Houston has always been a contender in the race for better, faster, ... In 1928, the wards disappeared from the city maps altogether as other landmarks — Memorial Park, ...

Houston's Third Ward braces for state redistricting plans NPR's Ari Shapiro ... The Justice Department is accusing Texas Republicans of drawing a congressional map that illegally discriminates ...

Plan 1A. The Houston Community College Board of Trustees approved a new redistricting map on Wednesday, but failed to re-unify a portion of District 4 that includes the Third Ward community.. The ...

Though the ward system in Houston was abandoned in 1906, the six neighborhoods retain strong senses of place and provide residents a tangible link, through architecture, to history and identity ...

In Houston's Third Ward, Change Brings Questions : The Two-Way Houston is a rapidly changing city, and a state lawmaker is fighting to keep that change from destroying its Third Ward.