April Towery

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | April Towery

Eatmon, now 33 and a native of Houston’s Acres Homes community, announced Thursday that she’s running for U.S. Congressional District 18, the seat held by Jackson Lee for three decades and most recently vacated by former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who died in March. “When my mom told me what [Jackson Lee’s] job was, it lit a fire in me to want to do the same thing,” Eatmon said.

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | April Towery

Montrose resident Jason Ginsburg has been fighting alongside other Houstonians for over a year to protect longstanding neighborhoods from being overrun by party houses advertised on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb. Sebastien Long hosts dozens of short-term apartment rentals for business travelers and cancer patients and hopes that regulations imposed by the city are not so costly and onerous that they put him out of business.

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | April Towery

A University of Houston professor told students Sunday that his math classes would be taken over by another educator through the end of the semester so he could return to South Korea to resolve his immigration status. The news comes in the wake of hundreds of Texas international students losing their immigration status.

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | April Towery

Parthenia “Ms. Pat” Chaney was born and raised in Houston’s Sunnyside community. She went to college at the University of Houston, Clark Atlanta University and the University of Texas at Dallas and had a 37-year career, first as a surgical nurse and, later, an accountant. She moved back to the home she grew up in and is now one of millions of Americans barely getting by on a monthly government check.

2 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | April Towery |Houston Press

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