Pennsylvania to raise capacity on indoor, outdoor events on Monday
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Pennsylvania to raise capacity on indoor, outdoor events on Monday
FOX 29 s Chris O Connell has more on Pennsylvania allowing 50% capacity at indoor events and 75% at outdoor gatherings on Monday.
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - Pennsylvania is bumping up capacity limits on indoor and outdoor events on Monday as America begins to slowly emerge from the coronavirus pandemic that ravaged the country for more than a year.
Beginning at midnight large indoor events like weddings, proms and conventions can welcome up to 50% of the room s maximum occupancy. Outdoor spaces, which health officials believe limit the spread of COVID-19, can bump up to 75% capacity.
North Wildwood is hoping for a lifeboat from the federal government after its spent the last several years using taxpayer dollars to combat beach erosion.
Sunday, February 14, 2021
As lovebirds hunker down together to celebrate Valentine’s Day with what looks to be a romantic evening snowfall, rumors swirl that Texas’ grid infrastructure might not be able to handle the upcoming inclement weather.
Many Texans quickly learn that Texas is the only state in the nation with its own power grid, mainly to avoid federal regulation. That grid is operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a company that releases warnings that “rolling outages” in duration of 10-45 minutes could befall customers across the state if demand outstrips supply.
As a precautionary measure, UT announces that campus will close at 4 p.m. and remain closed until Wednesday, February 17, at 8 a.m. That includes all virtual classes as well. UT Libraries immediately close.
“Four days,” Qusay Hussein tells me, echoing an experience many in Austin and across the state went through in mid-February when an overloaded electricity grid failed amid a winter storm. Four days without electricity, waiting for the world to spark back to life with the flick of a switch.
Between Sunday and Thursday, Hussein, a senior who graduates this spring with a double major in psychology and social work, padded around his off-campus apartment in the dark, cooking food and checking on his friends.
In some ways, Hussein is a typical undergraduate student at Texas. He’s eloquent and intellectually curious, an international student who has quickly adapted to a new culture. He’s an ambitious person and learner, with plans to soak in everything he can until he earns his PhD in psychology. But most graduates set to virtually walk across the stage this May aren’t 32 years old. Most aren’t refugees escaping war-torn Iraq. And certainly none have navigated getting their de
John Matthias Kuehne was a polymath. A professor at UT, he pioneered work on electromagnetism, eventually chairing the physics department. He was tasked with scouting the location for the McDonald Observatory. He was a singer and actor who occasionally got top billing in Austin Little Theater plays. A budding horticulturist, he grafted trees in his garden. But perhaps his most lasting contribution to society was his other hobby: photography.
Kuehne took the above photograph in the 1930s of a man and a woman walking along Shoal Creek. While it’s in black and white, he experimented widely with color, and is believed to have taken the first color photographs of campus. Upon his death in 1960, his family donated his prolific set of glass-plate negatives to the Texas History Center, and a few months later, his work was immortalized in a photography retrospective in this very magazine. The accompanying text notes a familiar refrain Kuehne used when explaining how he maintained such a va