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City of Houston breaks ground on state of the art neighborhood center in Alief

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City of Houston breaks ground on state of the art neighborhood center in Alief
City of Houston breaks ground on new Alief Neighborhood Center and Park
Mayor Turner discusses the Alief Neighborhood Center and Park
HOUSTON – Alief will soon be home to a first-of-its-kind mixed-use center in Houston.

Today, Mayor Sylvester Turner was joined by District F Councilmember Tiffany Thomas and City of Houston department directors for the Alief Neighborhood Center and Park groundbreaking.
The site off Bellaire Blvd. and Kirkwood in southwest Houston will be home to a new $54-million mixed-used center that will accommodate three City of Houston Facilities under one roof.

The Alief Neighborhood Center is the first City of Houston facility designed specifically to provide the delivery of popular public services through the Library, Parks & Recreation, and Health departments’ combined resources.

“This new facility will provide community members and visitors with the opportunity to gather and socialize, mingle and play,” said Mayor Sylvester Turner. “Last year, I added the Alief-Westwood area in the second phase of my Complete Communities Initiative. We are excited to be able to provide new programming and services that will meet the community’s needs and demands.”

“Today is not just about the residents of Alief and their vision finally coming to fruition, but this is about us imagining what our city could look like when we invest funding. when we design buildings with resiliency, with community input in mind, and we leverage our city buildings as assets for all,” said District F Councilmember Tiffany Thomas. “This is just one example of how we can have a more complete community. We believe revitalization is happening in our community, and this model will demonstrate that for the city.”

The new 69,900 square foot facility and renovated park will enhance the departments’ programming opportunities both inside the building and in the park. Parks programming includes HPARD’s After-School and Summer Enrichment Programs for Youth, Summer and After-school Meals Programs, sports and recreation leagues for youth and adults, fitness classes and weight room access, leisure and educational activities for seniors, swimming and learn to swim programs. There will also be soccer fields and a skate park on-site.

“The new Alief Neighborhood Center will be a game-changer for the Alief community,” said Steve Wright, Houston Parks and Recreation Department director. “It’s destined to become a neighborhood landmark while providing a multitude of much-needed services in a single location. It’s also an excellent example of City departments working together toward a single goal. I expect it to become a model for the nation on how different City departments can collaborate effectively to answer the needs of a community.”

The public library will provide access to books as well as digital resources and state of the art technology.

“This project is all about interdepartmental collaboration and the best use of City resources,” said Dr. Rhea Lawson, Houston Public Library director. “The Houston Health Department, Parks and Recreation Department and the Houston Public Library have a longstanding history of working together to best meet the needs of the communities we collectively serve and this latest endeavor is an example of our continued concerted effort to provide “one stop” services to Houstonians in their communities.”

The new Alief Neighborhood Center will mark a significant expansion of the Houston Health Department’s Diabetes and Wellness Network, which provides free diabetes self-management education and many other health-related services to Houstonians in order to reduce and prevent chronic disease.

The center will also house a WIC clinic and offer services through the Harris County Area Agency on Aging, which coordinates various comprehensive services for adults 60 years or older and their caregivers.

“The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the importance of accessible and equitable programs and services that empower all Houstonians to live healthy lives,” said Stephen L. Williams, Houston Health Department director. “This center brings vital public health programs to the Alief community that will serve every age group, from babies through our WIC program, to adults with our chronic disease program, all the way to older adults through our aging program.”

The Alief Neighborhood Center and Park is scheduled to open Spring 2022.

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ERIKA ENDER LANZA SU NUEVO ÁLBUM MP3-45 ESTE VIERNES

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ERIKA ENDER LANZA SU NUEVO ÁLBUM MP3-45 ESTE VIERNES
ESTE VIERNES ERIKA ENDER LANZA
SU NUEVO ÁLBUM
MP3-45 

CELEBRARÁ EL LANZAMIENTO DEL ÁLBUM
CON DOS ESPECIALES ESTA SEMANA
MP3-45. . . BEHIND THE ALBUM – 12 DE NOV
ERIKA EN ÍNTIMO – 13 DE NOV

MP3-45 
9 episodios (historias hechas canción)
3 idiomas (español, inglés y portugués)
2 épocas (la moderna y la clásica)
Una artista

MIAMI, Florida (9 de noviembre de 2020). La cantante y compositora, productora y filántropa Erika Ender, ganadora de múltiples premios, incluyendo varios Latin GRAMMY, lanza su esperado nuevo álbum MP3-45 bajo el sello BMG este viernes, 13 de noviembre.

