LANDSLIDE WIN: John Whitmire elected Houston mayor in race he dominated from start to finish Here are some of the key things ...

Throughout the mayoral campaign, Whitmire pledged to use his experience and relationships with state leaders to solve Houston ...

John Whitmire, D-Houston ... The office is nonpartisan, though Whitmire has served in the Senate as a Democrat since 1983, making him the chamber’s most senior member. Whitmire ran on a platform ...

In a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle, Whitmire admitted that where he ... like the urban areas because they do tend to be more Democratic, and it's true of every major city in the ...

When Mayor John Whitmire prepared to oversee the final ... Some of them still have the mentality, 'Oh, those are those liberal democratic cities.' I gotta convince them that we're doing things ...

will see the renegotiation of a contract with the police union and the launch of a new initiative to combat the presence of ...

"I think that Sheila Jackson Lee and Judge Hidalgo come from a very similar kind of progressive wing of the Democratic Party. John Whitmire does not. He has a much more kind of conservative take ...

Between a deal with the firefighters union and an investigation at the police department, it’s been a busy year.

A crowded field of candidates is competing in the nonpartisan race to elect Houston’s next mayor, including Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, a 15-term congresswoman, and John Whitmire, a longtime ...