This past Monday marked another record-breaking day for COVID-19 cases spread around the greater Houston metroplex – with more than 3,000 cases spread across 20 Houston-area hospitals. With those new cases, Houston has now surpassed the 30,000-case mark. (Source: KHOU-11). Despite a tough June, leading into this month, in terms of COVID cases, the Texas GOP Convention was still set for this week at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. The city’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, had asked the state GOP to cancel convention plans in light of the pandemic, but by a 40-20 vote by the Texas GOP’s ...