This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe Texas economy in 2020 suffered the steepest job losses in at least 30 years, forecasting a difficult recovery that could take two years or more to return employment to pre-pandemic levels.Texas ended the year with 430,000 fewer jobs than it began, exceeding the 370,000 lost in 2009, the worst year of the Great Recession, according to government statistics. The job losses in 2020 were the greatest since the Labor Department began the current data series in 1990.The Houston metropolitan area also sustained record job losses. The...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe Texas economy in 2020 suffered the steepest job losses in at least 30 years, forecasting a difficult recovery that could take two years or more to return employment to pre-pandemic levels.Texas ended the year with 430,000 fewer jobs than it began, exceeding the 370,000 lost in 2009, the worst year of the Great Recession, according to government statistics. The job losses in 2020 were the greatest since the Labor Department began the current data series in 1990.The Houston metropolitan area also sustained record job losses. The...WW…

A dead man was found laying on the Gulf Freeway on Saturday night.The 20-to 30-year-old man was dead when police arrived around 11 p.m. Witnesses told Houston Police they saw the man fall out of the bed of a white truck. The vehicular crimes unit is investigating the incident.…A dead man was found laying on the Gulf Freeway on Saturday night.The 20-to 30-year-old man was dead when police arrived around 11 p.m. Witnesses told Houston Police they saw the man fall out of the bed of a white truck. The vehicular crimes unit is investigating the incident.WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA woman in her 90s may have been one of the oldest of the afternoon regulars at the River Oaks Bookstore. For decades, she arrived around 2 p.m. and spent the afternoon reading on the comfy couches and chairs at the front of the landmark store.Once the pandemic hit, drop-ins like hers all but disappeared. The shop started delivering books and doing curbside pickup to protect its older clientele, among the highest risk for COVID-19. The owners knew the shop’s days were numbered, but the pandemic has forced its final chapter.“Yes, I...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA woman in her 90s may have been one of the oldest of the afternoon regulars at the River Oaks Bookstore. For decades, she arrived around 2 p.m. and spent the afternoon reading on the comfy couches and chairs at the front of the landmark store.Once the pandemic hit, drop-ins like hers all but disappeared. The shop started delivering books and doing curbside pickup to protect its older clientele, among the highest risk for COVID-19. The owners knew the shop’s days were numbered, but the pandemic has forced its final chapter.“Yes, I...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateDiana Garcia spends most of her day alone in the gift shop she manages, one of the few stores with lights on in her corner of the tunnel underneath Louisiana Street. The three neighboring restaurants that once brought hundreds of people past Glamour’s Gifts — and many of them inside — remain dark, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic emptied downtown office towers of workers.“No one is ever here,” Garcia said.Few areas of the local economy were hit as hard by the pandemic as downtown and few face as much uncertainty as...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateDiana Garcia spends most of her day alone in the gift shop she manages, one of the few stores with lights on in her corner of the tunnel underneath Louisiana Street. The three neighboring restaurants that once brought hundreds of people past Glamour’s Gifts — and many of them inside — remain dark, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic emptied downtown office towers of workers.“No one is ever here,” Garcia said.Few areas of the local economy were hit as hard by the pandemic as downtown and few face as much uncertainty as...WW…