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Skip to main content Currently Reading Texans don t have to prove they re eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are jumping the line. Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune March 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Some Texans are jumping the line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images When a new mom in Austin found out that COVID-19 vaccine appointments were open in Killeen, she sent her healthy, 28-year-old husband and her 65-year-old mother to get their injections. Both were vaccinated, despite only one of them being eligible under the priority groups outlined by Texas state health officials. “I mostly sent them to get vaccines to protect me and for our newborn baby’s sake since [my husband] tends to see more friends,” said the 37-year-old woman, who requested anonymity for fear of public retribution. ....
GOP governors scorn pandemic restrictions as they compete for primacy in a pro-Trump party Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post March 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Texas Governor Greg Abbott participates in a news briefing outside the West Wing after an Oval Office announcement with President Trump March 24, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC. Charter Communications announced that the company is opening a call center in McAllen, Texas, creating 600 jobs. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Alex Wong/Getty Images The decision this week by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to end his state s mask mandate and lift all restrictions on business reflects a broader move by politically ambitious Republican governors to channel the rising anger of conservative constituents over government efforts to curb the coronavirus. ....
Lolita Ritmanis Blizzard of Souls Score: An Oscar Long Shot? Jon Burlingame, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When Lolita Ritmanis was a little girl in Portland, Oregon, she didn’t even speak English. She spoke the native tongue of her parents, who fled the terrors of Communist Latvia in the years following World War II. Now an Emmy-winning composer (and bilingual), she is on the Oscar shortlist for best original score for her rich orchestral and choral score for “Blizzard of Souls,” a World War I epic produced in her parents’ native country. More from Variety As Oscar voting begins today, Ritmanis is an admitted long shot for a nomination. But her win Tuesday night at the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ virtual ceremony, in the independent feature score category, ups her chances considerably. And a review of the past 20 years of Oscar score nominations reveals at least eight that contained “dark horse” nominees (anyone remember “House ....
More visions coming into focus for former MacMurray College campus Samantha McDaniel Ogletree, Journal Courier March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Months after much of the former MacMurray College campus was sold at auction, some of the plans for the closed school are starting to come into focus.Journal-Courier More plans are in the works for the buildings that were recently sold on the former MacMurray College campus, as the new owners take over responsibility for their purchases. The MacMurray College Board of Trustees received just over $1.5 million from the auction of the 18 parcels last year following the school’s closing. Since then, several of the buildings have found purpose for their new owners, while others are being developed or in the process of being discussed for zoning by the Jacksonville City Council. ....
Turner sets office hours in Worden, Carlinville March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SPRINGFIELD Office staff for State Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, held their first traveling office hour this week to launch a program she intends to make permanent. “Traveling office hours are a great opportunity to talk with a member of my staff in a town near you about any problems or questions you may have,” Turner said. “It’s my top priority to serve as a resource for all of you to ensure community needs are met.” Traveling office hours will include the first and third Wednesdays of the month, 9 a.m. to noon, in the Carlinville City Hall Council Chambers, 550 N. Broad St., Carlinville. They also will include the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, 1-4 p.m., in the Worden Village Hall, 115 W. Wall St., Worden. ....