Margaret Downing

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Any hopes that the public was going to be in a forgiving mood about Houston ISD's failure to get board approval before it agreed to $870 million in purchase agreements were pretty much dashed at Thursday night's HISD board meeting. What Superintendent Mike Miles has called a "good faith error,"...

HISD Superintendent Mike Miles went on HISD Now Sudnay to announce that the district it is closing its campuses for Tuesday and Wednesday, January 21 and 22 due to the winter storm warning that predicts heavy snow and sleet possible for the Houston area. In his recorded remarks, Miles thanked Houston Mayor...

When Yaritza Véliz was 13 years old, she happened to be at a church service where a tenor performed. She had been singing at home and in the school chorus but had no idea of what opera was, she says. The only thing she knew was that the man was singing in a certain familiar way.

With an Arctic freeze on the way, Mayor John Whitmire Sunday night issued a plea to prepare for a rough few days and to stay off the roads starting late Monday. "I've been convinced that we are about to experience a very serious and dangerous weather episode," Whitmire said. "We've...

At a 5 p.m. press conference Monday, Mayor Whitmire asked Houstonians to get off the roads by 7 p.m. and warned that the snow and other precipitation originally predicted to arrive at midnight, may instead show up around 10 p.m. "I ask you to lower your activities. Stay at home...

Houston and the surrounding area woke up this morning to snow and sleet. Weather prognosticators got it right when they said it was coming. They were also right to move up the arrival timetable from midnight to around 10 p.m. Many areas tstarted seeing snow and sleet by 9 p.m...

"What we did the last 24 hours worked, let's do it the next 24 hours," Houston Mayor John Whitmire said at his 5 p.m. press conference Tuesday. Although a lot of happy residents took advantage of the day to do some impromptu sledding and build snowmen, others needed transportation to...

Charlie Baker is dropped off at a fishing and hunting lodge in the backwoods of 1984 Georgia. He's depressed because his adulterous wife, who he loves, may be dying. An introvert, Charlie doesn't want to be there and certainly doesn't want to engage. So S/Sgt Froggy LeSueur, a fellow Englishman,...

Beginning by saying he hoped this would be his last or almost last press conference on Winter Storm Enzo, Mayor Whitmire Wednesday termed the entire operation successful in dealing with the arctic blast. "No fatalities due to traffic accidents, we've had no fatalities to carbon monoxide," Whitmire said "We had 1,300...