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Already Dealing With the Halloween Jump in COVID Cases, Healthcare Workers Brace for Thanksgiving

Anna Ta — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:30:00 +0000

The very thing that made the holidays great before COVID is striking fear into the heart of the healthcare system – families gathering and being merry. There’s plenty of reason to suspect that the holidays will send cases skyrocketing. Two weeks after ...

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Follow the Turkeys: Retailers Face Unexpected Holiday Meat Demand and Supply Shortages

Anna Ta — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:00:00 +0000

As COVID cases continue to spike, Harris County’s health officials have been stressing the dangers of the impending holiday celebrations that would bring together families and their germs. One way to know whether Houstonians are following health guidel...

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During COVID, Houston’s Influencers Use TikTok to Connect to a Local Audience

Anna Ta — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:30:00 +0000

To the uninitiated, TikTok is a platform for teens to share 30 second dance routines and memes. To the addicted, well, it depends. Are you on DIY TikTok? Straight TikTok? Or maybe your algorithm has stumbled onto Kameron Whiteside’s videos and you’ve f...

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Seeing Unicorns: Meet the Black Veterinarians Beating Down the Barriers in Houston

Anna Ta — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

A few years ago, Dr. Aziza Glass was getting the cold shoulder from her professors — most of them white — at veterinary school, avoiding eye contact with her almost all-white classmates, and feeling the pressure of being one of the only people of ...

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Early Returns in Down Ballot Races Show Democrats Leading

Anna Ta — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 04:12:00 +0000

As early voting results came in it looked like Harris County’s Democrats needn’t have worried so much. Even without straight-ticket voting, turnout for local down ballot races still exceeded 1.3 million, with Democrats largely taking the lead in those ...

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Harris County Democrats Do Well in Down Ballot Races

Anna Ta — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 04:12:00 +0000

Whatever happens in the presidential race, Harris County’s Democrats needn’t have worried about voters paying attention to the down ballot spots. Even without straight-ticket voting, turnout for local down ballot races still exceeded 1.3 million, with ...

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Political Infighting Doesn’t Spare Harris County’s Asian American Community Even as Its Voter Turnout Doubles

Anna Ta — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:30:00 +0000

“I am Vietnamese-American and I support VP Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris. I'm sticking my neck out by doing this and I fully expect my family to react badly to this.” That’s how Victor Nguyen began his Facebook post announcing his support for Biden’...

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Just Say No to Drugs (and Yes To Positive Police Relations): DARE Returns

Anna Ta — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Whether or not DARE’s return to Houston Independent School District in January will successfully keep kids away from drugs remains to be seen, but one thing it will certainly do — what the district and its police department are intending it to do — is ...

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Brave New World: Training to be a Doctor in the Age of COVID-19

Anna Ta — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Baylor Med student David Vien is working in an emergency room in Houston’s Texas Medical Center. It’s March 2020 and across the country from New York City to Seattle, the threat of COVID-19 is finally becoming real to millions of Americans. The Houston...

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Lawsuits Abound as Governor, Voting Rights Groups Spar Over Election Integrity

Anna Ta — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000

In the last few months, the volunteer organization Powered by People founded by Beto O'Rourke, has made 4.1 million calls and registered nearly 80,000 voters. So it's not surprising that O'Rourke and Democratic leaders in Texas were not happy with...

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Three Killed, One Injured in Building Collapse of Soon-to-be Marathon Oil HQ

Anna Ta — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:26:00 +0000

The construction site of the new Marathon Oil headquarters in Memorial partially collapsed early Monday afternoon, killing three construction workers and injuring one, according to the Houston Fire Department. All 240 construction workers are believed ...

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Houston Food Banks Battle Skyrocketing Food Insecurity While Texas Slashes Budgets

Anna Ta — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Local food banks have found new ways to meet increased food insecurity needs during the pandemic, even as Texas has cut a food bank grant almost in half. Food insecurity has more than doubled in Southeast Texas since March, according to Reginald Young,...

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“This is Bad Policy”: Trump Administration Proposes Restrictions for International Students – Again

Anna Ta — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The University of Houston and Rice University, which both enroll thousands of international students each year, are assessing the potential impacts of the Trump administration proposal to impose narrow time limits on international student visas. Dr. Ad...

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With Barely a Break For a Tropical Storm, Rice Students Continue to Protest Willy’s Statue

Anna Ta — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:00:00 +0000

As Tropical Storm Beta approached Houston, a handful of Rice University student protestors weathered the rain outside in the school’s main quad, huddled under umbrellas and by the towering statue of the university’s founder, William Marsh Rice. While t...

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