Please join me at noon tomorrow (Feb. 12) for this important conversation with Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee. Don't forget to register!

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.

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For months, I've been talking with Univ. of Missouri journalism students about their media tour to Houston. Today, I finally met the 15 students who visited the Houston Chronicle to learn about what we do, how we do it and why we love it. Smart, engaging group. #mizzou

Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert. One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone. w/ Capitol News Illinois

I'm so close to putting up a barbed wire fence with a shock feature.

Last night's 9th annual Year of Joy Holiday Ice Skating Party at Discovery Green: 200 children 50 volunteers 3 ice-skating performers 1 ballerina Miss Houston Pageant winners A Congressional proclamation Fox 26 TV host as emcee Santa Claus Too many smiles to count. #yearofjoy

Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, who emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults, died Dec. 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81.

My question: Define 'sexually explicit.'

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Sidewalk School, a humanitarian nonprofit offers classes several days a week to migrant children in Reynosa and nearby Matamoros, sister city to Brownsville. The kids aren’t enrolled in local public schools, so the nonprofit teaches them reading, math, and art.

Los Angeles officials on Tuesday moved to cement the city and its schools as sanctuaries for immigrants and LGBTQ youth as the city positions itself to push back strongly against President-elect Donald Trump’s platforms on immigration and gender.

My second time moderating a talk with Dr. Ruth Simmons about her memoir “Up Home.” Today, it was for the First Ladies Book Club of the Barbara BushHouston Literacy Foundation. Dr. Simmons’ life story should inspire anyone to get busy living. She's had a remarkable journey.

Telehealth providers say requests for the pills have spiked since the election. Patients and doctors worry what a Trump presidency could mean for medical abortion and emergency contraception.

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