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  Virus Fighting Words From Turner and Hidalgo: it's Time to Just Stay Home

  July 13 at 5:24 p.m.

  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo both addressed the public on Monday in separate events, during which each leader reiterated their now shared view that a new area stay-home order would be the best bet for reversing the trajectory of COVID-19’s spread throughout the region. In...

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  Saint Arnold Closes Restaurant For Dine-In

  July 13 at 1:39 p.m.

  Saint Arnold Beer Garden and Restaurant, 2000 Lyons, is closing its outdoor dining area to the public due to the Texas State Governor's Office abruptly deciding to restrict certain restaurants' dine-in operations based on their alcohol sales. The new requirement disproportionately affects breweries which also serve food because the new...

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  Texas Supreme Court Throws Out State GOP Convention Lawsuit

  July 13 at 10:14 a.m.

  In a Monday morning ruling, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected an appeal from the Republican Party of Texas asking the court to allow state Republicans to go forward with their in-person party convention in Houston this week after it had been cancelled by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Last Thursday,...

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  Turner Recommends Two-Week Houston Lockdown to Fight COVID-19

  July 13 at 7:40 a.m.

  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner believes it’s time for his city to pump the brakes hard on business as usual and go back to stay-at-home conditions in order to take the fight to COVID-19. On Saturday, Turner proposed that Houston go back into lockdown for two weeks to try and blunt...

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  Dusty Baker's Comments on MLB Protocols Concerning

  July 13 at 6:15 a.m.

  Astros Manager Dusty Baker has been around baseball a long time. He has seen more than his fair share of odd situations, but nothing could have prepared him for 2020. Over the weekend, after the Astros had to cancel yet another workout thanks to potential exposure of a staff member...

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  COVID First Responders Bare Their Pain in The Line

  July 13 at 4 a.m.

  A show comprised of real-life interviews with COVID first responders while we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic. Sounds like theatrical redundancy. After all, aren’t we already taken into the belly of the emergency response beast via the embedded journalists, personal essays, and social media videos that document...