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The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts announces the appointment of Joel Luks as its new Marketing and Communications Director. Luks joins the Hobby Center with more than two decades of experience in arts leadership, marketing strategy, public relations and storytelling across the performing arts, higher education and cultural sectors.

AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott announced that a Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant of $4,162,550 has been extended to Arm Inc. for an expansion of their Austin campus to include a new semiconductor lab with failure analysis capabilities. The expansion is expected to create more than 320 jobs and represents more than $71 million in capital investment.

AUSTIN – Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Billy Joel Alfaro – a repeat offender wanted for various crimes across the state – is this month’s Featured Fugitive. The reward for information leading to his arrest is increased to $6,000 during February if the tip is received this month.

AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott delivered remarks alongside First Lady Cecilia Abbott at the Inaugural Texas Women’s Leadership Conference (TWLC) in Austin. The conference, hosted by the First Lady and the Governor’s Commission for Women, connects women leaders across the state, providing them with expertled sessions, networking opportunities, and insightful discussions.

As an update from C.H.A.M,P, your local 501(C)3 nonprofit, since partnering with Peters Hall, we have fully anticipated having our Lenten fish fry’s out there, but the new jointly owned building just wasn’t ready, so we’re overjoyed to announce that Pastor Scott Heitschusen at Life-Bridge Church has graciously invited us back to their facility to host our drive through fish fry’s.

Disclaimer: Arrests and court records are public information, and the press has the right to publish them under the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law

The older I get, the more I have to forget, and believe me, I don’t forget to forget. I can’t keep up with dates, holidays, or even my birthday. I believe a day is a day, and that should be the end of it.

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, in his seminal work, A Secular Age, poses a brilliant question: “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, the year 1500 in our Western society, while in 2000, many of us find this not only easy but even inescapable?” Over the next 800 pages, Taylor provides a three-part answer to the question. First, He argues that in the pre-modern world, people instinctively viewed the cosmos and their place in it as an unquestionable artifact of a magnificent creation of God.

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