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Suffering for Her Art: Living Life With 26-Inch Fingernails

By Leif Reigstad
Nov 8, 2016

How do you wipe your butt? That’s the first question everyone has for Yani Williams when they see her for the first time. She’s a strange sight, that’s for sure, but it’s what precedes her appearance as she descends the stairs in her modest north Houston apartment one sweltering day...
Kush City: Houston has Become a Major Hub for the Latest Drug of Choice

By Leif Reigstad
Aug 16, 2016

Sypho Turner is only 56 years old, but when he sits on the trash-strewn pavement below the Southwest Freeway overpass near the Wheeler Metro Station in Midtown, the low light deepens his cracked skin, turns his toothless smile into a black pit and makes his battered face look like a...
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office Doesn’t Always Take Care of Its Own

By Leif Reigstad
Jul 12, 2016

Donald Robertson was blindsided. He was stopped at a red light on the North Sam Houston Parkway East frontage road on June 24, 2006, his patrol car next to a big white van sitting in the inside lane. The light turned green. As Robertson entered the intersection, a blue 2006...
Donald Trump Met By Protesters At River Oaks Fundraiser

By Leif Reigstad
Jun 17, 2016

About 150 protesters lined up across the street from attorney Tony Buzbee's River Oaks mansion Friday evening, sweating in the sweltering heat index—which topped 100 degrees—and watched as a cavalcade of Donald Trump's donors rolled down River Oaks Boulevard and into Buzbee's police-protected compound in their air-conditioned luxury cars to...
Houston City Councilman Fires "Community Outreach" Director Who Ranted Against Islam

By Leif Reigstad
Jun 16, 2016

Almost a month after he was caught on video ranting against Islam at a meeting for the Harris County GOP Precinct 415, Trebor Gordon was fired from his position on the staff of at-large Houston city councilman Mike Knox. Gordon made national news after the video went viral, showing him...

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