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Last week, I received a strange email from classmate Susan Baumgart. She sits on some type of Cardinal football statistical committee. She said they are compiling some Cardinal football statistics for Matt Schobel and he listed all playoff teams from 1935 to 2020. Susan asked me why there was no mention of the 1974 Cardinal Football team.
Read more(Austin, TX) – State Representative Ben Leman filed House Bill 1618, which would raise current petition signature requirements for the creation of hospital districts to prevent unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars. Currently, before a hospital district located wholly in one county may be created, the county judge of that county must receive a petition signed by at least 100 registered voters of the territory of the proposed district. If the petition is complete and accurate, commissioners court shall order an election by the people of the proposed district to determine if the district will be created and whether or not to authorize the levy of a tax.
Read more(Austin, Texas) - State Representative Ben Leman of Texas House District 13 was appointed as Vice-Chair for the House Committee on Land and Resource Management. In addition to serving as vice-chair for this important committee, Representative Leman was appointed by Speaker Dade Phelan to serve on the House Committee on Energy Resources along with the House Calendars Committee.
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Red and pink crepe paper, white doilies and varied colors of paper hearts were scattered about the table. My youngest granddaughter was holding a shoe box, surveying the maze of potential creativity before her.
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The number of people in Texas hospitalized with COVID-19 has declined more than 28 percent in the past month, according to the Texas Department of Health Services. As of Feb. 7, Texas hospitals were treating 9,957 COVID-19 patients, down from nearly 14,000 a month ago. The number of new cases in the past week was 123,239 — a 22 percent drop from the record high of 158,922 the week of Jan. 10, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.
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The rate of COVID-19 vaccine administration is slowly increasing in Texas as we enter the second full month of shots going into arms. The Texas Department of State Health Services last weekend reported that about 1.6 million Texans — overwhelmingly frontline health workers, people over 65 or those with chronic health conditions — have received the first dose. Just over 400,000 are fully vaccinated. The state has received 3.16 million doses so far; nearly half remain to be administered. Texas ranks near the bottom in per-capita doses administered when compared to other states, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Read more(Austin)—School board candidates and interested citizens can learn about the demands and rewards of school board service in a free webinar offered by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) on Tuesday, February 9, noon–1 p.m.
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