KPRC 2’s Phil Archer retiring after telling Houston’s story for nearly 45 years
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HOUSTON – After nearly 45 years of covering the news in Houston, KPRC 2 senior reporter Phil Archer is retiring.
Archer, a native of Wichita Falls, began his career with KPRC 2 in 1976, starting out as a police beat reporter and photographer. Since then, he’s covered countless stories in Houston, documented war on the ground in El Salvador and pursued a fugitive priest to Spain.
He has won awards from the Associated Press, UPI, Houston Press Club, Houston Fire Department, Association for Retarded Citizens, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, and American Quarter Horse Association. In 2006, the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters awarded Archer first place for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
The chief executive of Uber had requested the same for rideshare drivers and food delivery workers.
Similar requests for early access to the vaccine came from representatives for teacher groups, home health care workers, rice farmers, federal judges, dialysis patients, journalists and 911 operators, among scores more, according to a state document obtained by the American-Statesman.
The behind-the-scenes competition illuminates the high-stakes demand for a vaccine that remains in relatively short supply, even as the virus cases and hospitalizations continue to surge in Texas. On the line, beyond health and lives, are livelihoods, as industries of all sorts struggle to remain afloat as the pandemic drags on.
AUSTIN Lobbying to get to the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas is underway.
Leaders representing major industries airlines, energy, food processing, even Uber and DoorDash are asking Texas to give their workers early access to the limited supply of shots. Also calling for priority are teachers unions and groups representing people with diabetes, cystic fibrosis and other serious medical conditions.
Some sectors such as convenience stores, dialysis centers and freestanding emergency rooms have had employees transmit pleas for special consideration that were worded identically.
But as an accounting of the requests obtained by
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Phil W. Ebensberger of Temple was born July 4, 1937 in New Braunfels, Texas. He graduated from Burbank High School in San Antonio and received a music scholarship to attend Sul Ross State University in Alpine. He received his B.B.A. degree in 1960 and his Master of Arts degree in 1972.
In 1958, he was bit by a gopher outside of the Alpine radio station and was hospitalized where he met his future wife Jenny Ruth Bechthold, a newly employed registered nurse at Brewster County Memorial Hospital. The couple were married on June 6, 1959 and were the parents of two children, Penny Lynn born in 1960 and Michael Wayne, born in 1961.
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