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New Harris County collaboration offers free recovery resources and legal aid for renters Published:  Updated:  Tags:  HOUSTON – As Harris County recovers from the COVID job recession and the recent winter storms, local officials and community leaders have come together to hold an event Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. providing renters at risk of eviction with information about their rights under the CDC order preventing evictions for nonpayment of rent. Volunteer attorneys will help tenants determine if they qualify for protection under the CDC guidelines and help those who qualify comple...

Inoculating a casino workforce against COVID-19 could boost a damaged gaming market By Howard Stutz, Executive Editor, CDC Gaming Reports January 19, 2021 at 10:29 pm Steps were taken in the past week to help Nevada’s battered casino industry recover from the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Steve Sisolak prioritized eligibility of frontline gaming and tourism workers in the state’s current coronavirus vaccine distribution schedule Wynn Resorts converted Encore’s convention space into a COVID-19 vaccine distribution center, working with Southern Nevada’s Uni...

Iron Workers Local 29 turned its Northeast Portland union headquarters parking lot into a winter wonderland Dec. 19. “Night on Santa Lane” took the place of “Breakfast With Santa,” a party the union, credit union, and training center have put on for members and their kids and grandkids for 34 years. Because of the coronavirus restrictions ordered by the governor, the breakfast party had to be canceled this year. Teri Robison, CEO of the Iron Workers National Credit Union, envisioned something else: a winter wonderland, complete with snow blowing machine, hot chocolate station, live re...