For Montgomery County residents, the message delivered at the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Symposium ...

FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer Viewer reveals that floodplain maps across Texas are updated with stunning irregularity.

Earlier this week, Chuck Stilwell of Harris County’s Community Flood Resilience Task Force and Joe Higgs of The Metropolitan ...

10/29/26 – In January this year, I wrote an editorial titled “How Government Secrecy Contributes to Flooding.” Unfortunately, ...

Harris County officials sold the $2.5 billion Flood Bond in 2018 on the basis of "worst first." Said another way, areas with ...

7/22/26 – (Updated at 3pm to correct funding figures.) Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger reported this morning that engineering for the Lake Houston Gates Project is now 90% complete.

Few people understand that floodplains are a shifting target. They are determined by LIDAR accurate to within a centimeter, ...

GLO Commissioner Dawn Buckingham M.D. has announced the launch of a $92 million program to reallocate flood mitigation funding along with a call for projects in eligible Texas communities until ...

The Lake Houston Dredging and Maintenance District held a board meeting this morning at the offices of Partnership Lake ...

2/3/26 – On 2/1/26, I printed a story about Steve Toth’s shocking voting record in 2021 and 2023. He called me dishonest, claiming I misrepresented his votes on five of the first six bills he checked ...