Mayor Andrew Ginther speaking at Columbus Public Health offices.
Columbus is trying out an alternative response program to steer some 911 calls away from the police.
City leaders have spent months trying to figure out how to tailor response so the right service providers show up after someone calls 911. Over the next six weeks, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther explains, they’ll be piloting a program to do just that.
“To make this happen, we will have a social worker or mental health nurse embedded in our 911 dispatch center to help triage and redirect calls,” Ginther said.
Erika Clark Jones, who heads up the county’s drug and mental health agency, ADAMH, said many of the calls that come in don’t require police response.
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No Roads (The Garden)
After living through a year that brought a devastating tornado and a deadly global pandemic, rapper Reaux Marquez felt inspired to craft an album that reflected the loss and tumult he and his North Nashville community experienced.
No Roads is an immersive, narrative album, opening with the spoken line, âThe child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.â Marquez produced the album himself, and he adds flourishes of jazz, spoken word, R&B and field recordings into his fiery, moody soundscapes, which add color and texture to his versatile flow. To boot, Marquez also assembled a killer lineup of featured artists, including local mainstays like A.B. Eastwood, Jamiah, Namir Blade and Lauren McClinton. BRITTNEY McKENNA
Here are the local acts who made music that helped Joey Guerra get through 2020.
Joey Guerra December 30, 2020Updated: January 4, 2021, 1:16 pm
‘White Power Outage,’ Free Radicals Photo: album cover / album cover
It’s always tough narrowing down a list of the year’s best Houston-made albums. There’s an abundance of talent, to be sure, that rarely gets the notice it deserves. There are also just so many different kinds of singers and bands and musicians. It’s another display of Houston’s much-heralded diversity.
The past year posed a unique challenge for every musician. They were expected to balance moments of escapism and thoughtful ruminations on everything we experienced this year: dirty politics, pandemic horror, confronting racism. And it had to sound great.