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Southwest Houstonians Display Little Hostility to Superintendent Miles at Sugar Grove Family Meeting

Southwest Houstonians Display Little Hostility to Superintendent Miles at Sugar Grove Family Meeting

It wasn’t the southwest that made the meeting spicy. Many recent HISD family meetings have been tense, but Superintendent Mike Miles received quite a bit of applause when Noe Ortega, the new principal of Sugar Grove Academy, introduced him to the parents and students filling the school’s cafeteria

Being Carless in Sharpstown

Being Carless in Sharpstown

I didn’t pay much attention to public transportation—until somebody hit my car and messed up my transmission. I didn’t have the time (or budget) to go car shopping right away. I was wrapping up a semester of teaching five college classes, preparing to teach a summer class

A Jaunt on the 309: Gulfton’s Limited Public Transit System

A Jaunt on the 309: Gulfton’s Limited Public Transit System

Half an hour after sunset, I trekked the shadowed sidewalks of Gulfton. My adventure began on July 18 with an experimental trip on the Silver Line, which METRO plans to extend from the Galleria, through Gulfton, to the east side of Sharpstown. I was a bit disappointed by the mostly

Thomas J. Cotter Named New Principal of Sharpstown High

Thomas J. Cotter Named New Principal of Sharpstown High

HISD confirmed on Wednesday that Superintendent Mike Miles has replaced Dan De Leon, former principal of Sharpstown High School, with Thomas J. Cotter. After teaching reading and social studies at HISD’s Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, he served in administration at five different public schools of all grade levels. First, he

Community Events in Sharpstown: July 24-29, 2023

Community Events in Sharpstown: July 24-29, 2023

Monday, July 24 12:00 PM: Southwest Management District Board Meeting at District Office 6588 Corporate Drive, Suite 168, Houston, Texas 77036 Agenda highlights: * Receive Assessment Collection Report. * Receive monthly financial report and approve payment of invoices. * Consider sponsorship request from the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, Houston Community Involvement Fund

What SW Houstonians Think of Extending METRO's Silver Line to Hillcroft and Bissonnet

What SW Houstonians Think of Extending METRO's Silver Line to Hillcroft and Bissonnet

Leo Simon’s palms were covered with white tile dust as he boarded the silver METRO bus at Four Oaks and Post Oak at 6:34 PM. After a day of maintenance work in the Galleria area, he needed to take three buses to get to his home in the

An Underwhelming Trip on METRO’s Low-Rider Silver Line

An Underwhelming Trip on METRO’s Low-Rider Silver Line

Empty blue seats stared back at me as I sat for eleven minutes on a silver bus at the Westpark/Lower Uptown Transit Center (TC), joined only by a woman in a blue-green shirt, a man with a black suitcase, and a quarter-full Starbucks iced coffee (or tea?) abandoned on