HTX-KTY: Impact 9/9/2025

Here are some indoor playgrounds for different ages in the Katy area. This list is not comprehensive.

Kanga’s Indoor Playcenter
This playground includes foam shooters, castles and bouncy houses. Birthday and after-hours parties can be arranged. Additional areas include the toddlers' area, the rock wall and the pirate ship.

• Age: 1-12 years old
• Cost: $17 (3-12 years old), $14 (1-2 years old), free (under 12 months old)
• 610 Katy Fort Bend Road, Katy

• Age: 6 months-12 years
• Cost: $15 (all-day admission)
• 20117 Park Row Blvd., Katy

Big Z’s Chicago Pizza & Brew will no longer relocate to Gaston Road following leasing issues, officials announced in a July 25 Facebook post.

The Chicago-inspired pizzeria closed its doors Jan. 28 at its original location at 2004 S. Mason Road, Katy, owner Bob Zincoris previously said.

On the menu: The eatery offered Chicago-inspired specialty pizzas as well as various salads and pastas, according to its website.

Going forward: In the Facebook post, Zincoris said they are still looking for next steps with hopes to reopen in the future.

• 10610 Gaston Road, Katy

Harris County commissioners will meet Sept. 9 with several agenda items addressing the fiscal year 2025-26 budget and elected officials’ salaries before the scheduled Sept. 18 budget vote and adoption.

The background: Commissioners and department leaders have spent the last eight-plus months weighing how to offset at least $102 million in cuts and other savings surrounding the projected $2.95 billion FY 2025-26 budget. Factors impacting county department cuts in the budget process, according to the proposed budget document, included jail costs, indigent defense costs, health care costs and law enforcement contracts.

Items worth mentioning: The county clerk and administration offices will request discussion as part of a Texas law that allows for the creation of a salary grievance committee for elected officials. Several officials from elected offices went to Commissioners Court seeking higher pay in August, including judges within the county’s district courts and the county’s eight elected constables.

Most Texas public schools are required to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms under Senate Bill 10, a state law that took effect Sept. 1.

The details: On Aug. 20, a Texas federal judge temporarily blocked the following 11 school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments:

• Alamo Heights ISD
• Austin ISD
• Cy-Fair ISD
• Dripping Springs ISD
• Fort Bend ISD
• Houston ISD
• Lackland ISD
• Lake Travis ISD
• North East ISD
• Northside ISD
• Plano ISD