties in Texas have limited regulatory (ordinance) authority. [14] Counties in Texas do not have zoning power (except for limited instances). However, counties can collect a small portion of property tax and spend it to provide residents with needed services or to employ the power of eminent domain. The Harris County Administration Building
In one case, two men were arrested for operating a sex trafficking ring in the Houston area: Venezuelan national Pedro Gonzales and Brandon Andrews, a U.S. citizen and known sex trafficker with a ...
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said U.S.-owned border wall materials, which were available for sale, were pulled from an Arizona auction at the government's request. The Lonestar State had shown ...
Sam Houston's Texas. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78921-0. Hunt, Lenoir (1992). My Master, The Inside Story of Sam Houston and His Times, By His Former Slave Jeff Hamilton. State House Press. ISBN 978-1-933337-23-4. Haley, James L. (2015). Sam Houston. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ASIN B00VY161EI.
A special administrative measure (SAM) is a process under United States law (28 CFR 501.3; see also USAM title 9 chapter 24 — Requests for Special Confinement Conditions) whereby the United States Attorney General may direct the United States Bureau of Prisons to use "special administrative measures" regarding housing of and correspondence and visitors to specific inmates.
Betty Holekamp (1826–1902), German Texan pioneer, called the Betsy Ross of Texas; Sam Houston (1793–1863), first and third President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator and Governor of Texas; Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of Republic of Texas, called "Architect of Annexation"