Your City Hall settled a big lawsuit this week

So okay— your city council has been busy, even with all the talk about the Texans draft picks and the Astros' rotation. The big news that dropped Wednesday, May 14th, is that a lawsuit against a former candidate for sexual misconduct has been settled out of court. Now, the official release is tight-lipped, not giving names or ward numbers, which, you know, is how these things go sometimes. But for those of us who follow City Hall, these settlements always make you wonder about the bigger picture.

Wait wait wait, let me back up— you know what else is happening? Houston Landing, that non-profit news organization doing some really important work, just held their "Final Storytellers Event" on Thursday, May 15th. They were exploring the meaning and power of family, which, in a city like Houston, where we have every culture you can imagine from Alief to Sugar Land, hits different. Their CEO, Peter Bhatia, also sent out a farewell note Friday, May 16th. It makes you think about how our local media landscape is shifting and who's going to keep holding power accountable.

H-Town on the wire — no limits, no zoning, no excuses. What's next for how we keep our city informed? That's what I'm watching.

Mai and the squad dig into all this every day — tune in live at mornings.live.