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Texas Children’s Confirms It Has Some COVID Kids On Ventilators

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:33:00 +0000

It’s not just unvaccinated adults who’ve ditched their face masks who are being hit hard by the Delta COVID-19 variant’s rapid spread. Houston’s Texas Children’s Hospital has also seen a disconcerting uptick in the number of sick kids laid low by Delta...

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HISD Superintendent House Says Delta’s Rapid Spread Hasn’t Yet Altered Plans For In-Person Classes

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

As the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus silently swarms throughout the Lone Star State, the pandemic in Texas has taken an undeniable turn for the worse in recent weeks. With hospitalizations for the deadly disease rising to heights n...

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Hidalgo Asks Vaxxed to Re-Mask As Dr. Peter Hotez Says Most Folks In COVID Wards “Are There By Choice”

Schaefer Edwards — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo called in nationally recognized coronavirus expert Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine Thursday to help her spread two urgent messages: a plea that vaccinated county residents re-don their face masks given the...

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The Woodlands’ State Rep. Steve Toth Thinks Texas Needs Its Own 2020 Election Audit

Schaefer Edwards — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

If state Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) has his way, Texas will be the next red state that reevaluates the 2020 presidential election through a top-to-bottom “forensic audit” of the state’s elections results in Texas' biggest counties. Toth’s propos...

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So Much For “Community Control” As Delta Variant and Fourth of July Spur Local COVID Surge

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Several weeks ago, most of the Houston area’s COVID-19 metrics were trending in the right direction. According to the Texas Medical Center, the spread of the coronavirus was slowing down, not speeding up, and that combined with low daily new case count...

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Patrick’s Texas Senate Keeps Cranking Out Bills That With No House To Pass Them Will Never Get to The Governor

Schaefer Edwards — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Texas House Democrats’ dramatic fly-out to Washington, D.C. last week left the state House at a standstill. But across the hall in Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Senate, Republican lawmakers were undaunted, rapidly passing a conservative laundry list of legisl...

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Day 5 in Exile: Phelan Hires a Jet to Haul AWOL Dems Back From D.C. But Has No Takers

Schaefer Edwards — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The saga of Texas House Democrats in exile got even more entertaining on Day 5 with Willie Nelson in fund-raising mode for the AWOL Dems and Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announcing Thursday afternoon he had a private plane standing b...

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Pro-Choice Advocates File Lawsuit Hoping To Block Texas’ New Six-Week Abortion Ban

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 20:05:00 +0000

A broad group of abortion providers and pro-choice advocates joined forces Tuesday by filing a federal lawsuit they hope will block Texas’ recently passed law — that would ban abortions as early as six weeks — from going into effect later this year. Se...

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Defiant Texas Dems In D.C. Tell Abbott To Quit Holding Lege Hostage, Demand Congress Act on Voting Bills

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:06:00 +0000

To begin their first full-day of self-imposed exile in Washington, D.C., the Texas House Democrats who fled the state Monday afternoon spoke in front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to explain why they felt they had no choice but to skip town to prevent Te...

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Texas Dems Plan To Flee Texas For D.C. Monday To Block GOP Election Bills A Second Time [UPDATED]

Schaefer Edwards — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:53:00 +0000

Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives are planning to fly to Washington, D.C. Monday in an attempt to halt the state Legislature from advancing controversial Republican-backed election bills during the ongoing special legislative ses...

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Texas GOP Jumps Into Round Two Of Election Reform Fight As Special Session Kicks Off

Schaefer Edwards — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The special session of the Texas Legislature ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott is well underway, and lawmakers worked through the weekend filing and debating new laws that fit within Abbott’s narrowly-tailored list of conservative priority items, the only to...

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FBI Investigating Claims That Harris County Constables Molested Female Deputies In Drunken Undercover Party Stings

Schaefer Edwards — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:11:00 +0000

An explosive federal lawsuit against Harris County Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen and two other department officials alleges that Rosen’s office routinely held undercover “bachelor party” stings between 2019 and 2020 during which female deputies “we...

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Abbott Sets A Red-Meat Menu For Special Legislature Session Starting Thursday

Schaefer Edwards — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:40:00 +0000

Ending weeks of speculation, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday morning finally unveiled the full list of items Texas lawmakers will be allowed to focus on during the upcoming special legislative session set to begin Thursday morning. “The 87th Legislative ...

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Abbott Faces Fire From Left and Right On Legislative Funding Veto As New Opponent Enters the Fray

Schaefer Edwards — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Gov. Greg Abbott has faced plenty of backlash after he vetoed two full years of funding for the Texas Legislature last month, his way of retaliating against state lawmakers who weren’t able to pass a Republican priority bill to make voting in Texas mor...

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COVID-19 Under “Community Control” in Greater Houston, but Delta Variant and Other Questions Remain

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic has finally gotten to a somewhat manageable state in the greater Houston area and much of the United States where life-saving coronavirus vaccines are free, widely available and remarkably successful at preventing ho...

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After Multiple Houston Kids Killed In Two Days, Turner and Chief Finner Say Hands Off Our Children

Schaefer Edwards — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:15:00 +0000

Ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston Police Department Chief Troy Finner swore to the public they are doing everything in their power to put an end to a local wave of shootings that has left multiple Houstonia...

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Trump Joins Abbott At Border Wall Briefing, But Can’t Stop Ranting About Russia, Hillary and 2020

Schaefer Edwards — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:46:00 +0000

Styled as a “border security briefing” for Donald Trump led by Texas Gov. Abbott and state law enforcement leaders, Wednesday's press conference in the lower Rio Grande Valley came across more as a miniature political rally for Abbott’s reelection camp...

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First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Visit Houston To Push COVID-19 Vaccines

Schaefer Edwards — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff made a trek to Minute Maid Park Tuesday evening ahead of that night’s Astros game against the Baltimore Orioles to lend a hand with a pop-up COVID-19 vaccinated clinic for local residents intereste...

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A Sampling of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Most Outlandish Statements In Recent Memory

Schaefer Edwards — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Former Baltimoreon and current Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has spent most of the past two decades clawing his way up the Lone Star State’s political power structure. Patrick parlayed his Houston conservative talk radio career into a 12-year s...

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What To Know About Shooting Off Fireworks This 2021 Fourth of July Holiday

Schaefer Edwards — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Independence Day is almost upon us once again, AKA Christmas in July for fireworks aficionados and lovers of all things big, bright and explode-y. For the second straight year, Houston’s premiere Fourth of July celebration, Freedom Over Texas, will be ...

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