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Perry Homes Announces 55-Foot Valencia Product in West Houston

New Product Line Offers Mediterranean-style Stucco Exteriors

Texas-based homebuilder Perry Homes has added a 55-foot Valencia series to its list of homes available in the Katy master-planned community of Cane Island by Rise Communities LLC.

Amy Schneider breaks new 'Jeopardy' record with winning streak

Schneider won her 39th game and also became No. 2 on the all-time consecutive wins list for the game show. Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, now has a total winning pot of $1,319,800.

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Green Joins President Biden for Signing of Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

On Monday, November 15, 2021, Congressman Al Green (TX-09) released the following statement:

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says friend Bruce Willis will be remembered as a ‘great star’ and a ‘kind man’

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a lot of love for Bruce Willis. Schwarzenegger recently talked to CinemaBlend about his friend and fellow action star.

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Harris County Commissioner Ellis, Houston Mayor Turner, Sheriff Gonzalez to Announce Houston’s Third Gun Buyback Scheduled Later This Month

Commissioners Court Last Year Approved 8 Buyback Events as a Coordinated Effort to Reduce Violent Crime

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Sheriff Ed Gonzalez will announce that they will host a gun buyback on Feb. 18 at Deussen Park. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner also will attend the news conference.

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August is National Dog, Wellness AND Golf Month!

Did you know that August is national dog, wellness AND golf month?! I wanted to reach out and introduce you to the residential community that has all three! The Highlands by Caldwell Communities is a National Park-inspired living community outside of Houston, Texas that is dedicated to helping residents of all ages live active, full lives.

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It's the end of pen-and-paper -- and DocuSign is cashing in

The pandemic has accelerated the demise of pen-and-paper signatures -- transforming once-boring DocuSign into a $37 billion tech darling suddenly worth more than Ford Motor, eBay or Best Buy.

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Tech's antitrust problem has been out in the open for years

On January 23, 2013, Dick Costolo, then the CEO of Twitter, teased a new six-second video service with an oddly captivating clip showing how to make steak tartare. The next day, Twitter officially launched Vine, with the potential to put Twitter at the vanguard of mobile videos and establish it as a destination for more than just 140-character bursts of text.

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Why Congress hasn’t made social media safer.

Wednesday’s emotional Senate Judiciary Committee hearing grilling tech CEOs focused on Silicon Valley’s failures to protect kids online. But it also spotlighted Congress’ own glaring — and longstanding — inability to pass any meaningful legislation to rein in tech platforms.

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Good-for-You Sweet Treats

While eating healthy and enjoying sweets seldom go hand-in-hand, choosing the right combination of nutritious ingredients can allow for guilt-free indulgences that shirks conventional dieting wisdom. In fact, some eating plans take it a step further by actually encouraging eating big in the evening when you’re naturally hungriest to help achieve your weight loss goals.

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A political blockade is colliding with the evidence on climate change

In rapid succession, the results of this month's election and the release of blockbuster new scientific studies are widening the distance between the politics and science of climate change.

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Mayor Turner asks Houston Companies to Hire Houston Youth

With the March 27 deadline to sign up just around the corner, Mayor Sylvester Turner called on Houston corporations and nonprofits to join his Hire Houston Youth (HHY) summer jobs program. The mayor has set a goal of providing 5,000 jobs for Houston youth this summer. As of today, there are pledges from companies for just 3,000 positions.

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Thousands of dollars worth of birds stolen from pet shop

Police are investigating after they said several high-priced birds were stolen from a pet store early Tuesday morning.

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To Fulfil Dr. King's Vision, We Must Lift Up the Poor

Dr. Martin Luther King's final mission was to build and launch a Poor People's Campaign across lines of race, religion and region. He called for a "revolution of values" to address the "triplets of evil" -- militarism, racism and economic injustice. People should not die from poverty in the richest nation in the world, he argued. It was time to speak out; silence was a betrayal.

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Spring Native Serves in Navy Aboard Aircraft Carrier Dubbed “Strength from the Sea”

A 2012 Spring High School graduate and Spring, Texas native is serving on one of the world’s largest warships, USS Carl Vinson.

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Porsche offers computerized cruise control for twisty roads

I was going almost 50 miles an hour on a mountain road just north of New York City. Ahead of me, the road curved sharply to the left with just a thin metal railing between the speeding car and a long drop down a mountainside into the Hudson River.

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Rebalance Your Diet

Striking a balance between work and home life, friends and family, and hobbies and errands can contribute to a healthy lifestyle. As you look to rebalance certain aspects of your life during the spring season, don’t forget to take your diet into consideration as well.

Black lives matter in Washington. Does the Senate agree?

Right now, the US is experiencing a long-overdue reckoning on race. Led by young Black women and men, Americans have taken to the streets to protest the unlawful killings of Black people by the police, push for transformational police reform and demand structural change to end oppressive policies.

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Madonna in Malawi to Advocate for Youth Education and Healthcare

Celebrates Serving 10,000 Students and Commemorates One-Year Anniversary of Paediatric Hospital

Madonna is currently visiting Malawi, where she has worked since 2006 with her charitable organization, Raising Malawi. The musician and philanthropist is marking the first anniversary of the Mercy James Centre for Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, an ambitious project undertaken by Raising Malawi to improve specialized paediatric healthcare in Malawi. Located on the campus of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) - the largest referral hospital in the country - the Mercy James Centre includes Malawi's first paediatric intensive care unit, three operating theatres dedicated to surgery in children, a day clinic, and 50-bed ward.

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GirlTrek’s #RoadToSelma Tour Headed to Houston on Aug. 8th

GirlTrek, the largest national public health nonprofit and movement for Black women and girls, is bringing radical self-care and healing to the city of Detroit as part of its yearlong, 50-stop #RoadToSelma tour, a national wellness revival complete with storytelling, sweat, self-care and sisterhood.