{"id":394219,"date":"2026-08-01T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:28:08","slug":"east-texas-politics-smith-county-commissioners-and-constable-weigh-in-on-budget-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394219\/","title":{"rendered":"EAST TEXAS POLITICS: Smith County commissioners and constable weigh in on budget challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; All four Smith County commissioners and a constable join Blake Holland on this week\u2019s edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/news\/east-texas-now\/east-texas-politics\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/news\/east-texas-now\/east-texas-politics\/\">East Texas Politics on East Texas Now<\/a> for an in-depth look at the county budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Commissioners Christina Drewry, J. Scott Herod, John Moore and Ralph Caraway Sr. each sit down with Holland to discuss budget challenges and priorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pct. 4 Constable Josh Joplin also joins Holland to talk about his request for pay parity among Smith County law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>About the show<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/news\/east-texas-now\/east-texas-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/news\/east-texas-now\/east-texas-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Texas Politics on East Texas Now<\/a> streams Fridays at 6:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sundays at 10 a.m. Viewers can watch at <a href=\"https:\/\/kltv.com\/live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kltv.com\/live\" target=\"_blank\">kltv.com\/live<\/a> or using the free KLTV or KTRE apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or Android TV. The show is also available on demand after the Friday night stream.<\/p>\n<p>About the host<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/authors\/BlakeHolland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/authors\/BlakeHolland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Holland<\/a> is a news anchor and reporter for KLTV and KTRE. He anchors East Texas\u2019 most-watched newscasts at 5 and 6 p.m. Since joining KLTV and KTRE in 2018, Holland has covered national political conventions, presidential visits, and interviewed gubernatorial and presidential candidates, plus extensive reporting on regional political news including weekly coverage of Smith County Commissioners Court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; All four Smith County commissioners and a constable join Blake Holland on this week\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-394219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}