Email Author Margaret Downing

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 22, 2011

  "Mistaken Identities"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "The Whipping Boy"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published June 3, 2010

  "Homeless High"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published June 4, 2009

  "Let the Record Reflect"

• 2009 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published April 10, 2008

  "Exit Exams"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 8, 2008

  "Mental Anguish"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "Bad Faith"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 31, 2007

  "Killing Fences"

• 2008 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published August 23, 2007

  "Judging Books and Their Covers"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out'

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published May 11, 2006

  "Diary of a Mad Man"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Who Cares?"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published February 17, 2005

  "Mind Reading"

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1999 Stories by Margaret Downing

• Downing

  published December 30, 1999

  About seven years ago the Reverend Joe Samuel Ratliff had a vision. He saw that God wanted him to expand his church's ministry to people with... More >>

• Downing

  published November 25, 1999

  On November 19, 1998, Robert Arthur Pearson interrupted a substance abuse users meeting at a building on Harwin Drive. Police report those in... More >>

• Downing

  published October 28, 1999

  The man spotted his wife through the large glass doors and windows inside the front of the building. Kept locked, the doors open only at a signal... More >>

• Downing

  published September 30, 1999

  It was Saturday night, and Claudio Dominguez's wife wanted to go out to eat. She wanted to go to a restaurant or a taqueria to get some... More >>

• Race Cars

  published September 2, 1999

  One moment Ken Williams was asking the Houston traffic cop if he knew what racial profiling was. The next moment "there were five police officers... More >>

• Downing

  published July 22, 1999

  Stare as long as you want. Lance's face yields no secrets. Nothing in the eyes or smile of this handsome, dark-haired boy says stop, wait a... More >>

• After-School Aftershocks

  published July 1, 1999

  First they brought out the little children. A trio of tiny violinists, hidden from the audience by the sheets of music before them, was followed... More >>

• Bye-bye, Baby, Bye-bye

  published June 24, 1999

  It's good-night, Irene for another day care in the Texas Medical Center quadrant of the universe. Hermann Hospital's Tag Along Kids Day Care... More >>

• Family Unfriendly

  published June 3, 1999

  Well, the Hermann Hospital Tag Along Kids Day Care Center is history now -- abruptly shut down last week -- and hospital officials just don't want... More >>

• School Outings

  published May 20, 1999

  Walt Wingo is a 39-year-old man with a bright smile, a black cowboy hat and an IQ less than his age. He has lived in state institutions for the... More >>

• Left Standing at the Church Door

  published April 29, 1999

  Go to Bering Memorial United Methodist Church and prepare to be greeted with open arms. Join in the worship. Pray, sing, listen to the sermon, go... More >>

• Cutting Class

  published April 15, 1999

  Herbert Karpicke is a very wary man these days. The principal carefully, cautiously and finally welcomed the Houston Press to his school office... More >>