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This is good news for Houston, and Black history stories across the globe. Learn about it in my latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social houstonlanding.org/national-geo...
National Geographic Society taps Houston archaeologist to lead Black heritage trees project
Alicia Odewale, University of Houston professor, will spearhead a two-year project that chronicles Black heritage and resilience by mapping trees.
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March 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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A great way to close out #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth:
I’ll be live on @houstonmatters.bsky.social around 9:15 to talk about my latest in the @houstonlanding.bsky.social that details out my journey trying to get an endometriosis diagnosis.
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I’ll be live on @houstonmatters.bsky.social around 9:15 to talk about my latest in the @houstonlanding.bsky.social that details out my journey trying to get an endometriosis diagnosis.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A great way to close out #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth:
I’ll be live on @houstonmatters.bsky.social around 9:15 to talk about my latest in the @houstonlanding.bsky.social that details out my journey trying to get an endometriosis diagnosis.
Tune in!
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I’ll be live on @houstonmatters.bsky.social around 9:15 to talk about my latest in the @houstonlanding.bsky.social that details out my journey trying to get an endometriosis diagnosis.
Tune in!
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What's better than coming back to work after several months away? Spending your first few weeks back hanging at local bookstores, that's what.
My latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social, out this morning, is a good news piece for all you bookworms out there:
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My latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social, out this morning, is a good news piece for all you bookworms out there:
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Houston is experiencing a 'reading renaissance' as small bookstores open across the city
Houstonians' desire to shop local and an emphasis on representation have created a perfect market for small bookstores.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What's better than coming back to work after several months away? Spending your first few weeks back hanging at local bookstores, that's what.
My latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social, out this morning, is a good news piece for all you bookworms out there:
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My latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social, out this morning, is a good news piece for all you bookworms out there:
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Conflicts of interest, unmet promises: Public records show Colony Ridge controls a board that collected $13 million in unspent tax dollars and awarded a subsidiary $22.5 million in contracts.
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Colony Ridge pushes conflict of interest boundaries with multimillion-dollar contracts, experts say
Public records reveal that Colony Ridge controls a taxing district that has approved $22.5 million in contracts for one of its subsidiaries.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Conflicts of interest, unmet promises: Public records show Colony Ridge controls a board that collected $13 million in unspent tax dollars and awarded a subsidiary $22.5 million in contracts.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Hey y'all! I'm back from maternity leave and ready to hit the ground running as the @houstonlanding.bsky.social's Senior Storyteller. I've been a Twitter girl for .... ever? but I'm excited to meet any of my sources -- old an new! -- over here if that's where we're playing these days!
March 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey y'all! I'm back from maternity leave and ready to hit the ground running as the @houstonlanding.bsky.social's Senior Storyteller. I've been a Twitter girl for .... ever? but I'm excited to meet any of my sources -- old an new! -- over here if that's where we're playing these days!
Breaking: Houston ISD to propose closing schools in summer 2026 as enrollment declines.
Budget plans published by the district Thursday detailed the timeline for considering closures, but didn’t identify a number of campuses targeted for closure.
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Budget plans published by the district Thursday detailed the timeline for considering closures, but didn’t identify a number of campuses targeted for closure.
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Houston ISD to propose closing schools in summer 2026 as enrollment keeps falling
Houston ISD administrators plan this fall to bring a recommendation for a to-be-determined number of campus closures, arguing they're a necessary response to dramatic enrollment declines.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Breaking: Houston ISD to propose closing schools in summer 2026 as enrollment declines.
Budget plans published by the district Thursday detailed the timeline for considering closures, but didn’t identify a number of campuses targeted for closure.
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Budget plans published by the district Thursday detailed the timeline for considering closures, but didn’t identify a number of campuses targeted for closure.
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Breaking: Aldine ISD board voted on Tuesday to close six schools at the end of the school year. The campuses closing are Stovall, De Santiago, Eckert, Oleson, Raymond and Smith.
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Aldine ISD board votes to close 6 schools amid declining enrollment, budget deficit
School board members said they reluctantly supported the closures as the district faces dwindling enrollment and a growing budget deficit.
