Opinion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced $5.6 million in rail infrastructure funding for Texas. This funding is part of the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) grant program. Nationally, the CRISI program awarded 46 projects in 32 states and the District of Columbia more than $368 million. These investments will play a crucial role in modernizing our country’s rail infrastructure and strengthening supply chains to reduce congestion and get people and goods where they need to go faster and cheaper. The program will create good-paying jobs and benefit urban and rural communities across the country.

Within the next 40 years, the number of people over the age of 65 in this country will increase by about 70%. Many older Americans -- three in four, according to an AARP survey -- want to live out their golden years at home.

The FBI Houston Field Office is now accepting applications for its upcoming 2022 Teen Academy to be held on Thursday, July 21, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hispanic community and Stuttering Foundation I liked you article “Stuttering Foundation Celebrates National Stuttering Awareness Week” (May 11) because the Stuttering Foundation does such great things for people who stutter. One thing that was not mentioned in the editorial is that the Stuttering Foundation has a strong outreach to the Hispanic community, primarily because of their website www.tartamudez.org which is the Spanishlanguage version of the regular Stuttering Foundation website.

The World Trade Organization recently announced that the United States, European Union, India, and South Africa had finalized a proposal to waive intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines. Soon, all 164 WTO member nations will vote on whether to implement the proposed waiver.

First Wave of Payments Based on Crop Insurance Data The U. S Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon begin receiving emergency relief payments totaling approximately $6 billion through the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) new Emergency Relief Program (ERP) to offset crop yield and value losses.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam. Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday.

Memphis, Tenn. — Today marks the beginning of National Stuttering Awareness Week, a weeklong spotlight on the condition affecting almost 80 million people worldwide. During this year’s observance, the world’s oldest and largest Foundation dedicated to helping those who stutter is celebrating its 75th anniversary of providing help and hope for those who stutter and their families.