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What can we do while curbside recycling and large waste removal services are suspended?Quite a lot, as it turns out. Hurricane Harvey left a mountain of trash behind. Piles of debris line the streets in neighborhood after neighborhood, some of them taller than the rooftops….

Have you ever wondered where the books go when the Houston Public Library weeds their collections? We had not ever thought about it, but Friends of the Houston Public Library thought about it, and they decided to h with all of those books. We delved into…

I have a co-worker that likes to move my phone on me when I walk away from my desk. If I leave it sitting by my keyboard, when I come back, it’s hidden in a stack of folders. When he sees me coming down the…

Think about this for a minute. If you don’t have a checking account, you can spend up to $40,000 cashing your paycheck over your lifetime. Now, what if you are only making $30,000 a year in gross income? The numbers don’t add up, and in…

His long fingers adeptly wrapped around the yellow crayon, as he hurriedly drew a sun on a large sheet of paper. Take your time. Raj was a creature of habit. He had recently been rescued from a shoe factory, where he was kept locked in…

I remember being a moody teenager and I know my parents remember it even more so. Some days I wanted to talk about my day and others I just wanted peace and quiet and I can’t tell you why I was like that because it…