Mayor Sylvester Turner and members of Houston City Council today passed the City's Small Business Economic Relief Program (SBERP), which will be funded with $15 million of the City's allocated CARES Act 2020 funds. The program is for small businesses that are most in financial need and exhibit

Common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do, even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs. –  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Of the many questions the deadly coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation to confront, the question of whether to

For years we've been warning that human destruction of wild ecosystems is upsetting nature's delicate balance and putting wildlife -- and humans -- at risk, while leading to dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change. Sadly, it's humanity's mistreatment of nature that has brought the

Since the president refuses to develop a national plan to address the coronavirus pandemic even as the death toll increases, let him hawk beans. He is far more adept at that task than he is at running the country. Nero, the Roman emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned, is a symbol of

In response to the Trump Administration’s racist memorandum excluding undocumented immigrants from the Census 2020 count, Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a federal lawsuit calling for the memorandum to be permanently enjoined as a violation of longstanding constitutional and federal law. The