Community
Texas Chemical Council donates prizes for TCEQ’s Take Care of Texas Art Contest
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Contest is for K-5 students; closing date March 4
Community
Clean Air Laredo responds to EPA announcement rejecting TCEQ’s watered-down cancer risk assessment on ethylene oxide
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Elected officials and residents praise EPA move, but demand swift action from the feds and state to end cancer-causing industrial emissions in Laredo.
Community
COVID-19 vaccine drive-through at City’s Hillside Park and Ride
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Begins Wednesday, Jan. 12; continues through Jan. 26
Community
City of Laredo expands COVID-19 testing accessibility; site moved to Sames Auto Arena
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Drive-through testing at Arena through Mon., Jan. 24
Community
Three LC professors appointed to higher ed board’s Texas Transfer Advisory Committee (TTAC)
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Martinez, Underbakke, and Macdonald will work to ease process for community college students transferring to public four-year university
Community
Bethany House looks to March 2022 “Havana Nights” as major fundraiser
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Local donors are main source of support for the homeless in Laredo
Community
A Laredo plant that sterilizes medical equipment spews cancer-causing pollution on schoolchildren
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Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia. And not when Texas moved to allow polluters to emit more of the chemical.
Community
Sarah Weddington, lawyer in Roe v. Wade case, dies at 76
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“Sarah Weddington, lawyer in Roe v. Wade case, dies at 76” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Community
Sister Maria Luisa: a face of Mercy retires
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The mission of a healthy community, however, remains