Raj Mankad

Texans deserve true access to our state’s wildflowers not just roadside but in great free...

The Sneary family adopted regenerative ranching practices that restore soil and sequester...

After two years of pandemic, the Chronicle’s op-ed editor tried to reconnect with the...

After two years of pandemic, the Chronicle’s op-ed editor tried to reconnect with the...

As we battle over TxDOT’s plans, we need a grounded perspective that centers on the...

And now this? It’s a phrase 54-year-old Alice Torres uses like a refrain in a ballad of traumas over the past few years that led her here, to this moment, speaking to me by phone with the borrowed breath of a backup oxygen tank that, by Wednesday afternoon, was running dangerously low. Harvey didn’t spare her and her mother Dolores Torres in 2017, swamping the 60-year-old, low-slung brick house they shared near Hobby Airport in so much water that home and flood insurance couldn’t cover mold reme…

Though most of the cartoons you see in the Opinion section come through national syndication, Houston-based cartoonist John Branch is a regular contributor on Sundays. Op-Ed Editor Raj Mankad spoke to Branch about his work and his drawings for 2019. How does the idea for a cartoon come to you? Basically a lot of trial and error, and a lot of erasing. You try to find visual metaphors to say what you want to say and to be concise as you can be. Sometimes the ideas flow and pop in from nowhere. Of…

This week, Houston takes center stage in a national movement to preserve communities of color. A three-day conference will culminate November 3 with the inaugural celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony to kick off the North Main Street Heritage Corridor Initiative in Independence Heights, where artists will draw sketches of seven planned murals that will tell the story of the first African American municipality in Texas. “The theme of the 2018 Preserving Communities of Color Conference is Disru…

Every year, the same awful routine. I send my wife a text message: A bicyclist was killed near Rice, not me. You see, one time early in my life as a commuter who takes turns walking, bicycling and riding the bus, I did not send a message like that to her, and I did not have my mobile phone ringer on, so she pent an hour trying to reach me and worrying for no reason. Now I’m sure to let her know I’m OK with a quick text. The next step in the awful routine is to share the opinion pieces and editor…

Josephine’s Salon lost everything but the chandeliers to the floodwaters of Harvey. In addition to scissors, blow dryers, products and earnings, several employees also lost their homes and cars. At the Cigna Sunday Streets HTX this weekend, December 3 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Energy Corridor along Eldridge Parkway between Enclave Parkway and Briar Forest Drive, Josephine’s will be reconnecting with their community with a sidewalk sale while the renovation of their space continues. Sunday Stree…