Carter Sherman
Carter is the Houston Press fellow. A Seattle native, she graduated from Northwestern University and also has written for Elle, Los Angeles magazine and Ms. Magazine.
Latest Stories
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4 years ago | Film and TV
Though it may seem like everything good and worthwhile ended this year – David Bowie and Prince's lives, Mythbusters, maybe American democracy – we actually have to wait till at least 2017 to see how Game of Thrones ends. However, before we can fi...
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4 years ago | Education
It might be easy to imagine that the age of corporal punishment in Texas schools is, at last, at an end. Representative Alma Allen (D-Harris) and Representative Eddie Lucio III (D-Cameron) have both introduced bills this session to ban corporal pu...
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4 years ago | Museums
As the holidays approach, so do the annual family reunions. And even if you have a good relationship with your relatives, spending entire days with them might be a little taxing. If you're hosting the family gathering here in Houston this year, yo...
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4 years ago | Education
In the wake of several high profile police shootings of black men, Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston) filed a bill Wednesday that would require all ninth grade students in Texas to take a course on how to navigate interactions with law enforcement....
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4 years ago | Texas
When the state of Texas announced that a new set of rules will require health care facilities to cremate or bury the fetal remains from abortions and miscarriages, as we've previously reported, state officials likely knew they would face some back...
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4 years ago | Texas
“You are pregnant and want to know everything you can about the options you have. You have a right to know the truth.” Those are the opening lines of A Woman's Right to Know, an informational booklet that Texas abortion providers must pass to wome...
