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Ken Fountain

Ken Fountain

Verified

Editor-in-Chief, Fort Bend Star

Houston

Biography

Ken Fountain is a writer and editor based in Houston, Texas. He began his communications career as a U.S. Navy journalist aboard an aircraft carrier based in San Diego. He has worked as a reporter, editor and online producer for newspapers large and small in Southern California and Southeast Texas, a correspondent for a national legal news service, and a stringer for an international wire service.

Final Covers

Local government and politics, cultural affairs law and the courts, urbanism environmental and sustainability matters, among many others.

Doesn’t Cover

health, book publishing

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Content

Total articles 870

  • Patel accepts plea deal, apologizes to community

    By Ken Fountain Verified| Fort Bend Star Verified Taral Patel, a former chief of staff to Fort Bend County Judge KP George, Biden White House staffer and unsuccessful candidate for county commissioner, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts of misdemeanor misrepresentation of identity by a candidate in a plea agreement, according to a press release from the Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office. Patel also agreed to a two-year pre-trial intervention to four felony charges of online impersonation.

    By Ken Fountain Verified · Fort Bend Star

    Apr. 15, 2025

  • FBISD board approves gender policy

    By Ken Fountain Verified| Fort Bend Star Verified After hearing from more than 30 people in opposition, the Fort Bend ISD board on Monday passed a new policy on how the district will deal with a host of gender issues, including the use by students of pronouns, the use of bathrooms and playing of sports by gender conforming students, and whether employees should notify parents that their students wish to identify with a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth.

    By Ken Fountain Verified · Fort Bend Star

    Apr. 15, 2025

  • Patel accepts plea deal, apologizes to community

    By Ken Fountain Verified| Fort Bend Star Verified Taral Patel, a former chief of staff to Fort Bend County Judge KP George, Biden White House staffer and unsuccessful candidate for county commissioner, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts of misdemeanor misrepresentation of identity by a candidate in a plea agreement, according to a press release from the Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office. Patel also agreed to a two-year pre-trial intervention to four felony charges of online impersonation.

    By Ken Fountain Verified · Fort Bend Star

    Apr. 15, 2025

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Company Info

Fort Bend Star

Local News, Classifieds, Real Estate for Sugar Land, Richmond, Stafford, Missouri City, Katy

Houston, United States

+1 713-371-3740

Founded: 1972