A group at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center called the Latino Medical Students Association is planning an event Saturday at Amigos United Supermarket to clear up what’s true and not true about the vaccine.
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TTU School of Dance presents FrontierFest
The Texas Tech School of Theatre and Dance will present FrontierFest on Sunday, April 12 at 2:30 p.m., via Zoom.
FrontierFest is an evening of one-act play and choreographic pieces by Texas Tech students.
In lieu of a ticket, you will purchase a link to the performance hosted virtually on Zoom Webinar and viewable on a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device. Each ticket (performance link) will give you access to the performance on one device only.
Tickets for this online performance are $3.50 and available for purchase online at ttutheatreanddance.tix.com
ARNOLD LOEWY & CHARLES MOSTER
In the latest installment of It s Debatable, Arnold Loewy and Charles Moster debate the impact of banning assault weapons and enhancing background checks in the aftermath of several mass shootings. Moster is a former litigation attorney in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential administrations who has offices in Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland/Odessa, Abilene and Georgetown. Loewy is the George Killiam Professor of Law at Texas Tech School of Law.
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The country is rightly grieving after the senseless death of 10 innocent shoppers who happened to be at the wrong place and wrong time in Boulder, Colorado. The alleged gunman made news across the country and world by entering a grocery store with a military grade automatic weapon, body shielding, and pistol. His acts were reprehensible and but for the occasion which falls on this April 4, I would be more specific as to what penalty this miscreant should face, if convicted.
TH Legislative Session, addressing several top priorities. Mitchell provided insight to those priorities and the Legislative session.
The Texas Legislative Session is held every other year, Mitchell said. All state agencies converge on Austin to testify before the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Appropriations to walk through their budgets and explain additional needs or wants. Some agencies, like Tech, testify before the Higher Education Committee as well.
The Senate Finance Committee and House of Appropriations testimonies focus on the budget, Mitchell said. The primary ways the state raises money for the budget is through sales tax revenue, which were impacted by COVID-19 and through the severance tax revenues, which comes from oil and gas production.