Pride Houston announces nominees for 2021 grand marshal and theme KTRK
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Pride Houston revealed this year s nominees for grand marshal Friday with a virtual announcement.
Executive director Lo Moton Roberts led the announcement, which also highlighted the nominated themes for the 2021 Pride Houston celebration.
Theme nominations include the following:
#GameOver - This theme represents the fact that time is up for intolerance and hatred, and instead, the time is now to embrace all that we can, and make sure that every human is treated with the same respect and dignity.
Pride Unbound - This theme is designed to represent the manifestation of the hope for progress, celebrate healing the nation and honor all who have spoken their truth, past and present.
Supreme Court delays oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to postpone oral arguments in significant cases regarding former President Donald Trump’s border wall and a controversial asylum policy.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to delay the arguments. The Justice Department said Biden has directed a “pause in construction” so that the administration can undertake an assessment “of the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to construct the wall.” The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition asked the Supreme Court last year to block the construction the wall.
Essay: Lina Hidalgo puts principle over politics at her own peril
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Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
It was about a week before Christmas and 29-year-old Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was on the phone talking turkey.
There were holiday giveaways going on all over town, a community leader on the line said. He wanted to know: would the county organize one in his neighborhood?
Hidalgo was sorry, she told him, but she couldn’t justify using her staff’s time, pulling them from their work on next year’s budget, to do a giveaway. Instead, she detailed what the county was doing to distribute congressional stimulus dollars to curtail food insecurity.
Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a "pause" on all wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive orders issued on his first day in office, including six dealing with immigration.