This is a story that I was particularly interested in given my love of architecture and history. It concerns the fate of the 1949 Granada Theater in the Eastex-Jensen neighborhood of North Houston. The long-vacant building sits on a larger site that's set to become a large-scale Catholic Charities family service center. The organization claims that saving the theater is not feasible. But that isn't stopping community members and others who held a protest the day I turned this story. I used the event as a backdrop for my live shot.
Monday, September 8, 2025
Mom Gets Emotional Over Daughter's After-School Attack
This is a story that was the result of someone contacting us via our "newstips" email. We often get story ideas through this method. In this case, a mom was concerned after her 13-year-old daughter was attacked on her walk home from school. Video of the incident was shared online. That's something that upset the mother even further. We had to consult our station attorney regarding usage of the video since we didn't know the original source other than it likely being another student. I had to make sure I carefully worded the script to be transparent about the video. We also blurred it since juveniles were involved. The mom had a particular dramatic message for other parents.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
When a sad story becomes even more tragic
So, this is my first post in a while.. But I wanted to include this powerful story from last Summer in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. Many in the Houston area dealt with power outages and we covered issues across the region. I was dispatched to a condo complex in Houston where I interviewed several people who had contacted us about a lack of AC. We noticed a Houston Fire Department crew pull up in the middle of one of my interviews. Sadly, a neighbor was found unresponsive inside her apartment. My photographer and I quickly followed the first responders and captured dramatic reactions from neighbors as the woman was pronounced deceased. It was a very emotional scene as we did our jobs while showing compassion.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Stepping back into Texas history
I haven't been able to update my blog in a while because of technical issues. But here's a story from the not so distant past. I got to escape every day news and crime and take a short trip to Washington on the Brazos. It's an historic site in the midst of a major renovation. It's a nice change of pace to get out and cover something related to history which is a passion of mine.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Inside a NASA habitat meant to mimic Mars
It's always fun to get to visit Johnson Space Center. There are so many interesting stories. This is is about a program designed to measure the psychological, physiological and other impacts of isolation and confinement similar to what future astronauts might experience on Mars. Four astronaut-like volunteers will soon spend a year inside the habitat which includes a "sandbox" filled with red-colored sand that looks a little like Mars's surface. I did a stand-up in the middle of the story standing in the sand.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Meeting the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon
We're lucky enough to have Johnson Space Center in our back yard. That means big NASA news usually makes the news. In this case, Houston hosted the reveal of NASA's Artemis II crew.. Three American astronauts and one from the Canadian Space Agency. I covered the event in a hangar at NASA's Ellington Airport facilities before heading over to JSC in order to interview one of the crew. I sat down with Artemis II pilot Victor Glover who will man the controls as the Orion spacecraft travels around the moon in order to demonstrate the its capabilities. Future missions include landing on the moon again and eventually setting sights on Mars.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
NCAA Men's Final Four "Legacy Project" Reveal
Houston is hosting the 2023 NCAA Men's Final Four and KHOU is carrying the action. We've been in March Madness mode for a while. I've done a couple of previous stories on the historic Blue Triangle Community Center being selected as this year's host city "Legacy Project." This story is from the day a basketball court renovation was revealed. I even did my look-live intro and outro (me at the beginning and end of main story) dribbling and MAKING a basket (on my first take haha).
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