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Brace Yourself: Bad Nurses Week Gifts Are Coming

By Jef Rouner

May 6, 2022

Nurses Week starts today. Yes, on Friday. It’s always weird and wonky because the last day, May 12, is always supposed to be Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Also, it’s a handy reminded that nurses work long, often thankless hours on weekends and holidays. To show their appreciation, lots of hospital management...

Scarface supports his son Chris Jordan as he accepts a donation from Adam Ross for the Chris Jordan Quality of Life Foundation.

Chris Jordan Donates a Kidney to His Dad Scarface and Starts a Foundation With Help From The Suit Boss

By DeVaughn Douglas

Mar 31, 2022

“Hey Brad! Let’s try this one,” exclaims Adam Ross, as he walks across the room with a tie in his outstretched hand. As Brad takes the tie and makes a few more adjustments, Ross watches on and directs the photographer to snap another set of pictures. As he looks, Ross speaks...

Pictured: the neoliberal technocracy in action, apparently.

Opinion: The Disturbing Face of Left-Wing Anti-Vaccination Adherents

By Jef Rouner

Jan 27, 2022

It’s an inarguable fact that the majority of American anti-vaccination sentiments during the age of COVID tend to fall along the right wing of the political spectrum. Red states have fewer vaccinated people than blue states, prominent right wing media figures like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are responsible for...

Rep. Dan Crenshaw and former President Donald Trump at a Turning Point USA event in 2019.

Dan Crenshaw Wants a Law to Exempt Healthcare Workers From Vaccine Mandates

By Jef Rouner

Jan 26, 2022

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on vaccine mandates, Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX 2) is pushing a bill that would exempt healthcare workers from having to be inoculated against COVID-19 by federal mandate. “Just last week over there at the Supreme Court they voted down the OSHA...

The Miso Superfood Salad at Verdine makes us feel healthy just looking at it.

Healthy Houston: Eating Right in 2022

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Jan 11, 2022

With the continuing pandemic and new Omicron variant, there has never been a more important time for Americans to eat healthier and more thoughtfully. For some, resolutions have been made to lose weight. Others may be determined to eat less meat or no meat at all for ethical, health or...

Christmas Colors Are Red and Green But Christmas 2021 Was a Bit Blue

By Margaret Downing

Dec 28, 2021

Last week, the night before two Texas friends of mine were all set to fly out to the Pacific Northwest visit their children and grandchildren for Christmas, they got the dreaded call. Despite being fully vaccinated, a son-in-law and grandson had just tested positive for COVID. The next day their...

Houston's March for Women's Rights in October

U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Challenge to Texas Abortion Law Can Continue, But Doesn't Shut Law Down

By Margaret Downing

Dec 10, 2021

In a partial and very narrow victory for opponents of S.B. 8, the new Texas abortion law that essentially shreds Roe v. Wade protections by banning abortions after the six week mark, the U. S. Supreme Court Friday voted 8-1 to allow abortion providers to continue to challenge the new...

Will we be seeing a resumption of almost daily city of Houston press conferences with the mayor?

Houston Health Department Detects Omicron in City's Wastewater

By Margaret Downing

Dec 7, 2021

Late Monday, the Houston Health Department announced wastewater samples showed the presence of Omicron at eight of the city's 39 wastewater treatment plants. While no case of the new COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in any person here yet, the detection indicates that it is, in fact, here. Little is...

Why stop at wombs when there are so many lives to save?

Opinion: If Roe Falls, Make Organ Donation Mandatory

By Jef Rouner

Dec 6, 2021

Overcome with dread as I am that the Supreme Court will strike down reproductive health protections next year when they rule on the Mississippi abortion case which bans abortion before viability, I am trying to find an optimistic spin on the matter. Here’s one: it’s time for Texas to make...

The Women's March in Houston in October.

Technicality That Enabled the Texas Abortion Ban May Trip it Up Before U.S. Supreme Court

By Margaret Downing

Nov 2, 2021

It is more than a little ironic that the technical loophole the Texas conservative officials used to shut down the federally-guaranteed right to abortion in our state may be upended by another technicality. And by conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, no less. Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments...

Common Bond's Seafood Bouillabaisse is on the new dinner menu and it's a beauty.

