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High costs, dwindling enrollment: Is Houston ISD’s playbook under takeover sustainable?
Reporting Highlights Increase in costs: Houston ISD is spending millions to pay for academic reforms, including more staff, higher salaries and new equipment. At half of the district’s schools, HISD spent an extra $700,000 per campus and about $2,200 more per student. Dropping en...
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3409: Pickelhaube
Episode: 3409 We trace the long life of a silly helmet. Today, a puzzling headpiece.
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Five signs we live in the Matrix
What if “The Matrix” wasn’t really about humans trapped in a computer simulation? What if it were warning us about a society so filled with contradictions that people stop questioning them? No, we’re not talking about dodging bullets in slow motion. We’re talking about dodging fa...
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Redlining 2.0: The hidden cost of owning a home while Black
This article was originally written by Willie Blackmore for Word In Black. For Black homeowners, protecting the family home can come with a hidden surcharge. In Michigan, homeowners in predominantly Black neighborhoods pay an average of 74% more for the same homeowners’ insurance...
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Dept. of Education changes standard for school discrimination complaints
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has eliminated “disparate impact” as a basis for Title VI discrimination complaints. This means a policy’s unintentional racially disproportionate effects no longer constitute an independent basis for a Title VI violation...
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Houston Black churches weigh AI data center costs
The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) recently entered the growing debate over artificial intelligence data centers with a position that is neither an outright embrace nor rejection of the technology. The coalition, which says it represents 150,000 African American and Lati...
business
Houstonians mourn the loss of shared culture
There was a time when a whole city tuned into the same radio station, rented from the same video store, and argued over the same album drop. That shared experience is disappearing, and Houston’s Black Millennials and Gen Z say they’re growing up in two different cultural worlds b...
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Off-duty HCSO deputy shoots man she suspected was breaking into neighbor’s home, sheriff says
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in the Mission Bend area involving one of their own deputies Sunday. According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, an off-duty deputy shot a man on Rio Blanco Drive, which is near Bellaire and Winkelman Road, around 5:10 p.m. HCS...
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Man injured in shooting by ICE officer in North Austin
The shooting happened Sunday afternoon near Anderson and U.S. 183.
Local
Man shot by off-duty deputy in west Harris County
A Harris County sheriff’s deputy shot a man inside a home Sunday in the Mission Bend area, according to the sheriff’s office.
safety
Walmart, Ulta, Kay among 10 chains targeted in multi-state shoplifting and smash-and-grab thefts; 11 indicted
National chains like Walmart, Home Depot, Ulta, and Kay Jewelers were among the retailers targeted by an alleged crime ring accused of conducting snatch-and-grab jewelry robberies and going on shoplifting sprees across multiple states....
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ICE agent shoots man in North Austin, victim hospitalized
A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in North Austin, prompting a joint investigation by Austin police, Texas Rangers and HSI.