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Houston farmer loses 80 percent of crop in Texas freeze, and he's not alone FacebookTwitterEmail 1of27 Plant It Forward farmer and chef Constant Ngouala surveys his farmland at the PIF Braeswood Church location on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.Annie Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 2of27 Plant It Forward farmer Constant Ngouala surveys both damaged and salvageable produce at the PIF Braeswood Church location on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.Annie Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 3of27 4of27 Plant It Forward farmer and chef Constant Ngouala assesses da...

This is an example of good government spending, and it’s about to get cut Slash and burn budgeting threatens a program that feeds hungry Texans Lots of carrots filled a fruits and vegetables assembly line outside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, March 28, 2020 coordinated by Arlington Charities, Fielder Road Baptist Church and Tarrant Area Food Bank. Austin is considering a budget that cuts a program that allows food banks to purchase damaged produce from Texas farmers.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) A program that feeds hungry Texans is on the chopping block in Austin. Legislato...

Even as average personal incomes rose during the pandemic largely because of government aid, millions of people who didn’t receive such help have fallen into poverty, struggling to pay for

By Tim Henderson Stateline.org/TNS Even as average personal incomes rose during the pandemic largely because of government aid, millions of people who didn’t receive such help have fallen into poverty, struggling to pay for food and other basic expenses. That group, trying to get by with the help of local charities, may have been excluded from the federal payments because of immigration status, lack of time in the labor force needed to claim unemployment benefits, or just red tape in states that have been slow to pay jobless claims. The situation in the Houston area is particularly desperat...

What the first new moon rocks in decades can tell us The Chang'e 5 return capsule containing the Earth's newest moon rocks is loaded into a truck. Image: Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images The newest moon rocks to have landed on Earth are now headed to the lab.  On Dec. 17, the Chinese National Space Administration’s Chang’e 5 mission accomplished something no one has done in over 40 years — they brought a little piece of the moon to Earth. That makes China the third country, along with the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, to bring back a sample from the moon, and the first...