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Hightower High School Medical Interns To Present Research Projects At 2010 PIPELINE Program

On July 30, Hightower High School Medical Science Academy interns will present their research projects and findings, and display their scientific posters to a group of medical, health and research professionals at the 2010 PIPELINE Culmination Program and Luncheon, hosted by Dr. Lovell A. Jones and the Center for Research on Minority Health’s Department of [...]

Fort Bend Libraries Observe ‘Teen Read Week’ With Special Programs

Fort Bend County Libraries is joining the American Library Association in celebrating the Second Annual Teen Read Week, now through this Saturday.
 
The week gives special recognition to the county’s growing teen population and their role in establishing new library programs and services reflecting the changing literary dimensions of this new population.
 
The rapid growth in the [...]

Infamous ‘Conficker’ Computer Worm Brings Down Missouri City Computer, Phone Network

Missouri City’s computer and phone network still was experiencing spotty outtages Thursday morning, the result of what IT officials believe is an infection from the Conficker computer virus.
Phones and PCs went offline sometime Tuesday, according to city employees, and the network came back up before 9 a.m. Thursday. However, during a FortBendNow phone interview [...]

FBISD Holding Community Meeting To Discuss Program For Improved Student Achievement

The Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees is inviting the community to attend an Aug. 4 presentation about plans to improve student achievement.
Those plans involve a continuing partnership, established in 2006, with the Leadership and Learning Center.
Dr. Douglas Reeves, founder of the center, “will describe how Fort Bend ISD has created a [...]

Fort Bend Libraries Unveil New ‘Books, etc.’ Web Tool

The Fort Bend County Library System has unveiled its newest web tool, “Books, etc,” which provides additional personal service to library patrons with highlights on books by favorite authors, in favorite genres or on topics of interest.
 
Patrons looking for a new book to read can look at online lists of bestsellers or award-winners, and they [...]

Controversial Cinco High Newspaper Article Sparks Protest At LaCenterra

Amid heavy security from area police agencies, a number of high school students staged a brief demonstration at the LaCenterra shopping center Friday afternoon to protest what they perceived as an insulting article in a recent edition in the Cinco Ranch student newspaper, “County Line.”
 
The protest primarily consisted of students from other Katy ISD high [...]

Katy ISD Seeks To Cool Anger Over Cinco High Newspaper Article

Administrators, high school principals, students and parent support group leaders from across Katy ISD gathered Friday morning for a specially-called Superintendent’s Student Roundtable meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding a recent article in the Cinco Ranch High student newspaper.
 
The meeting, called by Superintendent Alton Frailey, was intended to calm tensions that had risen in the [...]

Libraries Recognize Growing Force Of Teens During ‘Teen Read Week’

Fort Bend County Libraries will joint with the American Library Association in celebrating the 11th annual Teen Read Week, October 12-18.
Throughout next week, the library will give special recognition to the county’s growing teen population and their role in establishing new library programs and services reflecting the changing literary dimensions of this new population.
Library officials [...]

Report Slams Schools For Low Black Male Graduation Rates – Except At Fort Bend

A major report – highly critical of public schools for their poor record of graduating black male students – holds Fort Bend County up as a benchmark for what can be achieved.
In “Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males,” the Schott Foundation for Public Education compiled data [...]

Tony Snow May Mark Latest Chapter Of Lincoln Day Wars

Ever since Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace, Fort Bend County Clerk Dianne Wilson and a trio of recently resigned county GOP officials teamed up to form the Fort Bend Conservative Club, leaders back at the official local Republican Party have been looking in the rear-view mirror.

Fort Bend Politics

By Bob Dunn

C-Club founders have made no secret [...]

News Of Our Demise Was Greatly Exaggerated; FortBendNow To Expand

The discerning reader may have noticed that, despite my having used this space some five weeks ago to announce its imminent demise, FortBendNow somehow refuses to go away.

Fort Bend Politics

By Bob Dunn

I understand an explanation is in order. For the moment, the best one I can offer is this: The Hand of Providence apparently had [...]

Morrison Spices Up Precinct 1 Race; A GOP Newsletter Advertiser Remains Unpaid

Richard Morrison – who took more than 41% of the vote as a political unknown in an unsuccessful but surprisingly close bid to unseat former congressman Tom DeLay in 2004 – will add some spice to the 2008 Fort Bend County Precinct 1 Commission race.

Fort Bend Politics

By Bob Dunn

At a meeting of the Fort Bend [...]

GOP Newsletter All Printed Up With Nowhere To Go

If you want to see the latest issue of the Fort Bend County Republican Party’s newsletter, you can read it on their web site, but don’t look for it anytime soon in your mailbox.

Fort Bend Politics

By Bob Dunn

Some 20,000 copies of the October 2007 edition of The Fort Bend Republican are stacked up and ready [...]