For mental health support related to COVID-19, call the state’s 24/7 toll-free support line at 833-986-1919 or text “COVID” to 832-479-2135. You can also reach a trained crisis counselor through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by calling 800-273-8255 or texting 741741.
There is a new report out this week that will probably cause increased COVID concern for those with children, grandchildren, young nieces and nephews: in NY City, which could be a harbinger of things to come for other parts of the country, including kid-friendly South Texas — pediatric admissions for COVID have recently seen a five-fold increase, close to double the number in D.C. (Source: CNN.)
Editor's note: Another Dec. 7th (Pearl Harbor Day) has come and gone. Has humanity learned anything from war? Probably not based on the state of the world.
Dr. Hans Mark, a world-renowned aerospace engineer who was in Mission Control during the first moon landing and who 20 years later, as chancellor of the powerful University of Texas System, helped lawmakers bring Pan American University in Edinburg and Brownsville into that prestigious higher education network, died on Dec. 18 at the age of 92.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was recently named a 2021 Top Colleges for Your Money by Forbes.com, joining a prestigious list that also includes Stanford, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Harvard and MIT.
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