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A decade after the bar closed and was replaced with a now-shuttered bistro-style eatery, a prominent restaurant group is bringing an updated version of it back — including that mural of the whales

Over a decade after the bar in the La Valencia Hotel closed and was replaced by a now-shuttered bistro, a prominent restaurant group is opening an updated version this month — complete with its famed whale mural.

Between teacher departures and the pandemic, schools are hurting. Deep cuts are the last thing they need. | Opinion

More than 2,100 students will be impacted by the shuttering of two campuses and charter school programs at three other schools in the West Houston district, which is cutting costs in anticipation of a $35 million budget shortfall for the 2024-25 school year. Spring Branch ISD leaders say Texas officials are to blame for not providing more funding for public schools.

Following the school shooting at YES Prep, staff and students are being given time to process the traumatic event.

A former student of a Houston public charter school shot and wounded the campus principal Friday before quickly surrendering to police, authorities said. The 25-year-old man shot through a locked, glass door at YES Prep Southwest Secondary, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. No students were hurt. Also read: Four shot dead in Houston house that was set ablaze

People walk down the road outside YES Prep Southwest Secondary school after a shooting on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 in Houston. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

It is the rare moment when a Republican elected official intervenes to alter Democratic intentions at the Capitol. Full credit to House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, for discovering a fat favor embedded in the marijuana bill.

Public input sought on former bar's most iconic features