New tourism impact study on Coachella Valley Arena
The Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) announced on Monday their study on the tourism impact for the Coachella Valley Arena, a new state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena in the Thousand Palms community of Riverside County.
The arena is being privately financed by Oak View Group (OVG), the global venue development, advisory, and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries.
The impact study looks ahead to the arena s full one-year period of operation in 2023, examining the benefits driven by the visitor component of expected events at the arena, which include professional sports, concerts, family shows, and conventions and conferences.
A bill that recently passed the Texas House and is now in the Texas Senate would expand options in Central Texas for those who receive Medicaid.
The bill, House Bill 3662, was authored by Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, and coauthored by three others, including Rep. Hugh Shine, R-Temple.
Buckley explained over the phone Wednesday that the bill would add the Baylor Scott & White health plan as an option for Medicaid recipients.
âThis bill, basically, if it receives final passage in the Senate and becomes law, could impact 200,000 Medicaid recipients in Central Texas rural service area,â Buckley said.
The rural service area includes all around the Killeen-Fort Hood-Temple area, up to Waco, as far as Bryan and âout west,â Buckley explained.
Originally published on May 14, 2021 7:05 am
It’s been an epically bad week for everyone who relies on water from the Klamath.
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the 114-year-old Klamath water project, announced that for the first time ever, the “A” canal will be closed for the season – meaning no water will be drawn from Upper Klamath Lake for irrigators in the federally-managed Klamath Project.
Reclamation’s initial operations plan allocation for the Klamath Project projected 33,000 acre-feet would be available for more than 150,000 acres of farmland, a fraction of what irrigators would use in a typical year. But Wednesday the Bureau announced that the deepening drought and worsening hydrologic conditions in the Basin would no longer allow diverting even that much water from the lake.
COPPERAS COVE â Jerry âJ.J.â Price has traveled his share of bumpy roads during his 51 years, but now he is facing what may be the biggest fight of his life.
A disabled Army veteran who served at Fort Hood for three years, Price was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and underwent surgery to remove one of his kidneys. In 2019, the disease was detected in his remaining kidney and doctors removed a third of that one.
Recently, the cancer returned yet again and last Wednesday, he underwent another surgery to remove the rest of his kidney.
âI donât think that it has all caught up with me yet,â Price said, two days before his surgery. âIt has all happened so fast.
PAUL CHRISTENSON
t’s time to follow-up with everyone concerning my opinion piece from January 2020 about Baylor’s “gift” of the old hospital to us, the citizens of Waxahachie. I have done a lot of research on the land grant, including the exact acreage that was conveyed, and who would be responsible for the major asbestos removal.
I ask why should the citizens of Waxahachie own and maintain a 120,000 square foot dilapidated hospital, parking lots and an old run down clinic building consuming a 9 acre site rife with asbestos that has been vacant for a number of years and that no one wants to buy? Most of the time the old adage “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” holds true. But when a gift seems too good to be true, someone needs to look at it. But our City Council never did. Inexplicably, the property has nothing to do with City Services. And per the Communications Director down at City Hall, we own it without any assessment of alternative use or valu