Para celebrar el debut de la producción discográfica, Erika ofrecerá dos eventos especiales esta semana: MP3-45  Behind the Album este jueves, 12 de noviembre en su canal de YouTube, documental lanzado en vivo a las 7:00 PM hora de Miami con todos los detalles de la producción del álbum; y Erika En Íntimo, una presentación y conversación íntima de la artista, via Zoom, sobre las canciones que conforman el álbum, el 13 de noviembre, también a las 7pm de Miami. La información para poder ser parte de estos eventos especiales estará disponible en las redes sociales de la artista, @erikaender en todas las plataformas.

MP3-45 es un viaje en la evolución, a través del bagaje cultural y musical de Erika Ender que realza e ilumina cada lado de la cantautora. Suma la multiculturalidad de Erika, la música con la que creció y que la hizo la artista y compositora que es. Incluye tres covers que marcaron su vida y seis canciones inéditas que cuentan momentos importantes de su vida.

Erika grabó MP3-45 junto al productor ganador de premios GRAMMY y Latin GRAMMY, Moogie Canazio, en el 2019 y el 2020, en Río de Janeiro, Los Angeles y Miami. Juntos, transfirieron su esencia a la cinta.

“Este álbum es un reflejo de quién soy realmente”, dice Ender. “Soy una mujer moderna e independiente que piensa fuera de la caja pero mis valores internos son de la vieja escuela. Mi ética es muy clásica en términos de moral y siempre trato de imprimir un mensaje en mi música y letras. Nací y crecí en una familia multicultural y en MP3-45 no me estoy enfocando solo en un género o en un idioma; estoy mezclando todo lo que soy”.

Son nueve episodios convertidos en canción, representando dos épocas, que muestran sus raíces, orígenes y evolución en un concepto. . . 45 representa “la Erika clásica” (Lado B/Covers), que recopila tres regrabaciones de temas de vinilos, (45 rpm) favoritos de su infancia. Mientras que MP3 consta de seis temas inéditos (Lado A/Temas Originales).

De lo sinfónico a lo electrónico, pero con la misma esencia; MP3-45 es una propuesta atrevida y única, que mezcla distintos géneros y tres idiomas (inglés, español y portugués) para un mundo cada vez más globalizado, en el que la música es, por encima del género o lenguaje, el idioma más universal.

Listado de canciones de MP3-45 :

Lado A – MP3 (Canciones Inéditas)
1. Darnos Un Día
2. Cosas que echo de menos
3. Até logo
4. Si Te Quieres Quedar
5. In The Middle
6. Missing You Today
Side B – 45 (Covers)
1. Abrázame
2. Só Louco
3. When I Fall In Love

One Club. 11-17-20. Hold It Down 🤘

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One Club. 11-17-20. Hold It Down 🤘

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IN ONE WEEK!

The Houston Dynamo and Houston Dash are excited for November 17th at 11am when we will have a big announcement to share with everyone.  It’ll be hosted by Stu Holden, and we can’t wait to share the future of the club with you.  Get ready, and as always, Hold It Down H-Town.
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7 homicides erupt across Houston in less than 24 hours

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7 homicides erupt across Houston in less than 24 hours

A violent 24 hours across the Houston area involved several different shootings that left seven people dead. Here’s what we know about each investigation so far.

SOUTH POST OAK

A warehouse owner in southwest Houston opened fire at a person trying to rob him late Sunday night. According to Houston police, the owner was assaulted by a robbery suspect armed with a metal pipe and gun at around 11:45 p.m. in the 14000 block of South Post Oak Boulevard.

The 29-year-old business owner shot the robber multiple times, killing the suspect, police said. The victim suffered injuries to his arm and head.

Harris County prosecutors are expected to present the case to a grand jury.

MONTROSE BOULEVARD

Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man found dead on a sidewalk at 4200 Montrose Boulevard at about 6:40 a.m. There’s no known suspect in the case.

TOWN PARK DRIVE – SOUTHWEST HOUSTON

Houston police said a man was found shot to death in an elementary school parking lot Monday morning near the West Sam Houston Parkway.

The man was found just before the start of the school day at Collins Elementary. Investigators believe the death is unrelated to the campus.

Detectives said the victim was a Hispanic male in his 20s. A passerby reportedly heard gunshots in the area before police discovered the man’s body.

