This Week in Texas: Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Posted December 5, 2018 in The Mignon Memo

A Day of Mourning.

Governor Abbott has declared today a day of mourning to honor President George H.W. Bush.  All state agencies, offices and departments are to be closed with skeleton crews running for crucial government operations. To read more…

Judge Emmett to teach at Rice University.

Outgoing Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, has announced he will begin teaching at Rice University in January as a professor and senior fellow of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. His first class will focus on policy and the Texas Legislature. To read more…

It’s coming….

34 days until the Texas Legislature convenes on January 8, 2019. Get pumped up!

Only in Austin…

Sunday the Texas Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony was held to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah. To read more…