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KEEP YOUR HEAD UP: Making Working From Home Satisfying
The virtual landscape is vast with virtual meetings, real-time presentations, and online instruction it seems as if we are living our lives and working on virtual platforms for most of our day. Working from home can be satisfying, but you may miss the comradery of...
Health & Safety Measures in the Workplace During COVID-19
For several months now since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic across the world, many people considered nonessential workers have been able to continue working and operating from their homes while following the “stay home, work safe” order. This may be the “new...
The art of optimizing your workplace during COVID-19
Ensuring that your business survives and thrives during the work disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not easy feat. However, it is during drastic changes that you learn not only what your brand is made of, but also what your staff is made of as well. ...
Social Media Strategies
Social media is a necessity for any business when faced with a crisis. It’s important to continue to reach your audience, clients, and consumers by way of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram with an emergency communication plan. The ability of social media platforms reach to...
Personal Finances in COVID-19 Times
If you’ve been following all the up-to-date news and information about COVID-19, you’re aware of more precautions and necessary measures being taken by federal authorities. More and more businesses, restaurants, and public facilities are being shut down and an...
Effective Tips When Working from Home During COVID-19
Confusion. Concern. Uncertainty. Stress. All these emotions are currently being experienced by many of us during these times of COVID-19. Closures of schools, churches, restaurants, bars, gyms, stores, and shopping centers are taking place at local, state, and...
After the Floods
Once is a freak occurrence. Twice is a trend. Twice in less than a year, catastrophic flooding of our city has taken lives, paralyzed us, and cost untold millions in damage to lives and property. As the City and County worked to clear debris and stagnant water, as aid...
Klineberg at 35: Houston and America’s Future
It’s become tradition at this point, something as much a part of the landscape of Houston as barbecue, the Rodeo, and the Astros. This year marks the 35th annual Houston Area Survey, the yearly inquiry into the minds and the lives of our fellow Houstonians by Rice...
Texas Textbooks and Slavery
Texas textbooks are causing a stir again over State curriculum standards. These standards act as minimum requirements for what the textbooks have to cover and at this time they do not require teaching of the Jim Crow laws. When Texas rewrites requirements for a...
SCOTUS Saved Obamacare again, so is the fight finally over?
SCOTUS ruled in favor of subsidies for Obamacare. This is the second time the court saved the Affordable Care Act from the chopping block. The approval from the court quietly pleased moderate Republicans but energized the far right. It shall remain the law as long as...