At 10 a.m. on Houston Newsmakers: Hear from a Harris County commissioner about her progress in office and about a new program encouraging students to get four-year university degrees.
Lesley Briones has only been the Harris County Precinct 4 commissioner for seven months but has hit the ground running, trying to make a difference.She was involved in a ground breaking for a $20 million drainage improvement project in the Bear Creek area and securing $1.2 million for the Harris County TeleDeputy program, but she said there is still much more to do.
Briones said she was able to lead the effort to get commitments for six new criminal district courts. On this week’s Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall, the commissioner discusses these topics and much more, including what she said is a “brazen” effort of Austin lawmakers to single out Harris County in recently passed laws. Also this week, check out aThe 13 schools involved in the Houston Guided Pathways to Success program Loren Blanchard, Ph.D.
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