Pearland trustee Toni Carter won a Texas Library Association award for defending librarians and student access as districts grapple with book removals.

Council members pressed staff for a full accounting after records showed Downtown Dallas Inc got $1M+ in stipends and the city authorized a $1M food‑bank award. They want clearer rules about what counts as a stipend.

Arthur Schechter, 86, a longtime Houston lawyer, former U.S. ambassador and Metro chair, died April 13. Colleagues and city leaders remembered his decades of civic and philanthropic work.

San Antonio has started posting a log of when SAPD assists ICE, revealing three calls since late January and itemizing officers and personnel costs. The city uploaded a police memo to its immigrant affairs data page.

Hochul is urging employers and the state marketplace to help cover roughly 450,000 New Yorkers who will lose zero‑premium Essential Plan benefits this July.

A Salt Lake Tribune review shows companies courting Utah’s bid for a federal nuclear campus gave tens of thousands to Gov. Spencer Cox and other officials.

Pinellas County School Board will vote Tuesday on proposed bell-time changes at four schools. The plan reshuffles bus routes and has drawn pushback from families.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a petition asking the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants and some children from state counts, saying the 2020 tally shortchanged Florida.

Tigard is asking voters to approve a roughly $150M bond to replace aging police and public works buildings; city leaders say the current sites are cramped and seismically vulnerable.

A coalition of Memphis nonprofits rolled out a "Moral Budget" urging tax increases to fund housing, youth mental health and transit ahead of the mayor's FY26 budget.

A proposed House bill would add a knowledge test to Class E license renewals, setting an 80% pass mark and a 2028 rollout window while lawmakers debate logistics.

The D.C. Council nixed a $25M plan to buy 18 engines after the District paid nearly $900K for designs, prompting union and ethics concerns.

OPM asked 65 insurers to send monthly claims-level medical and pharmacy data covering more than 8 million federal workers and families, prompting legal and privacy alarms.