Major construction in Galleria area could impact several businesses
HOUSTON – Two critical connector ramps at the interchange of the Southwest Freeway and the West Loop are closing starting this Thursday.
The project near the Galleria is about to slow down Houston for at least the rest of the year.
It’s a huge headache for businesses in the area.
First, they had to survive the pandemic, now this years-long construction project could make it a lot tougher for these shops to attract and keep customers.
“I just think about the stress, and I’m just like why. Why?!” said Elva Medrano with Liberty Taco.
Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the freeway, the Houston area once again rolls out the red carpet of crazy. Normally, traffic warnings might include freeway closures, hazardous chemical spills, hundreds of nighttime bicyclists or people stopping in the middle of the highway for a marriage proposal (we wish we were kidding). All frustrating and weird, but mostly avoidable and routine in the fourth largest city in the country.
But, 2020, despite a lack of traffic thanks to the pandemic, was still one of the most deadly years on Houston-area roadways in quite sometime. And it looks like 2021 is going to be just as anomalous.
By Nik Rajkovic
Apr 12, 2021
President Biden is nominating more judicial nominees as Democrats try to undo Trump s legacy in courtrooms around the country.
The Trump administration was able to appoint more than 200 federal judges in just four years. Josh Blackman at the South Texas College of Law Houston says Democrats will probably get nowhere close.
“The lower courts, the Democrats have a very slight majority in the Senate, so they ll be able to fill a lot of the vacancies in the courts of appeal and the district courts,” he says. “It s going to be a little trickier though with the Supreme Court, because they ll need a vacancy to arise and it s not clear there will be a vacancy right away.”
By Nik Rajkovic
Apr 12, 2021
Election integrity remains a top priority in Austin where state lawmakers continue to push legislation to tighten up the process and increase the punishment for violators.
One is House Bill 6, which aims to prevent fraud, while increasing criminal penalties. Jonathan White, head of the election fraud division at the Texas AG s Office, recently told lawmakers his office is currently handling a record number of cases.
“Our cases are currently at an all-time high,” he told the House Elections Committee this month. “We have 510 offenses pending against 43 defendants in court right now.”
“We have a lot of mail ballot fraud cases and that universe is pretty small around that case. That investigation is pretty straight forward. But vote harvesting touches an entire community of senior citizens across multiple individuals working in an organization, sometimes in different layers.”