Houston’s Frances “Poppy” Northcutt thinks Roe v Wade reversal and state-led limitations on LGBTQ+ rights could energize women’s empowerment movement.

Mike Snyder / Contributing writer
Mike Snyder is a Houston-based journalist who worked for 40 years as a reporter, editor and columnist at the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at snyderm599@gmail.com.
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Houston project will transplant reeds from ancient Iraqi marsh culture to Rice University
A dozen or so volunteers, sweating on a warm spring morning in southeast Houston, knelt at the base of a long row of tall, spindly plants known as common reeds, or Phragmites Australis. The volunteers cut through the tough stalks with saws or hedge clippers, then arranged the harvested reeds into bundles that another group […]