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This post-Christmas Sunday, over 1.28 million people flew out of U.S. airports. It was the highest single-day airport volume since the pandemic began, beating out the more than 1.19 million passengers on December 23 and the 1.17 million-plus people who flew on November 29, the Sunday following Thanksgiving. While we wait and see how much the busy holiday travel season will affect COVID-19’s worsening spread throughout the Houston area, it’s undeniable that having so many more people moving about in public has put frontline travel industry workers at even greater risk of getting sick with ...

In a pre-Christmas Eve press conference, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo urged county residents to stay home for the holidays and limit any Christmas or New Year’s Eve celebrations to within their immediate households given the troubling upticks in local coronavirus metrics over the last few months.

On Tuesday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner formally announced that the first ever commercial space station will be built right here in Houston by Axiom Space, a local company with strong NASA ties. “It will be the world’s first free-flying, internationally available private space station that will serve as humanity’s central hub for research, manufacturing, and commerce in low-Earth orbit,” Turner proclaimed, before declaring that the project will eventually bring over 1,000 high-skilled jobs to the Houston area. Axiom Space President and CEO Michael Suffredini seems uniquely suited t...

Given that increase and the steadily growing number of COVID-19 patients in local hospitals over the past several weeks, Turner echoed his statements ahead of Thanksgiving and asked Houstonians to keep their Christmas gatherings local and confined to people who they already share a roof with. “I’m asking people to cancel your holiday gatherings if you plan to gather, especially outside of your immediate household,” Turner said. “I’m asking that you delay those activities. To avoid a surge on top of a surge, postpone traveling until sometime next year.” “I know a lot of people ar...

The Lampkin sisters — Zanda, 50, Erneka, 43, and Tiffany, 36 — always wanted to become college graduates, but never expected to achieve that dream together given their age difference. Life got in the way of each of their plans for higher education, but after years of hard work and perseverance, the stars finally aligned for the three Houstonians in 2020 when they finally earned their long sought-after college degrees, together. In an unexpected twist, all three of the Lampkin sisters walked across the University of Houston Downtown’s virtual graduation stage on Saturday, after they all ...