by Becca Edwards | May 29, 2024 | Latest Posts
The story in southeast Texas, including the Houston metro area, has been flooding and wind. The first flood event happened in East Texas in the end of April, when some locations like Jasper County reported rain rates greater than six inches per hour leading to large...
by Bee Moorhead | May 24, 2024 | Civic Engagement, Get Involved, Latest Posts
Click Here to Download our "Mail Time" Print Out! To paraphrase a trademarked slogan, “Neighbor, when’s the last time you wrote a letter to the editor? Well, that’s too long!” Summer is an ideal time to submit your thoughts on...
by Bobby Watson | May 24, 2024 | Human Rights, Latest Posts, Law Enforcement
In Texas, May is a special time for gun violence survivors. Within its markers are the anniversaries of two major school shootings – the Santa Fe High School shooting on May 18th and the Uvalde Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24th. It is a hard time for many,...
by Becca Edwards | May 24, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
A global sea surface temperature anomaly plot showing cooler than average sea surface temperatures in the eastern Equatorial Pacific, indicating the beginning of the cool phase of the ENSO climate oscillation, also called "La Niña". In the US we often hear the...
by Bee Moorhead | May 17, 2024 | Civic Engagement, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Legislative
This week, interim hearings started in the Texas Senate. On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Higher Education met to hear testimony on three interim charges: “Monitor the Ban on Discriminatory DEI Policies;” “Combating Antisemitism on Texas College Campuses;” and “Campus...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | May 17, 2024 | Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Religious Freedom
“Bienvenida” Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the We Will Resist Summit held in the beautiful borderlands of El Paso. As my Uber driver dropped me off at my destination, we chatted in Spanglish, and I eventually disclosed it was my first time in El...
