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Best of 2020: Family Vacation to Spain Becomes Adventure in Virus Lockdown
What do you do when you're on vacation - a long planned one - and the whole world goes into lockdown? That's what our intern, Dahlia Faheid, was confronted with in March, and her first-person account is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Peacefulness on Earth, USA
“And mamma in her’ kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter’s nap…” – from “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore
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USPS Busy Season Woes Compounded by COVID-19
It's not unusual to hear warnings from the U.S. Postal Service around the holidays regarding the timing of those Christmas packages. But when you add in a pandemic, even businesses and individuals that aren't sending anything Christmas related are watching warily.
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The President of the Park Cities and Preston Hollow
I’m from Texas and not ashamed of President George W. Bush nor the Dixie Chicks.
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A Deeper Dive Into COVID Learning Loss
Learning during a pandemic - with mass shutdowns of schools and inequities to access to everything from instructional supports to broadband internet - is uncharted territory.
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Thanksgiving and Hozhoji
It’s impossible to predict, but with any luck, November will be bookended by a presidential election and the coming together of families and friends at that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving.
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In a COVID Christmas Season, Small Businesses Need Support
It’s been a rough year for small businesses, and it isn’t over yet.
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What Was Our Best Work of 2020?
As the year (and what a year it has been) winds to a close, our last People's Choice for 2020 will be all about us.
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Talking Health Care For Texas’ Sake
For years, Texans have known through difficult personal experience that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six months, those issues have hit home for millions more.
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A Boy’s Take on Masks: Be Nice
I am a fourth grader, but even fourth graders have opinions about things.
Election
Thoughts From a First-Time Voter
Let’s be honest- 2020 has proved itself to be a very unconventional year. The unprecedented effects of COVID-19 have resulted in unideal lifestyle changes for many Americans, and to many citizens, this year’s voting situation seems unideal as well.
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We Should Mentor Younger Students
I have completed around 2,000 days of in-person classroom learning and 71 days of COVID-19-induced virtual learning. It’s clear that my virtual learning experience is far from over.
In Case You Missed It
A Look Back …
It’s been a year, almost, since that night that changed a lot. And with everything that came after the tornado that struck North Dallas last year, it’s almost hard to believe that it has been a year.
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Teen Author Shows Learning Differences Aren’t Disabilities
I don’t remember how old I was when I was first told about my learning difference, but I think there’s a reason for that. The reason is this: When I found out, nothing changed.
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Stakeholders Disagree About Best Way Forward for Snider Plaza
Print and online news coverage of infrastructure replacement plans and a city of University Park proposal for creating a public improvement district (PID) to address maintenance, future needs, and amenities for Snider Plaza have drawn comments from merchants.
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Let’s Cancel “Cancel Culture”
The iconoclastic notion that our American history, civilization, and culture is so offensive, abusive, punitive, and exclusive that it needs to be canceled out is becoming normalized.
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Senior Returns to Much Different HPHS
As a freshman, I had imagined that the first day of my senior year would be spent roaming the halls with my classmates and counting down the days until graduation.
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Orange Is The New (Almost) Back
It’s been six very long months since COVID-19 brought everything to a screeching halt.
