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.

The City Council created Houston's first protected historic district Wednesday, shielding more than 200 buildings from demolition in the Old Sixth Ward. Preservationists hailed the 12-1 vote as a ...