Four or five times a week, Lakisha Collins and her 4-year-old son Benji set out on a trip to the new H-E-B MacGregor Market. The errand takes them at least two hours — often, three. It’s not that they live far. Collins resides inside the loop, near the beating heart of the fourth largest city […]
Maggie Gordon / Columnist
Maggie Gordon is a columnist who has worked at newspapers across the country, including the Stamford Advocate and the Houston Chronicle. She has covered everything from the hedge fund industry and education to craft beer and alligator hunting. No matter the topic, Maggie’s favorite stories combine quirky characters, adventure and humanity. Bonus points if she can find a love story. Maggie grew up on a cow farm in upstate New York, and graduated from nearby Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. These days you can find her at her home in Houston’s East End – or on Twitter.
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‘Twas the Night Before Rodeo: A Very Houston Poem
‘Twas the night before Rodeo, when all throughout Houston Not a cowboy was rustling, not a lasso was loopin’; The boots were all lined up next to Wranglers and buckles, (And medical tape, for the bull riders’ knuckles); MagEGordon · ‘Twas The Night Before Rodeo: A Very Houston Poem MagEGordon · ‘Twas The Night Before […]
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Jumping off course: In Houston’s suburbs, golf carts are king.
Jane Beene was walking her dog, Bojangles, when a neighbor cruising by in a golf cart with her children stopped her. “Can we pet your dog?” the neighbor asked. Bojangles loved when kids came up for a pet. So as he basked in canine bliss, Beene and her neighbor chatted. “I love your golf cart,” […]
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EGGONOMICS: Rising egg prices bring uncertainty to small family farm
SANTA FE – Bernadette Clements is what her parents call a “Chicken Whisperer.” The youngest of five siblings responsible for running Clements Family Farm in Santa Fe, 11-year-old Bernadette can nurse any chicken back to health, no matter how close it’s pecking to death’s door. And keeping chickens alive isn’t always easy. Here in Texas, […]
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Hospitals are supposed to make us healthier. But their carbon footprints are doing the opposite.
Hospitals should never harm patients from care that is intended to help them. That’s the definition of patient safety. But a growing body of research shows that the very way hospitals operate is causing preventable harm to patients every day. Globally, 5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to health care, and in […]
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A love letter to Houston. (And turtle racing.)
It all started with turtle racing. I’d been living in Houston for four days when a friend of a friend emailed me a pre-packaged list of things to do across the city. My eyes stopped scanning when I landed on Thursday night turtle races at Little Woodrow’s in Midtown. Surely this was too strange to […]