Mayor Sylvester Turner announces challenge to help Houston-area colleges students to get vaccinated

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Mayor Sylvester Turner announces challenge to help Houston-area colleges students to get vaccinated

Coronavirus Texas

Texas Justices of the Peace Miss Important Clues in Death Investigations

Courtesy of the family Clockwise from top left: Janice Lee Wilhelm with her granddaughter shortly before her death; Wilhelm in 2000; Wilhelm in the early 1980s; Wilhelm in the late…

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Power Outages, Flight Cancelations, School Closures: Winter Storm Freezes Dallas

^ Keep Dallas Observer Free I Support Local Community Journalism Support the independent voice of Dallas and help keep the future of Dallas Observer free. Amid a winter storm that…

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Houston leaders to hold briefing on COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Mayor Sylvester Turner tours the COVID-19 vaccination site at Harris Health System’s Gulfgate Health Center on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. He will join community leaders to discuss “inequities in the…

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Supreme Court Emergency Order 35, Rules Vote 2021, other updates

Editor’s note: The following message was sent to all members on Friday, February 12. Dear Member, This message includes updated information related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other State Bar…

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Our Favorite Strange Texas Stories of 2020

As we near the end of 2020, we can only hope this cursed year has no more curve balls to throw our way. After all, we’ve weathered a global pandemic…

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Austin and America’s Thirty-Year War on the Homeless

No Place to Be Cities have spent three decades criminalizing homelessness. Last year, Austin bucked the trend—and sparked a firestorm that still hasn’t gone out. Illustration by Matt Chase By…

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COVID-19 causing budget concerns for Corpus Christi Fire Department

Alexandria Rodriguez Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 9:14 PM EDT Aug 6, 2020 Editors note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Corpus Christi Fire Department is not…

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Sinclair says it won’t air Fauci conspiracy theory segment

NEW YORK – The Sinclair Broadcast Group says it will not air a segment on its “America This Week” program in which a conspiracy theorist speculates about Dr. Anthony Fauci…

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MLB players cut to 89 games, want prorated money

NEW YORK – Baseball players moved toward teams but remained far apart economically in their latest proposal for starting the pandemic-delayed season, adamant they receive full prorated salaries while offering…

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