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Letters from the Editor

Houston Landing announces date for launch of full website for local news
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Mizanur Rahman leads a presentation in a boardroom.
Our community advisory panel will help us meet our mission. Would you like to serve?
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A person engages with other people in a meeting.
Our members are vital to our mission. Here’s how we’ll engage and build community for them
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We asked how your community is represented in the news media. Your answers were candid and concerning.
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A woman walks in front of row houses carrying grocery bags.
How columnist Maggie Gordon is covering news in the Houston region, one story at a time
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We asked you what keeps you up at night. The answers were revealing.
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Monique Welch interviews a woman for the Houston Landing.
Monique Welch: How the Houston Landing is covering news about diverse communities
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Reporter works from a newsroom.
News tips power our journalism: Here’s how to contact the Houston Landing newsroom
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Teachers protest at a rally
The Houston Landing ethics policy is a living document. You can help shape it.
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Photographer Marie D. De Jesús takes photos of Iceland's natural scenery.
How compelling photojournalism helps us forge bonds with the community
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Houston Landing diverse communities reporter Monique Welch is seen through the Houston Landing office entrance sign
What makes the Houston Landing different?
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Houston Landing investigative reporter Alex Stuckey during an interview for a video promo before launching.
Texas needs more investigative journalism. The Houston Landing is delivering.
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The Houston Landing team gathers around a conference room table the night before their website launched on Feb. 1, 2023, in Houston.
Introducing the Houston Landing’s new CEO: veteran journalist Peter Bhatia
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Project Row Houses in Houston
The Houston Landing launches: Local news for the greater Houston area
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Articles and Columns

Headquarters building of a school district.
Meet the new governing board members of Houston ISD after the state’s takeover
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Man stands in front of window with a map of Houston behind him
Texas takeover of Houston ISD complete as Mike Miles named superintendent, board replaced
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Man talks in a boardroom.
Read our full hour-long interview with Mike Miles, Houston ISD’s new superintendent
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Person looks out a window to a pile of trash
Maggie Gordon: Houston’s trash pickup is overwhelmed. A monthly trash fee could fix that.
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Tim Carlin, civic engagement reporter for the Houston Landing
Building our mayoral race voter guide one community member at a time
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A child hugs his mother.
Maggie Gordon: What to do if you’re one of the million Texans losing Medicaid starting next week
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Mike Miles
Meet Mike Miles, the ‘very big disruptor’ floated as Houston ISD’s next superintendent
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Students try to cross a busy street
Maggie Gordon: Gulfton students deserve better crosswalks, sidewalks on their dangerous journey to school
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Street sign for a pawn shop
Houston’s optimism at lowest point in decades due to the economy, new Kinder survey finds
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Shell Deer Park Fire
Living in fear: The Shell Deer Park fire seen through the lens of one photographer
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Rowena Ward the replaces flowers on the gravestone belonging to her son, Rory Ward at the cemetery.
Parents of man who died in Harris County Jail sue officials. They’re not the first.
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Families push strollers in the park
Maggie Gordon: How do you measure time in Houston, a city without seasons?
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A group of people works on a house construction
Maggie Gordon: Baytown Habitat for Humanity wants to build more homes – but it needs applicants
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Government officials in a Galveston County commissioners court meeting.
Maggie Gordon: Secrecy around Galveston County health care switch unfair to beneficiaries
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A man chops down reeds.
Houston project will transplant reeds from ancient Iraqi marsh culture to Rice University
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Colorful mural in Houston's Second Ward.
Maggie Gordon: As the East End changes, what do newcomers owe the historic neighborhood?
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Family sets iftar
Maggie Gordon: Pulling up a seat at the table for my first iftar
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People dance at a ballroom in Houston
Oral history: How the Eldorado Ballroom’s rich past inspired its $10 million renovation
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Maggie Gordon: What does Curious George have to do with the Houston Zoo’s sea lions? More than you’d think.
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Bev Edelman sits by a piano looking away.
Maggie Gordon: Houston’s water department overcharged a widow by $6,000. We decided to find out why.
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Charonda Johnson holds a historic brick near historic residential properties in Freedmen's Town.
Freedmen’s Town was the epicenter of Black life in Houston. Can supporters revive it?
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Texas state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst talks to a group of people
Texas could finally collect data on how often jail inmates are denied mental health care
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A train approaches a railroad crossing with the skyline of downtown Houston on the background.
Maggie Gordon: Stopped trains are plaguing Houston. It’s time to make Union Pacific pay.
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Protestors participate in a rally in front of high school with signs
Amid protests, Texas notifies Houston ISD that it plans to oust school board
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Children play around the entrance of a school.
HISD takeover, explained: Answering your questions about the TEA’s controversial move
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Mike Morath poses for a portrait at his office
Our full interview with TEA Commissioner Mike Morath on plans to oust HISD’s elected board
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Leaders cheer in favor of Houston school as TEA takeover looms.
Maggie Gordon: Abbott says ‘we must empower parents.’ So why is Texas stripping their rights in Houston ISD?
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Protestors rallied at Houston ISD headquarters against the potential takeover of the district's school board.
Does Texas law require the ouster of Houston ISD’s school board? It’s more complicated than you might think.
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Maggie Gordon walks the south bank of the Buffalo Bayou Hike and Bike Trail
Maggie Gordon: Two-day walk along Buffalo Bayou East reveals need for community connection
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Mother gives a snack to her son.
Maggie Gordon: This recipe has 12 simple ingredients. Good luck finding them in Houston’s food deserts.
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Illustration of a little girl mutton busting in her dreams the night before the rodeo.
‘Twas the Night Before Rodeo: A Very Houston Poem
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Tracy Curtis, left, rides a golf cart with Golf Cars of Houston Superstore sales consultant Abel Barrera as she shops for one to be used by her family
Jumping off course: In Houston’s suburbs, golf carts are king.
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Teressa Tolon, 24, and her mother, Nakisha Platt, 47, take a walk through the neighborhood where Platt recently purchased a home with the help of the Community Land Trust
Houston wanted to lead the nation in long-term affordable housing. Now it’s backpedaling.
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JohnPaul Clements, 13, Veronica Clements, 14, and Bernadette Clements, 11, three of five siblings responsible for running Clements Family Farm in Santa Fe, carry food for their chickens and farm animals, Jan. 30, 2023, in Santa Fe.
EGGONOMICS: Rising egg prices bring uncertainty to small family farm
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Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo holds a news conference at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, Feb. 9, 2023, in Houston.
Lina Hidalgo pledges funds for jail program, citing investigation by Houston Landing
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Holding a photo of her son Evan Lee, who died in Harris County Jail in 2022, Jacilet Griffin-Lee talks to the media after speaking to members of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
‘We need help!’: Mothers beg Texas jail commission to address deaths in Harris County Jail
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Rowena Ward the replaces flowers on the gravestone belonging to her son, Rory Ward at the cemetery.
Texans with mental illnesses are dying in Houston-area jails. They didn’t need to be there.
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A bag of clothes hangs by the door of a medical hold cell inside the Harris County Joint Processing Center, Jan. 3, 2023, in Houston.
Search our data: 53 inmates with mental concerns died in Houston-area jails over the past decade
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View of solar panels covering the parking lot of the Houston VA hospital campus with the view of the Texas Medical Center on the background.
Hospitals are supposed to make us healthier. But their carbon footprints are doing the opposite.
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Houston Landing columnist Maggie Gordon walks along an abandoned railroad tracks in Houston, Texas
A love letter to Houston. (And turtle racing.)
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