by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Aug 14, 2026 | Insight
Most people watching Harris County Commissioners Court are tracking budget shortfalls and headcount. Investors and developers should be watching something else entirely: the county is actively working through what to do with a real estate portfolio worth billions of...
by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Aug 12, 2026 | Insight
Statewide Trends, the County’s Pending Lawsuit, and Where the Real Opportunity Still Sits. If you’ve followed this series, you know MWBE public comment has shown up at nearly every Commissioners Court meeting we’ve covered this summer — most recently on August 6, when...
by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Aug 10, 2026 | Insight
If you’ve been following this series, you know the pattern: we tracked the infrastructure working group fight in July, we broke down the FY27 budget shortfall before it hit the agenda, and we walked through what happens as the ARPA fund closes out for good. This week,...
by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Jul 22, 2026 | Insight
If you own a business in the Houston area, you’ve probably heard both terms thrown around — Commissioners Court and City Council — and assumed they’re basically the same thing with different names. They’re not. And that mix-up costs business owners real opportunities...
by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Jul 21, 2026 | Insight
Every summer, Harris County Commissioners Court runs a budget process that gets a fraction of the attention the City of Houston’s gets — and yet it shapes just as much of what happens in our neighborhoods. This year, that process deserves a closer look. The...
by Tiko Reynolds-Hausman | Jul 19, 2026 | Insight
Commissioners Court finalized a new countywide infrastructure working group— but not before scaling back how much authority the County Administrator’s office would hold over it. What Happened Over three meetings this summer (June 11, June 25, July 9, 2026),...