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February 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Breaking: Aldine ISD board voted on Tuesday to close six schools at the end of the school year. The campuses closing are Stovall, De Santiago, Eckert, Oleson, Raymond and Smith.
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Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and the legacy of Blacks in the West. If you know me, you know there was no way I was missing this unique offering at @uh.edu Annie Mulligan and I took the first class and here’s how it went in my latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social houstonlanding.org/we-took-univ...
We took University of Houston’s new Beyoncé Cowboy Carter class.🤠 Here’s what we learned
Beyonce’s album sparked national discussion about the exclusion of Black country music artists and was the backdrop to a unique UH course.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and the legacy of Blacks in the West. If you know me, you know there was no way I was missing this unique offering at @uh.edu Annie Mulligan and I took the first class and here’s how it went in my latest for @houstonlanding.bsky.social houstonlanding.org/we-took-univ...
Pasadena ISD’s partnership with San Jacinto College leads as one of the most successful dual-enrollment programs in the state, bringing a free college education to low-income, first-generation high schoolers.
Here’s how the program works.
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Here’s how the program works.
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Hundreds of Pasadena ISD students graduate high school with a college degree. Here’s how.
A region-leading partnership between Pasadena and San Jacinto College is giving high schoolers a head start on college and jobs.
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January 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Pasadena ISD’s partnership with San Jacinto College leads as one of the most successful dual-enrollment programs in the state, bringing a free college education to low-income, first-generation high schoolers.
Here’s how the program works.
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Here’s how the program works.
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Following a major superintendent-led overhaul, more Houston classrooms are being taught by teachers with no prior classroom experience, @houstonlanding.bsky.social reports
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Houston ISD relying more on teachers with no classroom experience
Houston ISD’s share of first-year teachers has doubled since the arrival of Superintendent Mike Miles in mid-2023, district data show.
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December 17, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Following a major superintendent-led overhaul, more Houston classrooms are being taught by teachers with no prior classroom experience, @houstonlanding.bsky.social reports
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Dangers posed by pipelines near Houston roads: Thank you to @craigcohen.bsky.social + @houstonmatters.bsky.social for having me today’s show to talk about our @houstonlanding.bsky.social investigation. Read more here houstonlanding.org/author/ayoung/
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Protecting above-ground pipelines (Dec. 13, 2024) | Houston Public Media
On Friday's show: Houston is home to many above-ground pipelines, like the one in Deer Park a vehicle crashed into causing a fire in September. So, you might be surprised by how limited regulations ar...
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December 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Dangers posed by pipelines near Houston roads: Thank you to @craigcohen.bsky.social + @houstonmatters.bsky.social for having me today’s show to talk about our @houstonlanding.bsky.social investigation. Read more here houstonlanding.org/author/ayoung/
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EXCLUSIVE: Kim Ogg, Harris County's outgoing district attorney, has issued a blanket plea recommendation of life without parole in more than 60 pending capital murder cases, according to internal office communications obtained by @houstonlanding.bsky.social.
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Harris’ outgoing district attorney recommends ‘unprecedented’ plea in capital murder cases
Critics said the ‘blanket recommendation’ of life without parole could be inappropriate in certain cases and confuse victims’ families.
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December 11, 2024 at 9:26 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Kim Ogg, Harris County's outgoing district attorney, has issued a blanket plea recommendation of life without parole in more than 60 pending capital murder cases, according to internal office communications obtained by @houstonlanding.bsky.social.
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When an SUV crashed into a pipeline in Deer Park in September, only a chain link fence stood between the vehicle and the pipeline. The crash caused a fatal explosion, killing the driver and burning nearby homes.
It was far from an isolated event. 🧵https://t.co/L2XKbi9ds3
It was far from an isolated event. 🧵https://t.co/L2XKbi9ds3
December 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
When an SUV crashed into a pipeline in Deer Park in September, only a chain link fence stood between the vehicle and the pipeline. The crash caused a fatal explosion, killing the driver and burning nearby homes.
It was far from an isolated event. 🧵https://t.co/L2XKbi9ds3
It was far from an isolated event. 🧵https://t.co/L2XKbi9ds3
When the second line turned pink on her pregnancy test, 17-year-old J knew she didn’t want to be a mother — but in Texas, there is no legal way for her to terminate her pregnancy. 1/4🧵
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
When the second line turned pink on her pregnancy test, 17-year-old J knew she didn’t want to be a mother — but in Texas, there is no legal way for her to terminate her pregnancy. 1/4🧵
Texas’ restrictive abortion law sent this Houston teen on a cross-country odyssey for help. She isn’t alone: 34,000 women who left Texas in 2023 to get an abortion — a number that has more than doubled since 2019.
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Texas' restrictive abortion law sends Houston teen on cross-country odyssey for help
After a strict ban was imposed in 2021, thousands of women have left Texas to end pregnancies. Houston teen embarked on a 1,500-mile journey to do so.
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December 9, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Texas’ restrictive abortion law sent this Houston teen on a cross-country odyssey for help. She isn’t alone: 34,000 women who left Texas in 2023 to get an abortion — a number that has more than doubled since 2019.
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My colleagues @annacat.bsky.social, @paulcobler.bsky.social & @lexigraceparra.bsky.social did a beautiful job telling the human story behind a narrative that had become fiercely political
After the death of her daughter, Jocelyn, Alexis Nungaray became an unlikely anti-immigration crusader for President-elect Donald Trump and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaigns. But outside of the spotlight, she mourns alone to keep Jocelyn's memory alive.
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‘I don’t want her to be forgotten’: The election is over. Alexis Nungaray’s grief remains.
The death of Alexis Nungaray’s 12-year-old daughter set her mother on a political crusade in her memory, often at the expense of her ability to grieve.
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November 21, 2024 at 6:09 PM
My colleagues @annacat.bsky.social, @paulcobler.bsky.social & @lexigraceparra.bsky.social did a beautiful job telling the human story behind a narrative that had become fiercely political
After the death of her daughter, Jocelyn, Alexis Nungaray became an unlikely anti-immigration crusader for President-elect Donald Trump and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaigns. But outside of the spotlight, she mourns alone to keep Jocelyn's memory alive.
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‘I don’t want her to be forgotten’: The election is over. Alexis Nungaray’s grief remains.
The death of Alexis Nungaray’s 12-year-old daughter set her mother on a political crusade in her memory, often at the expense of her ability to grieve.
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November 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM
After the death of her daughter, Jocelyn, Alexis Nungaray became an unlikely anti-immigration crusader for President-elect Donald Trump and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaigns. But outside of the spotlight, she mourns alone to keep Jocelyn's memory alive.
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NEW: The SUV crash that caused the massive Sept. 16 pipeline explosion and fire near the border of Deer Park and La Porte was not an accident and wasn’t caused by the driver suffering from a medical event, according to top officials from the two cities. houstonlanding.org/deer-park-ma...
Deer Park mayor says deadly pipeline explosion and fire ‘wasn’t an accident’
Deer Park's mayor says the SUV crash that sparked a pipeline explosion was not an accident. Family members believe the driver had a seizure.
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November 20, 2024 at 11:51 PM
NEW: The SUV crash that caused the massive Sept. 16 pipeline explosion and fire near the border of Deer Park and La Porte was not an accident and wasn’t caused by the driver suffering from a medical event, according to top officials from the two cities. houstonlanding.org/deer-park-ma...
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Exclusive: Deer Park mayor says deadly pipeline explosion and fire ‘wasn’t an accident.’
Statements to @Hou_Landing at odds with family's belief that SUV driver suffered seizure before fatal crash.
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Statements to @Hou_Landing at odds with family's belief that SUV driver suffered seizure before fatal crash.
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Deer Park mayor says deadly pipeline explosion and fire ‘wasn’t an accident’
Deer Park's mayor says the SUV crash that sparked a pipeline explosion was not an accident. Family members believe the driver had a seizure.
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November 20, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Exclusive: Deer Park mayor says deadly pipeline explosion and fire ‘wasn’t an accident.’
Statements to @Hou_Landing at odds with family's belief that SUV driver suffered seizure before fatal crash.
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Statements to @Hou_Landing at odds with family's belief that SUV driver suffered seizure before fatal crash.
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November 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Look who has landed on a new platform... Follow our staff with one click to get all your favorite local news for free as always👇🚀
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