This past weekend, I had to the opportunity (with several hundred others) to watch a major building in Houston be turned to dust.
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Of newspapers, storms and whistleblowers
August 26, 2011
What a difference a decade makes.
Restoring history amidst a sea of change
June 26, 2011
I had the opportunity this weekend to visit Freedmen’s Town, the historic black community formed by newly freed slaves on the outskirts of downtown Houston, in the Fourth Ward.
A cab ride in the Crescent City
February 11, 2011
I hadn’t been in New Orleans since 2002, three years before Hurricane Katrina swept through and wrought havoc. Though I have several relatives in South Louisiana, most of my experiences here were when I was a young kid. My knowledge of the storm and its aftermath was from afar, from news accounts and my own reporting on refugees who arrived in the Houston area.

January 11, 2012
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