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Georgia run-off election will Republicans hold on to the Senate - What's Your Point? HOUSTON - The stakes simply cannot be overstated, in nine days voters in the state of Georgia will decide, through its pair of senate run-offs, whether President-Elect Joe Biden will have absolute control of our nation's government, or whether Republicans will retain a foothold of power in the upper chamber. On the one hand, a Democratic sweep in Georgia would allow the new administration to more swiftly reverse much of what out-going President Trump has done over the past four years. On the flip side, a R...

Vision Zero, improving Houston's mobility The WYP panel talks about Mayor Turner's new Vision Zero plan to improve Houston's mobility. HOUSTON - Goals rarely get more ambitious,  the complete elimination of traffic deaths in the nation's fourth-largest city with just a single decade to do it. Sound farfetched?  Mayor Sylvester Turner,  says it can actually happen with his "Vision Zero" executive order. Based on what's been reported, the idea is to convert a widely-spread, car-loving H-town into a metropolis that discourages the use of automobiles, and strongly supports other means of ge...

The electoral college has voted, Biden is President-Elect - What's Your Point? The electoral college votes put a period on the 2020 election The WYP panel discusses the acceptance of the results of the electoral college votes and the clarification that Joe Biden is the President-Elect. HOUSTON - The "turbulent transition" is on our virtual table for discussion - after a short break  On December 14th, presidential electors from all 50 states gathered and dutifully cast their ballots. By day's end - Democrat Joe Biden had accumulated 306 electoral votes, 36 more than the minimum needed for el...

Houston Health Dept. survey: COVID-19 infection rate may be 4x higher - What's Your Point? Infection rate could be 4x higher The WYP panel discusses recent information from the Houston Health Department survey that indicates that the coronavirus infection rate could be 4 times higher than current statistics. HOUSTON - Newly released research indicates the number of Houstonians infected with COVID-19 may actually be four times greater than what we had thought. That finding is the result of a Houston Health Department study conducted in September which detected anti-bodies in more than 13% o...

What's Your Point? The WYP panel talks about what's happening with the next COVID-19 relief bill. A second vaccine to combat the coronavirus has been cleared by the food and drug administration for mass distribution. With data indicating Moderna's variant is 94% effective, the approval comes as encouraging news during a week when the United States crossed a grim milestone with more than 300 thousand deaths now attributed to covid-19. The news comes as frontline health workers in Houston's Med-Center received the first welcome doses of the Pfizer vaccine joining thousands of caregivers across...