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Anna Ta

Anna Ta is a reporting fellow covering local and regional news at the Houston Press in partnership with the Google News Initiative. Born and raised in Houston, she's always in search of the strongest and sweetest Vietnamese coffee humanly possible.

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Already Dealing With the Halloween Jump in COVID Cases, Healthcare Workers Brace for Thanksgiving

By Anna Ta
Nov 26, 2020

The very thing that made the holidays great before COVID is striking fear into the heart of the healthcare system – families gathering and being merry. There’s plenty of reason to suspect that the holidays will send cases skyrocketing. Two weeks after Halloween, the greater Houston area saw an uptick...
Follow the Turkeys: Retailers Face Unexpected Holiday Meat Demand and Supply Shortages

By Anna Ta
Nov 18, 2020

As COVID cases continue to spike, Harris County’s health officials have been stressing the dangers of the impending holiday celebrations that would bring together families and their germs. One way to know whether Houstonians are following health guidelines this Thanksgiving? Follow the turkeys. Turkey retailers are seeing lifts and drops...
During COVID, Houston’s Influencers Use TikTok to Connect to a Local Audience

By Anna Ta
Nov 13, 2020

To the uninitiated, TikTok is a platform for teens to share 30 second dance routines and memes. To the addicted, well, it depends. Are you on DIY TikTok? Straight TikTok? Or maybe your algorithm has stumbled onto Kameron Whiteside’s videos and you’ve found Houston real estate TikTok. Whiteside, as fitting...
Seeing Unicorns: Meet the Black Veterinarians Beating Down the Barriers in Houston

By Anna Ta
Nov 9, 2020

A few years ago, Dr. Aziza Glass was getting the cold shoulder from her professors — most of them white — at veterinary school, avoiding eye contact with her almost all-white classmates, and feeling the pressure of being one of the only people of color in the room. “It was such...
Harris County Democrats Do Well in Down Ballot Races

By Anna Ta
Nov 3, 2020

Whatever happens in the presidential race, Harris County’s Democrats needn’t have worried about voters paying attention to the down ballot spots. Even without straight-ticket voting, turnout for local down ballot races still exceeded 1.3 million, with Democrats winning several races.