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A Reporter’s Religious Quest in Houston Suburbia

At a Hindu temple hidden in Pearland, I found lessons about community, womanhood, and alienation.

Texas Observer

“Our girls are still dead”: Camp Mystic parents pushed for laws to protect kids at camp. But their pain remains.

Two dads helped lead Camp Mystic parents to advocate for new camp rules in the Texas Legislature. What they wanted most was to have their daughters back.

The Texas Tribune

String of law enforcement suicides rattles first responders and exposes gaps in state support

Four people tied to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office committed suicide recently, calling attention to ongoing mental health struggles among law enforcement.

The Texas Tribune

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Obstacles slow Texas’ effort to improve conditions at substance abuse recovery homes

A new law was meant to uphold standards at homes where substance abusers are trying to rebuild their lives. But compliance is proving difficult.

The Texas Tribune

2024: The year in photos

A look at some of the best photos from the stories we published over the last year.

The Texas Tribune

Texas’ 90,000 DACA recipients can sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage — for now

Those enrolled in the federal program shielding them from deportation can enroll through Jan. 15, but a lawsuit and Trump’s anti-immigration stance threaten to eliminate eligibility.

The Texas Tribune

How we assisted Houston residents in monitoring air quality and reporting pollution

After identifying flaws in the state’s air monitoring, the Tribune hosted workshops to inform Houston Ship Channel communities.

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When Texas jail standards push inmates to lockups in other states, oversight doesn’t follow

Jaleen Anderson’s mom is on a quest for details about her son’s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial.

The Texas Tribune

Texas teachers stand behind Kamala Harris after years of feeling targeted, neglected by Republicans

At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.

The Texas Tribune

The government wants to buy their flood-prone homes. But these Texans aren’t moving.

In Harris County, the flood control district wants to buy properties along the San Jacinto River that have flooded repeatedly. Some residents aren’t leaving.

The Texas Tribune

How do you get siblings to be nice to each other? Latino families have an answer

Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents across many cultures teach their children to build deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings.

WEKU

Support for Houston ISD’s Spanish speakers has dwindled under state-appointed leader, parents say

For one reading class, Superintendent Mike Miles said instruction would focus on English, even if it meant risking state funding for dual-language programs. Parents say it goes further than that, adding that their kids are receiving no assistance in Spanish at all.

The Texas Tribune

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.

WEKU

Twenty years after a breakthrough Texas case launched a new era of gay rights, trans people are still in the fight

The U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for major civil rights victories for queer Americans in the 2003 decision that decriminalized homosexuality. But progress for LGBTQ+ people has been uneven.

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‘They forced me to carry my baby to the end’: women of color on being denied abortion

Anya Cook and Samantha Casiano were forced to navigate pregnancies with complications in post-Roe America

WEKU

Photos: A close-up look at Ukraine grain export inspections

At the heart of the Ukraine grain export deal is a complex inspection process involving Turkey and the U.N. NPR recently joined a team of inspectors aboard a ship carrying grain in the Marmara sea.

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