{"id":5467,"date":"2023-07-04T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/04\/houston-sues-state-in-attempt-to-block-new-law-that-erodes-cities-power\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:09:27","slug":"houston-sues-state-in-attempt-to-block-new-law-that-erodes-cities-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/04\/houston-sues-state-in-attempt-to-block-new-law-that-erodes-cities-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston sues state in attempt to block new law that erodes cities\u2019 power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Houston officials sued the state of Texas on Monday to stop a sweeping law aimed at gutting all kinds of local ordinances and sapping the power of the state\u2019s bluer urban areas. The law \u2014 House Bill 2127, dubbed the \u201cDeath Star\u201d bill by opponents \u2014 was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0in June, marking Texas Republicans\u2019 biggest attempt yet to kneecap local governments in a yearslong assault on Texas\u2019 major metropolitan areas, often governed by Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston officials sued the state of Texas on Monday to stop a sweeping law aimed at gutting all kinds of local ordinances and sapping the power of the state\u2019s bluer urban areas. The law \u2014 House Bill 2127, dubbed the \u201cDeath Star\u201d bill by opponents \u2014 was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0in June, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}