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Island University Summer 2022 Commencement Smashes Record with 715 Graduates

CORPUS CHRISTI – The families and friends of a record- breaking 715 Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi graduates gathered in masse at the American Bank Center as their favorite Islander crossed the stage to receive a diploma during the Summer 2022 Commencement ceremony on Aug. 6. It was the largest summer commencement class in the Island University’s 75-year history.

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Texas Comptroller’s Office selects LightBox to develop broadband availability map

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today announced his agency has selected data company LightBox to develop the state’s broadband availability map. The map will help the Comptroller’s Broadband Development Office (BDO) determine where to invest public funding in areas most in need of broadband connectivity as it implements the Texas Broadband Plan.

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Biden-Harris Administration announces nearly $101.6M in funding for Texas projects

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $101.6 million to support six projects in Texas from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program to help move forward on projects that modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports, and intermodal transportation and make our transportation systems safer, more accessible, more affordable, and more sustainable.

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March to Remember honors COVID-19 victims, survivors

By Melissa Cantu Trevino mtrevino@cherryroad.com More than 92 million people in the nation died from the COVID-19 pandemic and over 7.5 million of those people were from Texas, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On Saturday morning, residents from Duval and Jim Wells County residents gathered at the Anderson Park to participate in the second annual COVID March to Remember.

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