YELLOWSTONE BOULEVARD

Houston police detained a possible suspect after two men were found stabbed in the 5100 block of Yellowstone Blvd., near MLK Blvd., at about 8 a.m. One of the victims died. There’s no word on any motive in the case.

ALABAMA STREET NEAR THIRD WARD

Houston police said a man, who was known for hanging around the area, was shot to death in front of a food store Monday afternoon.

Commander for HPD’s South Central Patrol Caroleta Johnson told Eyewitness News the man was with a group of people at the time of the shooting.

She said the victim was shot several times. Johnson described the suspect as a man in his 40s who is also known to hang around the area. He was last seen wearing a white shirt with long sleeves and a red and white beanie.

She said he is known to carry a colostomy bag and rides a black bicycle.

NORTH FREEWAY

An investigation is underway after a Houston police officer was shot and killed in north Houston, according to Houston police. A heavy police presence was seen Monday afternoon outside the motel.

Details about what led to the shooting or if anyone has been detained are unknown. A witness at the scene who heard the gunshots told ABC13 he saw the officer running toward the motel after shots were fired.

KUYKEHDAHL AND W RANKIN ROAD

Houston police is investigating a deadly shooting in north Houston near Kuykehdahl and W Rankin Road.

According to a tweet posted on the Houston Police Department’s Twitter account, a SWAT team along with K-9 units are searching for a man they say shot a woman to death near a business in the area.

Nasdaq, other stock exchanges consider relocating to Texas

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Nasdaq, other stock exchanges consider relocating to Texas

Wall Street moving to Big D? Nasdaq, other stock exchanges consider relocating to Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott to meet with Nasdaq, other stock exchange officials Nov. 20

Officials from Nasdaq and other major stock exchanges will meet with Gov. Greg Abbott on Nov. 20 in Austin to discuss a possible move from New Jersey to Texas, nbcdfw.com and the Dallas Morning News reported.

The meeting comes on the heels of the exchanges threatening to move their trading platforms out of New Jersey, the report said.

Abbott and other Texas officials plan to boast the state’s business-friendly environment during the meeting.

“Texas continues to be the premier economic destination in the country, attracting more leading businesses than any other state,” spokeswoman Renae Eze said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News. “The governor looks forward to meeting with Nasdaq and showcasing Texas’ business-friendly environment, skilled workforce, robust infrastructure, and low taxes, all of which foster greater economic growth in the Lone Star State.”

According to The Dallas Morning News, Abbott’s office has been talking with Nasdaq and other exchanges about moving their data centers to Dallas because of a potential tax on financial transactions in New Jersey.

The proposed tax would charge a quarter of a cent per “financial transaction” at entities in New Jersey that process at least 10,000 transactions annually via electronic infrastructure, the Dallas Morning News reported. That tax would generate an estimated $10 billion annually for the state.

Most major stock exchange operators, including the New York Stock Exchange operate their trading platforms from data centers in New Jersey.

Con récord absoluto de 29 tormentas tropicales: se forma tormenta subtropical Theta sin amenaza alguna para Texas

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Con récord absoluto de 29 tormentas tropicales: se forma tormenta subtropical Theta sin amenaza alguna para Texas
¿Cuál es el peligro?:

La tormenta subtropical Theta se ha formado en el Atlántico. Theta es la tormenta con nombre número 29 de la temporada de huracanes 2020, y rompe el récord de la mayor cantidad de tormentas en una sola temporada de huracanes. Según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes, Theta se mueve actualmente de este a noreste hacia el Atlántico oriental. Theta no representa amenaza alguna para Texas.

Qué necesita hacer:

La temporada de huracanes concluye hasta el 30 de noviembre. Si bien la tormenta subtropical Theta no afectará a Texas, aún debe cerciorarse que usted y su familia estén preparados.

HAGA UN PLAN

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Record Breaking Subtropical Storm Theta Forms, No Threat to Texas

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Record Breaking Subtropical Storm Theta Forms, No Threat to Texas
Record Breaking Subtropical Storm Theta Forms, No Threat to Texas
What is the danger?
Subtropical Storm Theta has formed in the open Atlantic. Theta is the 29th named storm of the 2020 Hurricane Season, and this breaks the record for the most number of storms in a single hurricane season. According to the National Hurricane Center, Theta is currently moving east-northeast toward the eastern Atlantic. Theta poses no threat to Texas.
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What you should do:
Hurricane Season does not end until November 30th. While Tropical Storm Theta will not impact Texas, you should still take time to make sure you and your family are prepared.
 
