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January 14, 2009 | Houston Defender
City Controller Prepares To Run for Mayor
For the past five years, Annise Parker has kept tight reigns on the city of Houston’s money. Now, she’s hoping to use that experience to help her lead the nation’s fourth largest city. Parker does…
January 12, 2009 | Bank on Houston
City Controller Annise Parker kicks off “Bank on Houston” effort
With today’s formal kick-off of Bank on Houston and its marketing campaign, Houston becomes the first city in Texas to launch a program to help residents open no, or low, cost starter bank accounts. …
January 5, 2009 | DosCentavos.Net
Annise Parker Donates to Five Nonprofits
Houston City Controller, and future Mayoral candidate, Annise Parker got her supporters involved in something special during the holidays. She committed $5,000 to be divided equally between five nonprofit groups serving Houston. Here's a letter…
October 16, 2008 | International Business Times
Houston spending less amid economic woes
Houston plans to push back some projects, tap into cash reserves and not borrow as much money through bonds because of the country’s economic meltdown, city leaders announced Thursday. But Mayor Bill White reassured residents…
July 1, 2008 | In Town Magazine
Banking on a Stronger Economy
It’s time to declare war on the predatory, high-cost payday loan companies, pawn shops and check cashing stores that are draining $70 million a year out of the struggling economies of our poorest neighborhoods. In…
May 6, 2008 | Houston Chronicle
City, businesses working out a plan to help ‘un-banked’ join mainstream
They hide cash in their homes, dodge robbers who lurk about check-cashing stores, and shell out millions in fees to payday lenders and pawnshops. They are the “un-banked” of Houston, and there are tens of…