Openings and Closings: Common Bond Brasserie Downtown, Original ChopShop Uptown

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Oct 15, 2021

Common Bond Brasserie & Bakery, 800 Capitol, opened September 28 for breakfast and lunch and began its dinner service October 5. This is the flagship location for Common Bond's new concept which combines its popular bakery with a more sophisticated full-service dining restaurant that leans decidedly French with Coq au...

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says the county's $100 vaccine incentive lead around 30,000 residents to get inoculated.

COVID Metrics Improve Across Texas As U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Pass Grim Milestone

By Schaefer Edwards

Oct 5, 2021

The United States finally hit the tragic milestone of over 700,000 COVID-19 fatalities over the weekend, solidifying the coronavirus pandemic as the most deadly pandemic in the history of our country. But thankfully, key COVID-19 metrics across the country, Texas and in the greater Houston area continue to trend downward...

Pro-choice protesters gathered in Austin in May after the Legislature passed its "heartbeat" abortion bill.

Pro-Choice Groups Beg U.S. Supreme Court To Hurry Up And Rule On Texas Abortion Ban

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 24, 2021

Sick of being forced by Texas’ controversial “heartbeat bill” to tell Texans seeking abortions they’ll have to venture hundreds of miles out of state to have their pregnancies terminated, Texas abortion providers and pro-choice groups filed an emergency request Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to bypass the normal appeals...

As experts continue to urge vaccinations, more and more Texans are dying of COVID-19 due to the Delta surge.

Texas COVID Deaths Surge While Hospitalizations Fall As Delta Wave Continues

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 24, 2021

As public health experts predicted all along, the quick rise in Texas COVID-19 cases from the summer’s Delta surge has finally been followed by a dramatic uptick in deaths from the virus. While there are now thousands fewer Texas hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients than there were a few...

Pro-choice activists have been protesting Texas' Senate Bill 8, which has halted most in-state abortions since September 1.

Lawsuits Follow After Texas Doctor Breaks Abortion Law, Just Not From Who You'd Expect

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 22, 2021

In the days since San Antonio Dr. Alan Braid’s announcement in the Washington Post that he’d performed an illegal abortion flouting Texas’ controversial “heartbeat bill,” the first two lawsuits filed against him came from pro-choice advocates hoping to block the law, not anti-abortion activists. Meanwhile, Texas’ most ardent abortion foes...

COVID-19 vaccines for young children could some sooner than booster shots for the rest of us.

Trial Shows Pfizer Vaccine Safe For Kids As FDA Panel Breaks With Biden On Booster Plan

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 20, 2021

Millions of parents with young kids breathed a collective sigh of relief across the United States Monday morning, as Pfizer announced its trial of its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine found the shots were safe and effective for children ages five to 11. While full authorization for Pfizer’s vaccine in kids five...

Thousands of Houston area residents have ignored health experts' guidance on second vaccine doses.

Over 14,000 Harris County Residents Are Overdue For Second Vaccine Dose

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 17, 2021

More than 14,000 people in Harris County are overdue for getting their crucial second COVID-19 vaccine shot, despite public health officials’ attempts to persuade folks who’ve received their first shot of a two-dose coronavirus vaccine how important shot number two is in granting maximum coronavirus protection. Those under-vaccinated residents coupled...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department has upped the ante in its attempt to block Texas' latest abortion ban.

DOJ Asks Judge To Block Texas' Abortion Law, While Women Seeking Abortions Are Driven Out of State

By Schaefer Edwards

Sep 15, 2021

One sexual assault victim had to travel to Oklahoma to get the abortion now forbidden to her by the new draconian Texas abortion law that went into effect September 1. “I provided an abortion to [a] woman from Texas who had been raped and could not get an abortion in...

(Some) Fear and (a Little) Loathing at the Texans Game

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Sep 13, 2021

I was wide awake at 4 in the morning on game day, a full hour before my alarm was set to buzz me into motion toward NRG Stadium, home of the Houston Texans. Over the past few seasons, many questions have circled the local NFL team. But, lying in bed...

Trent Patterson, Aaron Lyons and Brandi Key team together for a new, fresh concept.

Openings and Closings: Daily Gather This Fall, Turkey Leg Hut UH

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Sep 10, 2021

Daily Gather, 800 Sorella Court, is shooting to open this fall at CityCentre. The upscale casual restaurant has some culinary notables bringing it to fruition. Owner and CEO Aaron Lyons, who has opened six Dish Society locations in the Houston area since 2014, has been eyeing the space at CityCentre...

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