Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo overall received the lowest net-approval rating based on job performance of any elected ...

More than half of Harris County voters say the county is moving in the wrong direction — and they're sizing up local leaders and would-be county judges ahead of the 2026 election, per a recent ...

Chronicle readers are invited to a private Zoom with former Houston Mayor Annise Parker as she runs to replace Lina Hidalgo as Harris County Judge.

Fifty-five percent of respondents said they approved of the job Gonzalez is doing, and 22 percent disapprove, netting the ...

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker. Photo illustration by Kyle Neal. Years before Annise Parker was elected Houston’s mayor in 2010, she encountered a 17-year-old unsheltered youth.

Annise Parker spent 18 years at City Hall: three terms as council member, three as city controller and finally three as mayor. She was Houston's second female mayor and the first openly-gay head ...

When Annise Parker won her first Houston mayoral race back in 2009, the Houston Chronicle described her as “the first contender in a generation to defeat the hand-picked candidate of Houston’s ...

Annise Parker made worldwide headlines in 2009 when Houston voters elected her as the city’s first openly gay mayor. Houston became the largest city in America at the time to elect a gay ...

From the editor: The following interview is from the Texas Observer magazine. We felt readers would want to know what the former mayor is saying. Texas Observer: When people talk about the failure ...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker (R) marries her long-term partner Kathy Hubbard in a ceremony in Palm Springs, California on January 16, 2014 in this image released to Reuters on January 17, 2014.

Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker joined the Rice faculty on May 1 as a professor in practice. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search Fog icon. 54 ...

OUSTON, TX- Today, Mayor Annise Parker joined BARC Animal Shelter and Adoptions and the new parents of some of Mayor Parker's BARC Pets of the Week to celebrate new families that formed, thanks to ...