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Town hall meeting offers education, guidance on new insurance law ___ Amid lagging enrollment and continuing problems with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, local and federal officials urged Houston residents Saturday to sign up for health insurance under the new law. Hundreds attended a town hall meeting Saturday morning at the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown to learn more about their coverage options under so-called Obamacare, attempt to sign up for insurance plans and receive free health screenings. "We need to know what is best for us and what they can give to us," said Mirna Balderas,...

I see Americans helping Americans. I hear stories and see photos that inspire me! I thank God I live in America.Brett Coomer / Chronicle A paramedic carries a pair of girls away from an Army helicopter after they were airlifted from their flooded home in New Orleans on Tuesday. More Chronicle PHOTOSI just listened to the local D.C. radio news and they played a woman screaming about no showers in the Astrodome. No this, no that, no nothing (I hear different). Then they quoted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich making snide remarks about the progress of relief efforts. Melissa Phillip...

..........“Houston is rising to the call of an unprecedented refugee situation,” White said at a press conference this morning. “People should be asking themselves in this region where they know of a garage or apartment.” Thousands of children displaced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina have been enrolled in schools throughout the Houston area, and government officials were kicking conventioneers out of several centers so the buildings could be turned into shelters. “If it takes someone suing us, then sue — and then explain to the American public,” White said. He estimated that 100,000 evacuees already were in the Houston...