@blueorigin's logo, a feather, represents freedom, perfect flight design & gentle landings. Around town, the silver feathers the company handed out has come to represent all the ways Bezos has changed their community - for good and bad.
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Like @SpaceX, Bezos' company has brought money to the town it occupies. Workers eat at local restaurants, buy houses and have become involved in Van Horn's school and museum. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
Musk's company, @spacex, has about 1,400 employees working to launch humans to Mars. His efforts have rocketed (I'm sorry) investment in Greater Brownsville, including real estate and boosting local businesses ...
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Downtown Brownsville received $10M from Musk, which the city hopes to use to spur even more investment. Real estate prices have also skyrocketed: The average home in Brownsville is now $212K, up 47 percent from last year.
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All three parts of our latest investigation, In Crisis, are now available to read. Reporter Alex Stuckey spent more than a year looking into Texas' secretive mental health care system: chrn.cl/3brIK2N
Part 1: Texas' 10 mental hospitals are stretched beyond capacity, with shocking lack of oversight and waitlists for hospital beds that stretch on for as long as a year. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…
Part 2: The state's mental health system has failed for decades to break away from the criminalization of the mentally ill - as hospital beds decrease, more people find themselves on the street and in trouble. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…
Hey y'all. This is @JeremySWallace from the Austin Bureau for the Chronicle. Gov. Greg Abbott is about to hold a press briefing about COVID-19. I'll be live tweeting during it to keep everyone up to date on what's happening.
The briefing comes a day after Texas reported a new record for hospitalizations. Texas has 3,409 people hospitalized with lab-confirmed COVID-19. Abbott has repeatedly stressed that despite the rising hospitalizations, Texas still has plenty of hospital bed capacity.
Gov. Abbott has been steadily re-opening the state's economy since May 1. Here is a timeline of some key reopening dates.
Hi there! This is Austin bureau reporter @taygoldenstein. @GovAbbott is about to make an announcement about his plans to reopen the Texas economy in just a minute. Follow along here.
.@GovAbbott is set to make an announcement shortly regarding his plans for reopening the economy in Texas. Follow here for updates! (Tweets from @taygoldenstein)
Abbott starts by thanking Texans for following social distancing guidelines, health care workers, “unsung heroes,” like child care and grocery store workers, as well as @realDonaldTrump and local leaders.
Abbott says he has created new statewide “strike force” to help him decide how to reopen the Texas economy. Team includes @DanPatrick, House Speaker @RepDennisBonnen, AG @KenPaxtonTX & comptroller @Glenn_Hegar