Chron Endorsement
The Chron E-Board endorsed Cong. Sylvia Garcia for the redrawn CD 29. Her opponent, former State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, said this to the E-Board:
“When I look at the base of the party, I do see that the base of the party is the African American vote. We have consistently pushed the African American issues to the side and brought to the forefront the issues of LGBT, the issues of immigration, the issues of everything else but the base of the party.
I think what the Democratic Party has to do is to go to the Black community, go to the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus and figure out what are the issues we want to fight for moving forward? Could that be education? Is that funding HBCUs? Is that criminal justice? Is that banking? Is that access to business funding?”
I think this is disingenuous. Jarvis’s Democratic colleagues have been out there fighting against voter suppression, fighting to protect DEI and school funding, and were at the forefront in the fight against the mid-decade gerrymander.
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This rumor has been out for a while. It was made official yesterday in the Chron. See this:
Two Kroger locations in the greater Houston area will be closing this April, the supermarket chain confirmed.
The Heights location at 239 W. 20th St. and the Klein Crossing location at 6060 FM 2920 Rd. in Spring will both have their last days on April 10.
I go to the Kroger on Yale and 20th all the time for quick visits. It is always busy. I will miss it after it closes.
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I obviously am not an expert in ice dancing. I thought that Madison Chock and Evan Bates were better than the French pair. I think Chock and Bates were robbed.
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There are two Olympic cauldrons this year. The one in the featured photo is in Cortina.
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And this from the Chron:
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tatsuya Imai toed the bullpen mound nearest the short boundary fence, giving the crowd that gathered along it a close look. New teammates and front-office members lined the part across from the mound. General manager Dana Brown stood further down, by the catcher, to watch the Japanese right-hander throw his first bullpen session of Houston Astros spring training.
Attention will follow Imai, the Astros’ biggest free-agent acquisition of the offseason, as he navigates the move to MLB this spring. Houston’s first pitchers and catchers workout Wednesday offered a glimpse of it. A contingent of Japanese-language media arrived at the team’s spring facility to observe. Imai, around his on-field work, conducted two interview sessions in Japanese and another translated to English.
We are going to be paying Imai $18 million this season. I sure hope it works out.