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Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities Announces 2021 Barbara Jordan Media Award Winners
June 11, 2021 | Austin, TX | Press Release
The Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities (GCPD) today announced the winners of the 2021 Barbara Jordan Media Awards for media content created in 2020. The Barbara Jordan Media Awards program was established in 1982 to recognize the respectful, accurate portrayal of people with disabilities by media professionals and students. Working in partnership with Baylor University s Journalism, Public Relations and New Media program in the College of Arts and Sciences, GCPD created a virtual awards program highlighting and honoring this year s winners and their outstanding work.
Watch live: Gov. Greg Abbott makes statewide announcement
March 2, 2021
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott should keep the state’s mask mandate going. This is a no-brainer.Ricardo Brazziell /TNS
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Gov. Greg Abbott will be in Lubbock on Tuesday to make what his office has described as a statewide announcement.
Abbott did not hint at what he would announce, though he will be speaking at a Mexican food restaurant in the city and will address small business and community leaders of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. Central. We ll be streaming here it live, thanks to our partners at KXAN in Austin.
Here’s how Samsung’s Austin incentives request compares to other big Texas projects
The deals awarded to Apple, Tesla and Toyota all totaled less than the $1 billion the chipmaker wants.
An aerial view of Samsung Austin Semiconductor s 160-acre campus in North Austin. About 3,000 employees work in the 2.45 million square foot Austin chipmaking plant.(Samsung / Samsung)
By Tribune News Service
Samsung is proposing a taxpayer-subsidized incentives package that could be worth more than $1 billion to convince the tech giant to choose Austin as the home for a new $17 billion chip fabrication plant.
For comparison, here’s a look at other significant incentives agreements, both in Texas and elsewhere, in recent years: