Joy Sewing
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Houston Chronicle columnist. Champion for the underdog and underserved. Trying to live joyfully in Texas.
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February 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.
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Texas businesses on high alert over Trump's renewed tariff threat against Mexico
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Texas businesses on high alert over Trump tariff threat to Mexico
The stakes are particularly high for Texas and other border states, where trade with Mexico is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Texas businesses on high alert over Trump's renewed tariff threat against Mexico
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For months, I've been talking with Univ. of Missouri journalism students about their media tour to Houston. Today, I finally met the 15 students who visited the Houston Chronicle to learn about what we do, how we do it and why we love it. Smart, engaging group. #mizzou
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
For months, I've been talking with Univ. of Missouri journalism students about their media tour to Houston. Today, I finally met the 15 students who visited the Houston Chronicle to learn about what we do, how we do it and why we love it. Smart, engaging group. #mizzou
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Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert.
One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone.
w/ Capitol News Illinois
One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone.
w/ Capitol News Illinois
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear. And, as one couple learned, there’s almost no help for those building a…
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January 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert.
One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone.
w/ Capitol News Illinois
One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone.
w/ Capitol News Illinois
I'm so close to putting up a barbed wire fence with a shock feature.
A porch pirate sabotaged my self-care. The thief, however, left behind a lesson
Someone stole the Amazon packages I ordered to kick off my self-care in the new year. I have a message for them and a lesson for you.
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January 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm so close to putting up a barbed wire fence with a shock feature.
Last night's 9th annual Year of Joy Holiday Ice Skating Party at Discovery Green:
200 children
50 volunteers
3 ice-skating performers
1 ballerina
Miss Houston Pageant winners
A Congressional proclamation
Fox 26 TV host as emcee
Santa Claus
Too many smiles to count. #yearofjoy
200 children
50 volunteers
3 ice-skating performers
1 ballerina
Miss Houston Pageant winners
A Congressional proclamation
Fox 26 TV host as emcee
Santa Claus
Too many smiles to count. #yearofjoy
December 12, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Last night's 9th annual Year of Joy Holiday Ice Skating Party at Discovery Green:
200 children
50 volunteers
3 ice-skating performers
1 ballerina
Miss Houston Pageant winners
A Congressional proclamation
Fox 26 TV host as emcee
Santa Claus
Too many smiles to count. #yearofjoy
200 children
50 volunteers
3 ice-skating performers
1 ballerina
Miss Houston Pageant winners
A Congressional proclamation
Fox 26 TV host as emcee
Santa Claus
Too many smiles to count. #yearofjoy
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Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, who emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults, died Dec. 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia.
She was 81.
She was 81.
Nikki Giovanni, who explored Black life in verse, dies at 81
A fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s, she later honed a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, who emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults, died Dec. 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia.
She was 81.
She was 81.
My question: Define 'sexually explicit.'
New bill would let Texas SBOE ban 'sexually explicit' books from public schools
Parents could petition the Texas State Board of Education to review books. Those found to be 'sexually explicit' would be removed from shelves.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:47 AM
My question: Define 'sexually explicit.'
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Texas SBOE approves lesson plans with Bible teachings
The optional curriculum is part of an effort to infuse Christian theology into public education.
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November 22, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Sidewalk School, a humanitarian nonprofit offers classes several days a week to migrant children in Reynosa and nearby Matamoros, sister city to Brownsville. The kids aren’t enrolled in local public schools, so the nonprofit teaches them reading, math, and art.
She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas.
“When I see a mom with her child trying to cross, it's like I see myself in her.”
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November 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Sidewalk School, a humanitarian nonprofit offers classes several days a week to migrant children in Reynosa and nearby Matamoros, sister city to Brownsville. The kids aren’t enrolled in local public schools, so the nonprofit teaches them reading, math, and art.
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Los Angeles officials on Tuesday moved to cement the city and its schools as sanctuaries for immigrants and LGBTQ youth as the city positions itself to push back strongly against President-elect Donald Trump’s platforms on immigration and gender.
Los Angeles leaders move to protect immigrants and LGBTQ students in advance of Trump’s return to the White House | CNN
Los Angeles officials voted Tuesday to approve policies that would establish the city and its schools as a sanctuary for immigrants and LGBTQ youth as the city braces for the incoming Trump administra...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Los Angeles officials on Tuesday moved to cement the city and its schools as sanctuaries for immigrants and LGBTQ youth as the city positions itself to push back strongly against President-elect Donald Trump’s platforms on immigration and gender.
My second time moderating a talk with Dr. Ruth Simmons about her memoir “Up Home.” Today, it was for the First Ladies Book Club of the Barbara BushHouston Literacy Foundation. Dr. Simmons’ life story should inspire anyone to get busy living. She's had a remarkable journey.
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
My second time moderating a talk with Dr. Ruth Simmons about her memoir “Up Home.” Today, it was for the First Ladies Book Club of the Barbara BushHouston Literacy Foundation. Dr. Simmons’ life story should inspire anyone to get busy living. She's had a remarkable journey.
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Telehealth providers say requests for the pills have spiked since the election. Patients and doctors worry what a Trump presidency could mean for medical abortion and emergency contraception.
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
Telehealth providers say requests for the pills have spiked since the election. Patients and doctors worry what a Trump presidency could mean for medical abortion and emergency contraception.
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November 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Telehealth providers say requests for the pills have spiked since the election. Patients and doctors worry what a Trump presidency could mean for medical abortion and emergency contraception.
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Sewing: Trump's threats to end DACA have 90,000 Texas Dreamers on edge
It's important to mention that Dreamers, permitted to stay in the U.S. since 2012, pay taxes but they can't vote. Trump says he's determined to end the program.
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November 14, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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