Jackson City Council scheduled consideration of a roughly $3.2 million budget adjustment as property-tax collections trailed projections and a memo set a July 31 deadline to revise the fiscal-year budget.
Madison’s Finance Department has updated the city’s budget-process information as agencies, the Finance Committee and Common Council begin the stages that will shape the 2027 budget.
A federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking unredacted personal information from New Mexico voter records, according to the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office.
Houston City Council approved Mayor John Whitmire’s FY2027 budget in a 15-1 vote June 10, creating a $5 monthly administrative fee for municipal solid-waste collection and disposal services that the city said would begin appearing on August water bills.
A joint enforcement effort involving the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Birmingham Police Department and FBI resulted in 76 arrests, 193 warrant clearances and 13 firearm seizures, authorities said.
Gov. Greg Abbott requested a presidential disaster declaration for 28 Texas counties after severe weather and flooding. The request had not been shown as approved in the materials available as of Aug. 3.
Nevada and California co-led a multistate lawsuit that won a permanent injunction against several provisions of a presidential election executive order, according to the Nevada Attorney General’s Office.
The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council is scheduled to consider ordering a Dec. 12, 2026, special election on a 10-year renewal of a 0.87-mill property-tax levy for the Police Department’s three-platoon system.
A Missouri measure titled the “No Foreign Laws Act” has been delivered to Gov. Mike Kehoe. It would bar state and local public bodies from implementing specified rules, mandates, policies or regulations of covered international organizations.
Gov. Tate Reeves announced July 27 that DeSoto County Judge Celeste Embrey Wilson will fill Northern District 3, Place 1, on the Mississippi Supreme Court.