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Harris County Commissioners Approve $3.3 Billion Budget – Houston Public Media

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Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday unanimously approved a $3.3 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins in March.
While the overall budget is about the same as last year up about 2% it includes increased spending in some previously underfunded areas.
The budget includes roughly $2 billion in the general fund, with with an $8.4 million expansion of the Harris County Public Defender s Office, and increases in funding to public health and housing services.
In a statement, Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis said the budget was one he was proud of. ....

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Essay: Lina Hidalgo puts principle over politics at her own peril

Essay: Lina Hidalgo puts principle over politics at her own peril
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Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
It was about a week before Christmas and 29-year-old Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was on the phone talking turkey.
There were holiday giveaways going on all over town, a community leader on the line said. He wanted to know: would the county organize one in his neighborhood?
Hidalgo was sorry, she told him, but she couldn’t justify using her staff’s time, pulling them from their work on next year’s budget, to do a giveaway. Instead, she detailed what the county was doing to distribute congressional stimulus dollars to curtail food insecurity. ....

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