HTX-LHK: Impact 9/9/2025

Humble ISD officials are hosting a job fair for auxiliary positions in the district’s transportation and custodial departments from 5-7 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Humble ISD Collaboration Center, located at 10201 Birchridge Drive, Humble.

The specifics: According to a Sept. 5 news release, officials will be hiring for the positions in the district’s transportation department at the following rates:

• School bus drivers: $20 per hour
• Auxiliary school bus drivers: $20.50 per hour
• Special education school bus drivers: $20.75 per hour
• School bus attendant: $12.75 per hour
• Dispatch: $16.41 per hour
• Trainer: $16.41 per hour
• Routing supervisor: $16.41 per hour

This November, a special election will be held to fill the vacant Texas 18th Congressional District seat after incumbent Sylvester Turner, who also previously served as Houston mayor, died March 4.

More details: The upcoming election comes after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new congressional map into law Aug. 29, which Texas lawmakers said will help them gain up to five more Republican congressional seats during the 2026 midterm elections.

The last day to register to vote is Oct. 6. Early voting begins Oct. 20, and Election Day is Nov. 4.

Fifteen candidates are running to fill City Council member At-Large Position 4 Letitia Plummer’s seat, after she announced her candidacy for the Harris County judge position July 8, effectively resigning her post on council.

Meet the candidates: Read more to learn more about the candidates running. 

Obes Nwabara, who previously declared his intentions to run for City Council, announced in a Sept. 2 social media post that he has suspended his campaign because of the "current threat faced by marginalized communities in our city" and his belief that the city needs to unite behind a single candidate.

More details: If elected, the candidate will remain in the seat until the term ends Jan. 1, 2028.

The last day to register to vote is Oct. 6. Early voting begins Oct. 20, and Election Day is Nov. 4.

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