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Some South Dakota legislators mask up at Capitol as colleagues contend with COVID-19 With a spate of South Dakota lawmakers contracting COVID-19 at the halfway point of the legislative session, the states Democratic leadership is calling on more stringent masking requirements at the Statehouse in Pierre, S.D. One Republican leader acknowledged the body had entered "choppy waters" but vowed to press on. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | × Rep. Chris Johnson, a Rapi...

Republicans on three committees are fuming that they will be sidelined from putting their touch on the coronavirus relief package while the House Budget and Rules committees determine how some $12 billion in federal

Despite long odds, Democrats say they are holding out hope that former President Donald Trump will be convicted when the Senate votes on whether he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

The House: As 2020’s Final Contests Settle, Vacancies Arise A Commentary By J. Miles Coleman Thursday, February 11, 2021 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — With the race for NY-22 settled, 2020’s House elections may finally be fully in the rearview mirror, though IA-2’s results will be reviewed by Congress. — Before this week, we rated two special elections in Louisiana as safe for either party; with a new vacancy in TX-6, we see an imminent special election there as Likely...

Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor - Preventing child abuse, kindness of strangers, Martyrs Park, U. S. Rep. Ron Wright Readers would like more done to protect children, appreciate three kind strangers, suggest a great plan for Martyrs Park and fondly remember the late Rep. Ron Wright. Homelessness encampments at Martyrs Park in downtown Dallas on Feb. 2, 2021. Dr. George Keaton, the head of Remembering Black Dallas, has been a leading voice in the effort to commemorate local victims ...

Congressman Al Green and the Houston Branch of the organization have demanded a body of water in the area named “Negrohead Lake” be changed to “Lake Henry Doyle.” (Credit: Rep. Green) “As a liberated Democrat, I find the utilization of the word ‘negro’ to denote a person of African ancestry to be greatly offensive,” said Green in a press release. Green, the NAACP and other elected officials came together on Monday for a press conference to address the derogatory name of the la...

Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) has launched the Texas Rent Relief Program — the first statewide rent and utility assistance program for qualifying households throughout Texas. This program has been created to administer the more than $1 billion allocated to Texas through the latest federal COVID-19 stimulus bill. TDHCA will begin accepting applications for the program on Monday, February 15th, but Texans can visit TexasR...

Council Kills Mask Ordinance LAFAYETTE--A mask mandate proposed by city councilman Glenn Lazard is dead. The city council voted 3-2 to kill that ordinance, which would have required people to wear masks in public facilities. Lazard and Pat Lewis voted for the ordinance. Andy Naquin, Liz Webb Hebert, and Nanette Cook voted against it. According to council clerk Veronica Williams, the council office received more than 3,059 phone calls about the mask ordinance. Of those calls, 2,060 were against ...

The Biden administration said Wednesday the federal government is building three mass-vaccination centers in Texas with the aim of getting 10,000 shots into arms per day.

Specifics were still scarce Wednesday. However, earlier statements by Gov. Greg Abbott suggested the sites could inoculate up to 6,000 people per day for...