Throughout his first year in office, Mayor John Whitmire has consistently mentioned one solution for addressing the city’s financial struggles – turning to his connections in Austin.

When I did a roundup of former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner's tweets last year, I predicted that "time will tell if his successor, Sen. John Whitmire, will be even half as amusing." Talk about ...

Whitmire is not an exception to that rule; the company employs several of his former staffers from the state Senate, and he once invested hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars in CenterPoint ...

“I think we’ve made a huge difference,” the mayor said. After more than 50 years in the Texas Senate, Whitmire’s entry into the mayor’s office at Houston City Hall served as a radical ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston Mayor John Whitmire and city officials held a press conference on Monday evening to discuss the final preparations ahead of the winter storm hitting southeast Texas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would require ...

Whitmire is nearing the end of his first year in office and covered a variety of topics with Goulding. The mayor has said from day one that public safety has been a huge focus for him as mayor.

The Oconee County Legislative Delegation is scheduled to meet with local residents during its annual delegation meeting on Jan. 23, according to delegation chairman and S.C. Senate ...

But those connections might not come to fruition the way the former state senator has long promised. In a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle, Whitmire admitted that where he thought he ...