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Trump administration pushes rule changes
In its final days the Trump administration is pushing through dozens of governmental rule changes, the WYP panel discusses some of these in the areas of immigration, consumer protection, and environment
HOUSTON - In what can only be described as a head-spinning flurry of activity, the out-going Trump administration is jamming through dozens of, what critics call, anti-immigration, anti-environment, and anti-consumer governmental rule changes.
Examples would include, narrowing eligibility for asylum seekers, making it more difficult for Americans to qualify for disability benefits, reducing federal payments to states hit by major disasters, weakening enforcement of the clean water act, and lowering the number of people qualifying for food stamps.
Georgia run-off election will Republicans hold on to the Senate - What s Your Point?
HOUSTON -
The stakes simply cannot be overstated, in nine days voters in the state of Georgia will decide, through its pair of senate run-offs, whether President-Elect Joe Biden will have absolute control of our nation s government, or whether Republicans will retain a foothold of power in the upper chamber.
On the one hand, a Democratic sweep in Georgia would allow the new administration to more swiftly reverse much of what out-going President Trump has done over the past four years.
On the flip side, a Republican-controlled senate would serve as a moderating firewall against an across-the-board Biden agenda, much like the Democratically controlled house has been for the past two years with President Trump.
Local leaders concerned I-45 widening plan will create bigger flooding issues in corridor
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HOUSTON – If you talk to Tomaro Bell about TxDOT’s planned renovation for the North Freeway, she won’t nice words.
“Oh hell no. I say no. I say absolutely not,” Bell said, who sits on the Public Safety Committee of the Super Neighborhoods Alliance.
There is no muddying the waters with Bell. She said the I-45 improvement project will lead to just that, more muddy waters.
“When you tell people you are taking elevated freeways and putting them on the ground who just went through Harvey, that doesn’t even make sense. They don’t even have to be a civil engineer,” Bell said.
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Ken Paxton’s ill-fated lawsuit
The WYP panel discusses the Texas lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election results and the Supreme Court s rejection of the case.
HOUSTON - This week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the extraordinary ill-fated step of suing four battleground states on behalf of the people of Texas.
Claiming pandemic-driven changes to election procedures in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin allowed outcome-altering fraud to occur, Democrat Joe Biden to prevail and the interests of the Lone Star state to be injured.
The case was taken straight to the Supreme Court with the backing of the President and more than 160 Republican members of Congress, where it was summarily rejected for lack of standing.
The COVID-19 vaccine is on the way - What s Your Point?
The vaccine is on the way
The WYP panel discusses the coronavirus vaccinations and the distribution plan as the U.S. continues to fight COVID-19
HOUSTON - With the COVID19 vaccine now flowing through the body of the first British recipient, we can only pray that milepost will mark the “beginning of the end” of what remains -a deadly and devastating pandemic.
Here in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration authorities have given final approval for emergency vaccine distribution with more, equally effective variants in the immediate pipeline, awaiting the regulatory “green light”.