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Supreme Court appears to signal Obamacare will survive latest GOP challenge

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Supreme Court appears to signal Obamacare will survive latest GOP challenge

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested Tuesday that it wasn’t the Supreme Court’s role to invalidate the entire sprawling, 900-page Affordable Care Act, even if one or more provisions are deemed unconstitutional, signaling the key parts of Obamacare will survive the latest court challenge.

As the pandemic rages, President Donald Trump lashes out at election returns and President-elect Joe Biden prepares for a new administration, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments to discuss whether to invalidate the linchpin of the nation’s health care system.
The Trump administration and several Republican-led states are asking the court to strike down the law, 10 years after it was passed, potentially impacting millions of Americans. Should Roberts and Kavanaugh, at the very least, side with the court’s three liberals, the law would remain intact.
Roberts said simply that if Trump and Republicans wanted to kill the law, they could have done it.
“I think it’s hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire act to fall if the mandate was struck down when the same Congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act,” Roberts told the attorney representing Texas, one of the states fighting the law.
“I think, frankly, that they wanted the court to do that, but that’s not our job,” Roberts added.
At another point Kavanaugh told a lawyer supporting the law that he agreed with his position that some provisions could be severed if necessary. “I tend to agree with you on this very straightforward case for severability,” he said.
Roberts and other justices began their questions asking whether the individual plaintiffs and Republican-led states can show that they have the legal injury necessary to allow them to bring the challenge to the law. This discussion on standing is a dry legal concept but it could be critical.
Supporters of the law say the challengers have no legal injury because after Congress amended the law in 2017 there is no longer a penalty for failing to buy health insurance. Lawyers for the Democratic-led states and the House of Representatives say the court should therefore dismiss the challenges
But several of the justices floated hypotheticals suggesting that even if there was no longer a penalty for not following a regulation there could still be an injury, suggesting that a challenge could be brought.
Justice Clarence Thomas, for instance, asked about a potential regulation that required someone to wear a mask, even if there were no penalty for a failure to do so.
“What if someone violates that command, let’s say it’s in similar terms to the mandate here but no penalty, would they have standing to challenge the mandate to wear a mask?” Thomas asked.
So far, the justices have lain low, avoiding any significant participation in post-election litigation, but now all eyes will be on the court as it sorts through the most controversial case of the term, which could impact tens of millions of Americans — including roughly 20 million who have gained coverage over the law’s exchanges and the expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults.
Also at risk are popular provisions that protect those with preexisting conditions as well as those that allow parents to keep their children on their health insurance plans until the age of 26.

Third time back at the court

The dispute pits California and other Democratic-led states against Texas and Republican-led states plus the Trump administration.
This is the third time the court has heard a significant challenge to the law, although this time the stakes are heightened given the implications of Covid-19, the catastrophic deaths and the current burdens facing the health care industry.
In 2012, Roberts cast the key vote in a 5-4 decision that stunned Republicans, holding that the law’s individual coverage mandate was valid under Congress’ taxing power. By 2017, the Republican-led Congress cut the tax penalty for those who lacked insurance to zero as part of the year-end tax overhaul.
The Republican-led states sued, arguing that since the mandate was no longer tied to a specific tax penalty, it had lost its legal underpinning. They also argued that because the individual mandate was intertwined with a multitude of other provisions, the entire law should fall, including protections for people with preexisting conditions.
Last December, a federal appeals court held that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. But critically, the court punted on whether the rest of the massive law — even provisions unrelated to the mandate — could remain on the books.
In court, Texas Solicitor General Kyle D. Hawkins said the 2017 change made the individual mandate unconstitutional. “It is a naked command to purchase health insurance, and, as such, it fall outside Congress’ enumerated powers,” he said. “The proper course is to take Congress at its word and declare the mandate unconstitutional and inseverable from the remainder of the ACA,” he said.
Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall sided with Texas on the issue, arguing that the mandate “exceeded” Congress’ powers. The government is making the relatively new argument that the entire law should fall but the ruling should apply only to the 18 states that brought the challenge. Texas told the justices that it thinks the Justice Department’s narrowed remedy would cause chaos and require that the states bringing the challenge heavily subsidize other states.
During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly said he would come up with an alternative but never issued any substantive details. His three Supreme Court appointees — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — will play a key role in deciding the future of the law.
Barrett, before taking the bench, expressed criticism concerning Roberts’ original reasoning to uphold the law. But during her confirmation hearings last month she declined to tip her hand as to how she might rule on the dispute.
In court Barrett too, zeroed in on the intent of Congress in 2017.
“So what should we make of the fact that Congress didn’t repeal the provision?” she asked.
At another point she noted that Congress was “free” to come back in and better explain what it meant to do.

Question of severability

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act think the court should uphold the entire law. But in case it does strike down the mandate, they stress that Congress never meant to bring down the entire law when it made changes in 2017.
“Congress made a single surgical change,” California Solicitor General Michael Mongan told the justices. He stressed that the rest of the law should remain in effect if the mandate is struck “because that’s the very framework Congress itself already created.”
Former US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, arguing on behalf of the House of Representatives, argued that the two individuals and Republican-led states do not have the legal injury necessary to bring the challenge. He said that now that Congress has brought the penalty down to zero, those who refuse to buy health insurance are no longer faced with a tax for failing to do so.
“There is just no way that Congress would have preferred an outcome that throws 23 million people off their insurance, ends protections for people with preexisting conditions and creates chaos in the health care sector,” he said.
Justice Elena Kagan seemed to agree. “A lot of legislation now is in these huge packages,” she said, “and it would seem a big deal to say that if you can point to injury with respect to one provision and you can concoct some kind of inseverability argument, that it allows you to challenge anything else in the statute.”
Justice Samuel Alito suggested at one point that the law had been functioning since the mandate had been brought to zero. Referencing an airplane, he said, “the plane has not crashed” without the individual mandate.
Roberts pressed Verrilli, who had argued in favor of the law when he served as solicitor general for the Obama administration, on the fact that back then the government had repeatedly stressed how important the individual mandate was to the entire law. On Tuesday Verrilli argued the opposite. “Why the bait and switch?” Roberts asked.
Twice in the previous court term, the justices relied on severability doctrine to save laws after finding individual provisions unconstitutional. In one case Roberts wrote, “We think it clear that Congress would prefer that we use a scalpel rather than a bulldozer.”
In another case, Kavanaugh pressed his belief that the court in the case at hand should work to “salvage rather than destroy” a law with an unconstitutional provision.
Some legal experts doubt that the justices would strike the down the whole law.
Notre Dame Law professor Richard Garnett, who is close with Barrett, said in a statement that he doubted the court would invalidate the entire law. “Although in 2017 Congress lowered to zero the penalty for failing to comply with the so-called ‘individual mandate,’ there is very little chance that a majority of the justices will conclude that this move renders the entire ACA — including portions dealing with coverage for pre-existing conditions — unconstitutional,” he said.
And although Biden was vice president when the law passed, experts say the fact that the Senate may remain majority Republican will complicate his efforts to save the law.
“Biden would need to pass a law to kick the case to the curb,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School.
Bagley said such a law would be “simple” to draft. “Congress could increase the tax penalty to a nominal amount (say, $1); it could eliminate the language telling people to buy insurance; or it could add a severability clause. Any one of those laws would kill the case,” he said.
“If Republicans still control the Senate after this election, they’re unlikely to play ball. Whatever the Supreme Court says is likely to stick.”
Near the end of the arguments, Wall, perhaps making the Trump administration’s last significant argument before the Supreme Court in a blockbuster case, said that the individual mandate “exceeds Congress’ enumerated powers” and that the court should leave it up to the “political branches to decide how to proceed.”

Suspect accused of shooting HPD sergeant to death arrested

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Suspect accused of shooting HPD sergeant to death arrested

The man accused of killing a Houston police sergeant is now in custody.

Robert Soliz, 24, was booked into jail Tuesday 24 hours after the shooting death of Sgt. Sean Rios.

Rios was killed Monday afternoon in the 7900 block of the North Freeway after police say he engaged the Soliz in a gun battle. After being shot, Rios ran into the Taj Inn & Suites motel looking for help and collapsed. He was declared dead at the scene.

HPD Chief Art Acevedo said Rios was headed to the airport for his 2 p.m. shift when he was involved in the shootout. Authorities and witnesses say the officer, who was wearing plain clothes, was shot multiple times.

A witness at the scene who heard the gunshots told ABC13 he saw the officer running toward the motel searching for help.

“He was just bleeding everywhere, all over, and just not running right. He entered the office at the motel and he collapsed right in there,” the witness said.

This was the seventh murder to have taken place in the city of Houston on Monday. It is also the second Houston police officer killed in three weeks, and the fourth Houston police officer killed in 12 months.

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