Texas, Minnesota, Ohio Students to Hear from Astronauts in Space
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WASHINGTON, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Students from several states across the nation will have an opportunity next week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space calls will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency s website. All events will take place virtually.
On Monday, May 17, at 1:10 p.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur will answer prerecorded video questions from students across the greater Houston area coordinated by the Ismaili Council for the Southwestern United States. Participating students are from the Aldine, Alief, Fort Bend, Houston, and Stafford school districts, as well as the private Awty International, Etoile Academy, The Honor Roll, and The Village Schools. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will offer prerecorded opening remarks. Media interested in covering it should contact Ali
  Fort Bend County Judge KP George cited the silence of Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) on what he called âvoter suppressionâ bills âreminiscent of Jim Crow era tacticsâ â Texas House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7 â in the Texas Legislature as the reason the county will not become a dues-paying member of the organization.Â
The Texas House passed Senate Bill 7 last Friday, which would limit some voting expansions utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic such as drive-through voting.Â
âAt a time in our country when we should all come together, these restrictive laws needlessly and unfairly make it more difficult for people to vote,â George wrote in a Facebook post last Thursday. âItâs simple: Cutting voting hours makes it harder to vote. Ending drive-through voting makes it harder to vote. Allowing partisan actors to film voters casting their ballot makes it harder to vote.âÂ
Pay increase for firefighters proposed as part of 2022 Houston budget
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HOUSTON – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner presented the proposed budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Turner announced the proposed budget for all funds is a total of $5.1 billion, which is an increase of $227 million from the 2021 budget.
The spending plan also outlined funding for police, fire and other city departments and city services. This outline included a pay increase for Houston firefighters.
Mayor Turner tells me the proposed budget for 2022 has no plans for any kind of layoffs in the city for FY 2022 and 2023. https://t.co/CSilmiLfTu Mario Diaz (@KPRC2Mario) May 11, 2021
Bayou City musicians weathered Covid-19 any way they could.
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Chris Gray
5/11/2021 at 6:00am
Published in the Spring 2021 issue of
Houstonia
Cover photo:Â Music promoter and musician Allen Hill, who lives across the street from the Continental Club, practices guitar in his neighbor s yard. Photo by Thomas Shea.
Houstonâs musicians are resilient. They have to be. Theyâll play for tips, at weddings, on the sidewalkâwherever thereâs a gig. When the coronavirus pandemic began, thatâs also what made them uniquely vulnerable.
Many ply their trade in dark, poorly ventilated bars and nightclubs, or else in social settings where conditions are ripe to create so-called superspreader events. But many of those places have now been closed for going on a year. Worse, medical experts have singled out singing as a perniciously efficient way of transmitting Covid-19. And forget about any kind of social safety net once these people do get sick.
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History Is Made as Project 11 Begins Construction
May 10, 2021 GMT
HOUSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) May 10, 2021
Port Houston marks National Infrastructure Week by highlighting the groundbreaking for the start of construction work to support widening and deepening the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel. Known as Project 11, the project’s far-reaching benefits impact the United States and the entire Gulf region, and have generated bipartisan praise from officials across the state and nation.
A groundbreaking ceremony held on May 3 marks the start of the Houston Ship Channel Project 11 expansion and widening construction program, a nearly billion-dollar infrastructure project. (Photo: Business Wire)