Texas city votes to overturn LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination protections

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/arlington-texas-lgbtq-discrimination-vote

Texas’ Solar for All program, left in limbo after the Trump administration canceled federal grant funding, was intended to bring solar panels and batteries to low-income neighborhoods and create jobs by training workers to install the technology.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/09/11/530601/texas-solar-program-left-in-limbo-after-trump-administration-pulls-the-plug-on-250-million-grant/

#EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Epa #FederalFundingCuts #FederalGrant #HarrisCountyAttorneyChristianMenefee #TexasSolarForAllCoalition

Texas solar program left in limbo after Trump administration pulls the plug on $250 million grant

Texas’ Solar for All program was intended to bring solar panels and batteries to low-income neighborhoods and create jobs by training workers to install the technology.

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The #FederalGrant awarded to the #PauliMurrayCenter in 2024 has been cancelled. Would someone explain to me how commemorating someone whose innovative legal arguments are the bedrock of all #CivilRights cases/laws in the 20th Century, & the first #AfricanAmerican #Black #multiracial #female #AFAB #priest of the #EpiscopalChurch who was added to our list of saints in 2018, is not anti-Christian or un-American? https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/04/24/pauli-murray-center-says-federal-grant-authorized-in-2024-has-been-withdrawn/

#PauliMurray

Pauli Murray Center says federal grant authorized in 2024 has been withdrawn

[Episcopal News Service] The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina, has announced that a multi-year, $330,800 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library …

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Center for Latin American Studies awarded $645,000 grant to host Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders cultural exchange program

The Center for Latin American Studies was awarded a $645,000 grant by the U.S. Department of State to fund a cultural exchange program that will host a cohort of 20 students from Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic at Ohio State. The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Student Leaders cultural exchange […]

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Today, Houston received a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study possible solutions for reducing emergency response times to vehicle accidents.

The average response time for fire units in 2023 was up to nine minutes and 30 seconds, up by over three minutes compared to 2017, according to documents obtained by HPM earlier this year.

Houston Public Media

Amtrak has taken on the mantle of the Texas High-Speed Rail Corridor and has received a federal grant of nearly $64 million to begin the final phase of the FRA Corridor Identification Program.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2024/09/03/498444/houston-dallas-high-speed-rail-corridor-million-federal-grant/

#Houston #Local #News #Texas #Transportation #Amtrak #Dallas #FederalGrant #HighSpeedTrain #TexasHighSpeedRailCorridor

Houston to Dallas High-Speed Rail Corridor receives $63.9 million federal grant

The 240-mile route would take under 90 minutes and travel at a top speed of 204 MPH, according to Amtrak.

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In Miami, Buttigieg says Rickenbacker might be eligible for new federal dollars :

Buttigieg acknowledged that transportation facilities vulnerable to hurricanes could rank higher in what he said were very competitive requests for funding. 
#BearCutBridge #DaniellaLevineCava #DepartmentofTransportation #DOT #featured #federalgrant #Hurricane #PeteButtigieg #PlanZ #PROTECTprogram

https://kbindependent.org/2023/10/18/in-miami-buttigieg-says-rickenbacker-might-be-eligible-for-new-federal-dollars/

In Miami, Buttigieg says Rickenbacker might be eligible for new federal dollars

Buttigieg acknowledged that transportation facilities vulnerable to hurricanes could rank higher in what he said were very competitive requests for funding. 

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