Early voting in the Nov. 8 election, which includes a contest for mayor of Houston, started Monday. If you care about water resources and Houston’s public schools, if you hate the new Houston drainage tax, or if like me you were moved by the fact that 9 out of 10 Tunisians turned out for their weekend election, vote.

• See Texas Watchdog’s profiles of candidates for Houston Independent School District trustee. Mike Cronin has the rundown in District III (Ramiro Fonseca challenging Manuel Rodriguez), District IV (Davetta Daniels challenging Paula Harris) and District VIII (Dorothy Olmos challenging Juliet Stipeche). Not sure who represents you? Here’s a map and listing based on schools in each district.

• Find your polling place, and print out your sample ballot at the Harris County Clerk’s website. View a countywide sample ballot and early voting locations on Texas Watchdog’s Scribd page or at the map (above) by Greg’s Opinion. Early voting ends Nov. 4.

• Hear interviews with candidates at the liberal blog Off the Kuff, where you can also check out an aggregated list of endorsements from various interest groups. We have not seen a similar interview presentation from a conservative outlet, so to our readers, please post a link in the comments if you know of such.

• See endorsements by the Houston Chronicle.

• View election guides provided by the Harris County Democratic and Republican parties.