MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX — The old saying of “As goes California, so goes the Nation,” is definitely not the case now. America’s largest populated state is killing itself faster than a heroin junkie on Skid Row, and it shows with many of its residents, those that can afford it, fleeing the state in droves. The…
MONTGOMERY, TX — As the Montgomery County Memorial Library System charges headlong into 2025, we can look back to last year and see the growth that the county’s growing population has had on the library system, and how the entity is responding to the challenge. The adjustments being made are positive and innovative allowing library…
Texas lawmakers will have an estimated $194.6 billion available for general-purpose spending as they write the 2026-27 state budget, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced Jan. 13. This is down slightly from two years ago, Hegar said, when Texas had a “once-in-a-lifetime” amount of money in the bank. Ahead of the 2023 session, Hegar estimated lawmakers…
Hedge fund management company Pershing Square announced a proposal to merge with Howard Hughes in a Jan. 13 letter, which would see Pershing become a “larger, permanent” owner of the real estate development company. Two-minute impact Real estate development company Howard Hughes is the developer of a number of master-planned communities across the Houston region…
Single-family home sales in the Houston metro increased 1.3% in 2024 from 2023 after two consecutive years of declining sales, according to the Houston Association of Realtors December and Full Year Housing Market Update. In total, 85,163 single-family homes were sold in Houston in 2024, compared to 84,038 in 2023, according to the report. May…
The Montgomery ISD Education Foundation awarded $100,000 in grants—in honor of the district’s 100th anniversary—to campuses for student experiences and classroom equipment, according to a Jan. 10 district blog post. The overview Education foundation members, district administrators and local sponsors visited the district’s 11 campuses to award 32 educator grants on Jan. 10, according to…
Union Pacific aims to replace 600 railroad ties in Harris and Montgomery counties.
Clark Hearing, a hearing aid and protection clinic, is set to bring its fourth location to Montgomery in late January, said owner Cassie Clark in an email. The details The business offers hearing evaluations to detect hearing loss, hearing loss solutions and custom hearing protection to prevent hearing loss, Clark said. Clark Hearing also offers…
The Houston Fire Department will join more than 135 Texas emergency responders deployed Jan. 11 to help fight the ongoing wildfires in California, according to a Jan. 11 news release What’s happening? The local deployment group of firefighters from Houston, Baytown, Conroe, Needham and North Montgomery County fire departments will be led by Houston Fire…
Twelve of the top 50 master-planned communities in the country belong to Houston, according to the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Report by RCLCO, a real estate research firm. Additionally, sales of homes in master-planned communities in Houston represented 22% of sales among the 50 ranked communities. The ranking of the communities is based on total new…