Isaac Yu
Student Journalist at Yale Daily News
Reporting Intern at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Articles
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Benjamin Wermund |Edward McKinley |Isaac Yu
The Texas House is taking up a sweeping private school voucher plan on Wednesday that is a top priority for Gov. Greg Abbott and would give students roughly $10,000 a year in taxpayer money to spend on private education. Despite aggressive lobbying from major GOP donors and elected officials, the education policy has never found enough support to pass the chamber.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Benjamin Wermund |Edward McKinley |Isaac Yu
The Holy Spirit had blessed St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, businessman Clarence Kahlig declared last fall at the groundbreaking of the church's new $24 million school in Boerne, north of San Antonio. The blessing was all the donations that had poured in from the congregation, including a plot of land and $5 million from Kahlig, a parishioner who runs a local auto sales empire.
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1 month ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Tanya Babbar |Isaac Yu |Matt Zdun
Never in a million years did Ann Gauger think she and her husband would start growing cannabis on their family farm in Lubbock. The success, Gauger said, has been a lifeline for their family farm amid dropping commodity prices and water shortages in the Panhandle. Critics in the Legislature say the booming and largely unregulated market in Texas has gone too far, and are especially worried that THC gummies are being sold to children.
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1 month ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Isaac Yu
As the cannabis market has expanded (and expanded), the terms used to describe the myriad products available - marijuana, hemp, THC, delta-9 - have become more complex. The industry itself is fast-evolving, and companies are often incentivized to rename or relabel products to fit a given state's laws while catering to consumer demand. That has made the issue something of a moving target for legislators hoping to regulate or restrict its use.
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1 month ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Isaac Yu
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick doubled down on his push to ban THC products Wednesday morning, saying he's been pressuring Texas liquor stores to drop cannabis-infused drinks and visiting Austin-area smoke shops to check whether they're selling intoxicating products to children. Patrick released a five-minute video of the visits on X and also put out a map showing many stores are close to schools. He alleged sales to underage consumers are widespread and creating health issues.
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