From Great Wolf Lodge breaking ground on a new $200M Houston resort, to 100s of protesters at a drag bingo event in Katy, here is news you may have missed this week in Houston.
No worries — we’ve got you covered. Each Sunday, the Houston Chronicle will bring back some of the most important stories you need to read. From the Astros looking ahead to who they will face in the playoffs, to Great Wolf Lodge breaking ground on a $200 million resort in Houston, here's what you might have missed: MISSION, TEXAS - MARCH 23: Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety's Tactical Marine Unit patrol the Rio Grande along the U.
S.-Mexico Border on March 23, 2021 near Mission, Texas. Texas DPS troopers are taking part in Operation Lone Star in supporting U.S. Border Patrol agents to"deny Mexican Cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas." A surge of immigrants, including unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States from Mexico is overcrowding processing and detention centers in south Texas. Six migrant criminal cases tossed amid defense claims Operation Lone Star discriminates against men A judge has dismissed criminal cases against six migrants arrested under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star initiative, siding with defense attorneys who argued the state is engaging in “sex discrimination” by bringing charges only against men who cross the border, not women or children. When he launched the initiative last year, Abbott did not appear to specify that only adult men would be detained and prosecuted. But state officials, in court filings and during a hearing last week in Lopez's court, have argued that they lack the resources to detain and prosecute both men and women under Operation Lone Star. The planned Great Wolf Lodge Gulf Coast Texas is a $200 million project in Webster that will include an indoor water park and a hotel.Great Wolf Lodge breaks ground on $200M Webster location with 95,000-square-foot indoor water park, hotel Great Wolf Resorts Inc. announced its move into Houston with a ground-breaking ceremony for Great Wolf Lodge Gulf Coast Texas, a new entertainment and lodging complex in Webster that will include a 95,000-square-foot indoor water park.Read the full story here. Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker Jr. greets New York Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza for the lineup exchange before the start of the first inning of game one of a double header MLB baseball game at Minute Maid Park on Thursday, July 21, 2022 in Houston.With another American League West title secured, Astros fans are already looking ahead to possible showdowns with the Yankees in the American League Championship Series and the Dodgers in the World Series.A bicyclist rides in a bike lane on Austin Street downtown on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 in Houston.According to a Chronicle analysis of TxDOT roadway crash data, 103 bicyclists have died on Harris County roads since 2017. Aside from a slight dip in 2018, that annual toll has increased each year. Bike Houston's Executive Director Joe Cutrufo says Houston has been slowly making the city more bike-friendly in recent years, but there's still a long way to go. Fort Bend County Judge KP George talks tells reporters at a Aug. 3, 2021 news conference in Richmond that the COVID-19 risk level has been increased for the county.Fort Bend county judge calls out racist attacks that are flooding his office Fort Bend County Judge KP George’s office confirmed he has received more than 100 racist and xenophobic emails, Facebook comments and other notes over the past few weeks attacking his identity as a South Asian immigrant. George, who is up for reelection on Nov. 8, said the attacks started when he was elected but he increased his security when hate speech escalated during the pandemic. “When you talk to people and learn more about the people who don’t look like you, you come to find out you have more in common than the differences," George said.Police instruct supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community that had gathered in front of First Christian Church, to move off a median and back to the south side of Morton Ranch Road, opposite of over 100 protesters, including Proud Boys, Aryan Freedom Network and various church groups who had gathered on the north side of the street to protest a “Drag Bingo” event being held at the church on Saturday, September 24, 2022 in Katy, TX.For hours, over 100 protesters and counter-protesters hurled insults and held guns at a drag bingo event at First Christian Church in Katy. The church is openly accepting of the LGBTQ+ community and hosted the bingo game to raise money for a program that provides clothes for youth who are transitioning genders or exploring how to express their gender.
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