LaWana Mayfield
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5,391 appearances
26 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 11 May
LaWana Mayfield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not only did I invite them, but I invited Tom Hatchett, a local historian, to talk about the history of the construction itself and how black and brown communities were displaced, divided, separated, and taken advantage of.
And that history was important.
You can't do anything to the highway
until you acknowledge the history.
And there was pitchback on that.
The end is in the beginning.
So here we are.
And despite what I think is good work that they've done in March and April to try to re-correct and level set and reintroduce this project to the community, there is significant distrust of the process.
and the impact for this community.
And not only that they have done some good work, this council has done some good work because what the community asked us to do was to use our influence to get a better result.
The mayor called the secretary of transportation.
I called them as well.
I served with Josh Stein for eight years as a state senator and said, we got a problem, Houston.
We got two problems, actually.
We got a highway that needs to be fixed and we got an engagement process that is just poor.
Two things can be true at the same time.
We kicked it to Ed's committee for further evaluation and constant contact.
They hired a public relations firm to reset the engagement.
They said and started the engagement center
and they opened up a lot sooner than they wanted to because they had to.
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