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Officials mull the future of UTMB
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Thomas asked members of
the House Select Commit-
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MB's situation calls for an
emergency appropriation by
tee on Hurricane Ike for
their help in restoring
Travelers can do
karaoke at
Houston airport
said Turner, whose com-
mittee held the hearing in
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LEAGUE CITY — The
future of the state's oldest
medical school — hard hit
by Hurricane Ike — and
whether Texas should fund
recovery programs to com-
plement federal assistance
were two
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the medical school. tee, said state officials can't
Callender said the 200- simply wait for help from
people are hard at work bed plan is only an initial the federal government.
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thousands of displaced
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“We must just to keep this at Wednesday's meeting
campus from going bank-
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NASA sets date
for Hubble repairs
WASHINGTON (AP) —
NASA has set a May date
for its space shuttle mission
to fix the Hubble Space
Telescope for a final time.
The space agency
Thursday announced that it
is aiming to launch the shut-
tle Atlantis on May 12 for
what would be an 11-day
repair and upgrade mission
to the $10 billion space tele-
scope.
NASA was going to fix
Hubble in October, but
weeks before the shuttle
launch, a glitch in Hubble’s
science computer forced a
delay.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Fed
up with long lines at the
airport? Try belting out a
tune.
Houston’s Bush Inter-
national Airport is setting
up karaoke booths for trav-
elers, just in time for the
holidays. One will be up
and running on Thursday
afternoon, airport officials
said.
For the past two years,
officials have invited choirs
and bands from local high
schools and churches to
perform at Bush and
Hobby airports during
December. The karaoke
booths seemed the next
logical step, said Caroline
Schneider, assistant airport
manager for customer ser-
vice.
“During the holidays, we
have a lot of our novice
travelers,” she said. “We
thought while they are
waiting, they can just sing a
song.”
Aspiring vocalists can
choose from hundreds of
song titles, Schneider said.
Small prizes will be given
to the singers.
between $400 million and Flooding and Evacuations.
State Sen. Mario Gal- $500 million for working
legos, D-Houston, said UT- capital and reconstruction.
“We need some help right Gov. Rick Perry, have been
now to get back on our highly critical of FEMA's
the Legislature. He said feet,” he said. response in Texas in the
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lay off3,000 employees and
reduce the number of beds
at the medical facility's pub-
lic hospital from 550 to 200.
In an emotional plea,
Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann ^’’chancellor of foe UT
System, said about the need grams and funding ahead of counties
for an emergency appropri- time instead of depending they couldn't finish remov-
ing debris because they
were waiting for FEMA to
say if it would continue to
fully reimburse them for
these cleanup efforts. The
federal government has
since extended that bene-
fit.
Five other committee
meetings are scheduled
through January. The com-
mittee expects to submit its
report by mid-January.
ation. on the federal government
Lawmakers grilled UT- for help afterward.
UTMB, the top employer in MB President Dr. David
Galveston County and a Callender about whether the Turner, D-Houston, chair-
major provider of indigent hospital could still support man of the House commit-
care in Southeast Texas.
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state's response to the
storm.
Ike caused $710 million
in losses to the University
of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston when it came
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repairing their houses and configuration
of foe highlights neases,” she said. “But we up to 350 beds within 18 to
24„.months. He also said agement Agency), what is
UTMB is working to create step two? How do we get
affiliations with surround- debris removed, how do we
County leaders are willing ing regional hospitals so its get people in housing?”
whether to create a hospital tinue receiving training.
Callender said UTMB conjunction with the Texas
people to support UTMB's needs immediate funding of Senate Subcommittee on
focused on whether Texas
should prepare for major
storms with recovery pro-
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of a legislative hearing cannot brjng back the hos-
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