New Neighbors
The house across the street from me is finally complete. See the featured photo. Finally, after 15 months. The rebuild is over and new neighbors moved in yesterday. A couple from the Netherlands and they are expecting their first child. I met the soon-to-be-mom yesterday. The hubby is in the energy business, and she is in marketing. Welcome to the neighborhood.
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I saw this tweet yesterday:
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
You know when you are watching a national or local meteorologist like Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Anthony Yanez, or Justin Stapelton on the flat screen, and they are forecasting a major weather event, and they refer to the European model and the American model, well guess what?
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I am sure the “What’s Your Point” folks won’t mention that some of them got it wrong on the COVID related contract stuff at Harris County. See this from the Chron:
Harris County Commissioners signed off on reimbursing more than $870,000 in legal fees to lawyers for County Judge Lina Hidalgo and one of her former staffers charged in connection with the Elevate Strategies prosecution.
The vote passed Thursday with the lone Republican commissioner, Tom Ramsey, opposing the reimbursement totaling $672,402 for a trio of law firms who represented Hidalgo and $200,896 to Aaron Dunn’s criminal defense lawyer. Unlike her former aides, Hidalgo was never charged in connection with COVID-19 vaccine outreach bid-rigging accusations.
Hidalgo was absent from the executive session in which the agenda items were discussed.
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It looks like the Trib still reads Commentary. I have mentioned this a couple of times or so this past week. See this from the Trib:
Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 124 in just one month. A child is dead, 18 more are hospitalized and the worst is likely still ahead, public health experts say, as Texas’ decreasing vaccination rates leave swaths of the state exposed to the most contagious virus humans currently face.
State and local health officials are setting up vaccine clinics and encouraging people to get the shot, which is more than 97% effective at warding off measles.
But neither Gov. Greg Abbott nor lawmakers from the hardest hit areas have addressed the outbreak publicly in press conferences, social media posts or public calls for people to consider getting vaccinated. State and local authorities in West Texas have not yet enacted more significant measures that other places have adopted during outbreaks, like excluding unvaccinated students from school before they are exposed, or enforcing quarantine after exposure.
The response to Texas’ first major public health crisis since COVID is being shaped by the long-term consequences of the pandemic, experts say — stronger vaccine hesitancy, decreased trust in science and authorities, and an unwillingness from politicians to aggressively push public health measures like vaccination and quarantine.
Here is the entire Trib read: Texas leaders quiet amid measles crisis | The Texas Tribune.
Think about it. The State of Texas is too cowardly to save the lives of kids. Sad, indeed.
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Let’s see. The trail riders converge at Memorial Park today. The rodeo parade is Downtown tomorrow morning. There is college baseball at The Yard and Mardi Gras in Galveston this weekend. And don’t forget the Academy Awards Sunday night.
Have a safe weekend!
