Email Author Todd Spivak

Awards

• 2009 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published February 28, 2008

  "Obama and Me"

• 2009 - Katie Awards, published December 6, 2007

  "Toxic Town"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 6, 2007

  "Toxic Town"

• 2008 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published December 6, 2007

  "Toxic Town"

• 2008 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published July 19, 2007

  "Heads You Lose... Tails You Lose"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "Heads You Lose... Tails You Lose"

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

  "Whose Best Interests?"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published December 6, 2007

  "Toxic Town"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published December 6, 2007

  "Toxic Town"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "Heads You Lose... Tails You Lose"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published June 29, 2006

  "Cut Short"

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 24, 2006

  "Hog Wild"

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2007 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 24, 2006

  "Hog Wild"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published August 24, 2006

  "Hog Wild"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2007 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published March 30, 2006

  "Run Over By Metro"

• 2006 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published November 3, 2005

  "Against All Odds"

• 2006 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published November 3, 2005

  "Against All Odds"

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 15, 2005

  "Overstimulated"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published September 15, 2005

  "Overstimulated"

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2006 Stories by Todd Spivak

• Shorthanded

  published December 7, 2006

  J Carnes felt queasy looking out at the rows and rows of rotting cabbage heads marked by cracked black leaves. The pungent odor -- like boiling... More >>

• Baby Blues

  published September 14, 2006

  Dark blue splotches stained Lisa Collins's newborn son's mouth as if he'd gotten messy with a lollipop. Mom scrubbed Baby clean in the... More >>

• Hog Wild

  published August 24, 2006

  Pickup trucks haul yapping mutts in crowded trailers through the woods in a long, tedious procession, taking an hour to travel seven miles of... More >>

• Cut Short

  published June 29, 2006

  High school senior Pavlos Karnezis was filing into his first-period physics class one morning last November when a friend approached with a... More >>

• In the Pink

  published May 11, 2006

  The wealthy young Kuwaiti woman appeared in Dr. Troy Hailparn's San Antonio office and collapsed in tears. Before she left to study abroad,... More >>

• Bam! Pow!

  published May 4, 2006

  "Party in the seniors' room!" Andrew Franco and his bunkmates got the phone message just after midnight. They left their Holiday Inn hotel... More >>

• Brave New World

  published April 13, 2006

  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. -- Joni Mitchell The scene is like a New Yorker cartoon come to life:... More >>

• Run Over by Metro

  published March 30, 2006

  It was 11:30 p.m., exactly midway through the night shift at the garage, and time for Myesha Taylor Thomas to return to work cleaning buses.... More >>

• Life Interrupted

  published March 30, 2006

  This is a sidebar to this week's feature, "Run Over by... More >>

• These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston

  published March 2, 2006

  The Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions is this area's best public high school. It produces studious, high-achieving,... More >>

• The Also-Rans

  published March 2, 2006

  This article is a sidebar to this week's feature, "These Kids Go to... More >>

• Houston's Best Public High Schools

  published February 23, 2006

  Gaby Fernandez loves her high school, despite the neighborhood surrounding it. The invisible boundaries that demarcate gang turf, the frequent... More >>

• Another Bright Spot

  published February 23, 2006

  "Awesome! Awesome! You're all awesome!" principal Willie Pickens exclaims to a group of girls arriving to school from a dance competition.... More >>

• Shots Fired

  published February 2, 2006

  "Fuck the North Side!" 16-year-old Jesse Jackson Academy student Anthony Bailey yelled from a back window of a parked school bus while flashing... More >>