Photo: Carolyn Van Houten
Life in Transition
Based on more than a year of reporting, a project featuring the stories of transgender San Antonians. The series documents their transitions, fight for rights and legal and medical hurdles.
Part 1: The battle: How a national debate over gender identity permeated the 2017 Texas legislative session, as lawmakers filed two dozen bills advocates decried as discriminatory, including a pair of “bathroom bills.”
Part 2: The mother and daughter: Two generations of trans women learn from each other.
Photo: Kin Man Hui
Three years after son’s death, Redus parents still grieving
Three years after their son was shot dead by a campus police officer, Valerie and Mickey Redus still face painful reminders of their loss.
Photo: Lauren Caruba
La Vernia tries to cope in wake of sexual assault arrests
A small, rural town east of San Antonio grapples with the arrest of 10 high school students for sexual assault, charges that stemmed from an investigation into allegations of hazing among the school’s sports teams.
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Lack of running water makes life even more difficult for Derby residents
For Trinity professor, academics and activism go hand in hand
Former Career Point students struggling to cope
Allegations of misconduct erupt at SASIC
Conservative student group’s fliers defaced at Trinity
Testing continues on Corpus Christi water supply
Participants, runners deal with weather on race day
A three-part serial narrative about a gunman’s attack on a west Houston neighborhood and its harrowing impact on residents. First place winner for Feature Series in the Texas Associated Press of Managing Editors awards, March 2017. Notable narrative in Mayborn Best American Newspaper Narrative contest; will appear in anthology of 2016 newspaper narratives published by UNT Press.
Photo: Michael Ciaglo
Houston dams are old, beat up and a vital line of defense
Maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, Addicks and Barker dams prevent catastrophic flooding in swampy Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. Now they pose a risk to the city they were built to protect.
Harris County Jail considered ‘unsafe and unhealthy’ for inmates, public
By default, the Harris County Jail is one of Houston’s largest medical providers. But records and inmate accounts indicate the sprawling lockup has serious issues when it comes to medical care it is obligated to provide for thousands inmates.
Photo: Jon Shapley
Proposed bail reforms offer support to the ill
Belinda Hernandez, a mother charged with neglect after failing to administer medicine to her son, nearly died after spending 15 months in the Harris County Jail when she was unable to afford bail.
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Family waves patriotism proudly
CPS twice stepped in to help children allegedly killed by mom
Gunman killed after firing at onlookers
HISD seeks to combat chronic absenteeism
Fighting oil well fires propelled Red Adair to celebrity status
Community cries for justice in the stabbing death of 11-year-old
Exotic stag caught at Houston high school
45 gay couples marry in mass Houston wedding
Pasadena man files civil suit after beating by police
Art: Boris Pelcer
For years, Michael Patrick McManus built a web of lies about his military service. His life offers a window into the complicated nature of stolen valor.
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Could Texas Be Among the Next States to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage?
Most of Texas’ Abortion Clinics Closed Overnight
Seclusion Rooms in North Texas Schools Spark Controversy
SBOE, Publishers Talk Textbook Controversy
In-Depth Reporting
- Teaching Troubles: Northwestern’s ties to Teach for America tested as organization faces national criticism (2nd place winner nationally for Enterprise Reporting in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program)
- Schapiro’s unconventional first 4 years marked by successes, controversies (3rd place winner nationally for Profile Writing in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program)
- Amherst account inspires Northwestern student to reveal own sexual assault
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- Northwestern student Dmitri Teplov found dead on campus; students grieve for third time this year
- A seat left empty: Northwestern grieves as Dmitri Teplov’s death ruled a suicide
- Hands of support: Northwestern commemorates Dmitri Teplov with memorial
- Asian NU Project hosts first-ever Asian pride rally
