Raj Mankad

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…

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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...

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Transit riders are used to waiting. You’ve seen us there, under a shelter if we’re lucky, craning our necks looking for a bus in the distance. But waiting more than 20 years is too long. That’s how long Houston has been waiting for the long-promised University Line to break ground. Then, last week, Metro decided that we’ll have to keep waiting, perhaps forever. The main reason the board of Houston’s public transit agency gave? Construction costs, which have ballooned with inflation. While tha…

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Even Indians don't say "Kamala" the same way. The way Vice President Harris says it is as untraditional as Trump's version. It's the intent that matters.

After reporting on Houston's celebrated homeless response system, a journalist reflects on whether homeowners can help fill the gaps.