During President Trump’s first term in the White House, Nadene Casteel’s students at an elementary school near Houston lamented that his border wall, as they […]
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Texas Governor Sets November Election to Fill Heavily Democratic House Seat
An election to fill a vacant House seat in a heavily Democratic district in Texas will take place in November, Gov. Greg Abbott said on […]
Boston Faces Identity Crisis Amid Trump’s Cuts to University and Research Funding
For generations, students and researchers from around the world have flocked to Boston, drawn not just to a college or university but to a region […]
Rising Democratic Star Enters Race to Fill Houston House Seat
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee said Monday he was running for the vacant U.S. House seat of Representative Sylvester Turner, who died this month, hoping […]
Sylvester Turner, Congressman and Former Houston Mayor, Dies at 70
Sylvester Turner, a former mayor of Houston who was sworn in as a U.S. representative in January, died on Wednesday in Washington. He was 70 […]
Is Micromanaging Teachers a Recipe for School Success?
The Houston public school classroom might have looked like any other, if not for an unusual feature on the whiteboard: A countdown timer. The teacher […]
Tracing the New Orleans Attacker’s Secret Radicalization
His electric truck was already headed toward New Orleans, traveling from his trailer home outside Houston and past the twinkling oil refineries to the east, […]