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Another Sad COVID-19 Report
It didn’t take long for Houston Health to change the local COVID-19 risk level from “MEDIUM” to “HIGH.” What was it? A week? The COVID-19 positivity levels are now at 23.9% and the viral load in the...
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COVID-19 Still On The Rise This week’s COVID numbers reached another disappointing level. Positivity is now just under 26% and the wastewater viral load pushed passed 630%. Among the popular folks...
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Migrant Deaths Beyond The Trailer in SA I came upon a report on FB regarding the bodies of migrants being found in Eagle Pass/Maverick County during this last fiscal year. In fact, the number of...
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Texas Heat: Conserve Energy Today!
Greg Abbott’s unfixed electric grid seems to be sputtering as demand for electricity will be going over its peak today to the point where rolling blackouts may occur. Sunday’s record heat broke...
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COVID-19: CDC Says Mask Up Indoors, Again!
Well, if you haven’t paid attention to my COVID-19 posts of the last couple of months, or the steady climb of test positivity during the same period, it looks like the Feds are recognizing COVID-19 as...
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Thoughts on Viernes – 07152022 (Sabado Edition)
The Video The release of the Uvalde video and the aftermath of the release is pretty ugly. While the people want the ineptitude of cops and political leaders at all levels proven quickly, too much...
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Not Giving Up On Avoiding COVID-19
Houston Health’s latest report has us at 30.4% positivity on COVID-19 tests. I’m pretty sure we’ll reach one-third of tests soon, at least officially. Because of home tests and lack of individual...
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El Prez Is Back; COVID-19 Still Here
CNBC The good news is that President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and he is back in the Oval. Thankfully, he has in-house medical and the ability to clear a hospital, if needed, for...
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Another Influx in The News
Credit: Texas Tribune Hitting the news, and just in time for campaign season, is news that there is another migrant “influx” happening at the moment. It shouldn’t be a surprise. We’ve known since...
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Is It Over?
I can’t say I got the warm and fuzzies when President Biden declared the pandemic “over” on 60 Minutes last night. He also mentioned that COVID-19 is still an issue that is being dealt with, so, at...
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Getting Antsy We are a little less than 50 days out of Election Day and the earlier than usual repetitive political ads are already making me antsy to get my vote done. And it’s not just the “Blame...
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Thoughts on Viernes – 07282023
A Shorter Pipeline Kudos to Mayor Sylvester Turner for calling out Greg Abbott’s HISD puppet after the latest “gimmick” to turn school libraries into “discipline centers.” And for rejecting the photo...
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COVID-19 Update and Long COVID
First of all, the Houston Health Department reports another increase in the COVID-19 positivity rate (14.6%) and the wastewater load is at 132%, which remains the same compared to last week. Slowly,...
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Post-COVIDing The Wrong Way
As of 8/14/2023, the uptick in COVID positivity pushed passed 21%, while the wastewater load is at 239%. It’s been increasing for over a month. OK, Houston: What is up with y’all? Are you even trying?...
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Chican@ Heritage Month It’s that time again. Time for extensive amounts of Tex-Mex food and margaritas. (Snark!) But there’s also a lot of culture beyond food and drink. Festival Chicano is scheduled...
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Holly Flynn Vilaseca for At-Large #2
Once again, a big thank you to Off the Kuff for all of the hard work of herding candidates and interviewing them for the upcoming local elections. With so many forums and meetings, it gets to a point...
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Abbott Policies, Biden Indifference Kill Another Kid A 3 year-old child drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. The child was pulled by the current north of Abbott’s killer buoys,...
View ArticleLos Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up
The Texas Progressive Alliance believes that the truth about Ken Paxton will be known as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff documents the conclusion of the Paxton impeachment trial, and...
View ArticleThoughts on Viernes – 09282023
The COVID Report Trying to decipher the dashboard regarding COVID-19 in the wastewater seems to be getting easier for me. The last measure reported was for September 18 and that tells us that the...
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Feliz Friday the 13th! The No Browns Debate As there was nothing on TV, I did watch the KPRC/League of Women Voters/Other Groups debate the other night. I was going to boycott it because of the silly...
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