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It’s Friday night in Prosper. The show goes on. Censored rap music pipes into a palace that serves Chick-Fil-A, community pride, and some of the best high school football in the country. A few years ago, all that stood here was dirt.

For nearly a year, COVID-19 has been ravaging our friends, family, and neighbors. By now, we all know someone who has been hospitalized due to COVID-19. But many of us may not know what to expect when hospital staff admit our loved ones.

The Capitol riot of Jan. 6 is still making waves throughout the country. Since then, many protesters have said that they did not expect the protest to become violent.

They looked like they were flying to Las Vegas for the weekend. A group of friends, all wearing sunglasses, posed for a photo in front of a private plane, its landing gear on the centerline, waiting for the passengers to board.

“He left a coffee in my car!” may seem like a fairly harmless gesture when law enforcement reads it in a police report.

The holiday season looked different for many this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic as families were urged to keep their distance, but data on cases in Collin County tells a different story.

On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference on COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Texas after touring a mass vaccination site in Arlington, emphasizing that the federal government, not the state, is in charge of vaccine supply.

A photo posted over the weekend on social media of the inside halls of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Plano paints a picture of the times. Eight tents lit in a green glow line the lower lobby of the healthcare center.

2020 was like no other year we have ever experienced. All of us grappled with the wide array of challenges caused by an unexpected worldwide pandemic. We never imagined we would be dealing with all the issues that come with a public health crisis.

When Jo Beth Collier started out in intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) services in the early ’90s, things were good. Funds for group housing and new initiatives from Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) were almost always available.