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Issue Date: Friday, December 14, 2007 Issue: Chronicle Insight Volume III Last Update: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
  • Homeless in Houston: How is Houston caring for the estimated 14,000 living without shelter every night?

    Thursday, December 13, 2007 By: Austin Grogin, Bellaire High School

    Letter from Editor After a successful first issue, we here at Insight chose to do something a little different for our second issue. While we all had interesting story ideas for our second issue, we k

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  • Variety of organiations join forces to aid areas's homeless: Public, private groups often have to provide more than mere shelter

    Thursday, December 13, 2007 By: Jonathan Harris, Carnegie Vanguard High School

    Help for Houston-area residents in need comes from hundreds of public and private agencies, many of them interconnected in a web of necessity.. The Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harr

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  • Houston lawmaker fights for veterans with housing bill: Green proposes Homes for Heroes in new legislation

    Thursday, December 13, 2007 By: Sashi Nisankarao

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  • To aid needy, he puts all of his eggs in one basket: 10,000 meals later, Houston man has become legend among homeless

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Amber Collins, Lamar High School

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  • Hard times lead to friendship: New found friends hope their friendship endures tough times

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Morgan Wilson, Bellaire High School; Paloma Lenz, Milby High School

    Beneath the elegant Downtown skyline and beside the bustling roadways infiltrated by expensive cars, mediocre city buses and convenient rails sit three men brought together by their unfortunate circum

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  • Seeking justice for all: Dealing with the COURTS SYSTEM can be daunting. When you are HOMELESS, it's almost impossible

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Austin Grogin, Bellaire High School

    Every day, millions of children across the nation stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in their classes, promising loyalty and dedication to the United States in return for “liberty and justic

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  • Group struggles to provide homes for stray animals: CAPS handles 125,000 cats, dogs - or whatever - here each yeara

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Olivia Oppenheim, Westside High School

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  • Market Square uneasy being often associated with homeless: Downtown site would prefer to be known for history

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Gabriella Flournoy, Carnegie Vanguard High School

    In 1854 one of Houston’s city founders, Augustus Allen, donated the plot of land in downtown, surrounded by Travis, Milam, Preston and Congress. Since then, this square has seen the highs and lows of

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  • Rockets go overtime to aid those in need: Team's staffers, relatives assist adopted families

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Sean McLoad, Westside High School

    Showing style, on and off the court, The Houston Rockets and their families are giving back to their biggest fans – the less fortunate.As part of the “Season of Giving,” the Rockets, players, coaches

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  • Finding the music in all of us

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007 By: Rebecca Goldstein, Bellaire High School

    "Joy to the world, the Lord is come!Let earth receive her King;Let every heart prepare Him room,And heaven and nature sing,And heaven and nature sing,And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing."These lyr

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BACK-UP 101 Rugby Arch of Fun= ArcherySANTAWEEN SANTAWEEN: PART II
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Struggle to Change
There are thousands of homeless people who deal with or have dealt with alcohol or substance abuse at one point in their lives. In these cases, shelters like The Star of Hope are there to guide them b
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Homeless on Main
Days for Lonnie Johnson are not as he would like them to be.He doesn’t have a warm bed to sleep in nor does he have the bare luxuries many others have been blessed with. But what he does have, Johnson
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One Buck Left
While traveling through west Houston, it would not be surprising to find Mimi Kumango at San Felipe and Voss waving his American flag and wearing a huge grin.For 37-year-old Kumango, a bundle of offic
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Homeward Bound
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Joseph Benson was an ordinary man living an ordinary life until tragedy struck – a truck reversing without any cones, flares or signals ran into Benson’s car, forcing him into an emergency surgery tha
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At the Star of Hope Transitional Living Center, clients enter vigorous classes teaching them how to manage bills, get a job and stay off the streets. The shelter provides food, housing, and support as
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Most people know that when Oprah Winfrey is on the scene, good news is not too far behind.Tamika Thomas, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, knows that first hand. In March, Thomas and her 7-year-old son, Ta
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Taking a long walk down path of humility
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Take a moment, put away those misconceptions
Many may think that the homeless almost do not count as productive members of society. However, this image could easily be shattered by the efforts several of the homeless make every day in order to r
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