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Joseph Johnson/Stuff Canterbury is harness racings most active area. The local industry employs about 1700 people and injects about $200m into the Canterbury/West Coast economy. They could be two old men discussing great horses over a beer in the members lounge at Addington Raceway. Don Bates, in his 70s, is quietly spoken and retiring, Warwick Gendall, approaching 80, is confident and talkative. In fact the setting is more formal. Gendall, a retired High Court judge, is chairing a panel of t...

By Dennis Washington March 10, 2021 Dan Bates created Litter Gitter to collect floating trash in smaller streams and creeks. (Dennis Washington / Alabama NewsCenter) Don Bates loves his job. His official title is “Founder and Owner” of Osprey Initiative (OI) but his business card lists him as CLG. “Chief Litter Gitter,” Bates said with a grin. “The day I get to put my hip boots on and go to work is a great day.” Bates’ story doesn’t start with trash but rather is rooted in the s...

Some rural hospitals in Texas have yet to receive a single Covid-19 vaccine dose, hospital group says CNN 1/14/2021 By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN © Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle/AP Houston Health Department LVN Alicia Meza prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, at a Houston Health Departments COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Houston. The department vaccinated 1,008 people who qualify under Phase 1A or Phase 1B of the states guidelines at the clinics first day on S...

Reply By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune Jan. 8, 2021 More than two dozen hospitals in rural Texas, from the Panhandle to South Texas, are still waiting on doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to distribute to their front-line workers and community members, hospitals and health care advocates say. Those that are lucky enough to be near another provider with shots available are relying on neighborly generosity — encouraged but not mandated by the state — to inoculate front-line workers, who ...

More than two dozen of Texas’ rural hospitals haven’t received any COVID-19 vaccines Texas Tribune Tags:  David Lee, chief executive officer at Otto Kaiser Memorial Hospital in Kenedy speaks with staff in the ER. Lee said they are are luckier than many to have the local H-E-B pharmacy and hospitals in Cuero and Floresville that were willing to help inoculate a few dozen workers at his hospital. Credit: Chris Stokes for The Texas Tribune Need to stay updated on coronavirus news in T...

>> i think there is a huge lack of knowledge about how congress works. >> when you are doing the actual research, you just have to do that yourself. >> this weekend, richard norton smith and douglas brinkley will talk about their work and their profession and revisit their first appearance on our network. sunday night on c-span. president obama today pressed his case for tougher financial regulations during a speech in n.y. city. he outlined major provisions of legislation making its w...