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High incomes, low population helps Bellaire, West U keep coronavirus deaths at zero Ryan Nickerson, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail Cars line up on Minute Maid Park (Lot C) at 2208 Preston Street waiting to get tested for COVID-19, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Bellaire and West University Place have reported zero deaths due to COVID-19, despite Harris County having some of the highest COVID-19 related death totals in the state. Although the two cities, which are located in the heart of Harris County, have similar COVID-19 prec...

Memoir tracks a career from Houston to the White House with Jimmy Carter FacebookTwitterEmail Raised in Houston, Barry Jagoda is the author of Journeys With Jimmy Carter and Other Adventures in Media.File Deep into his memoir about a life in journalism and media, Barry Jagoda looks back on his college years and recalls an old poly-sci class in which he learned the definition of “politics”: “the skill of resolving conflict.” Jagoda’s career would take him through news, the White House and news again, giving him a long view of the ways politics can change. And he doesn’t believe the...

Daily, 6am-4pm 5422 Bellaire Popular Meyerland breakfast stop The Bagel Shop has officially opened another location, this time over in Bellaire, withpatio seating, a counter-style coffee bar with an espresso machine and pastries, bagels, breakfast sandwiches, deli favorites and grab-and-go items. Food Network Star chef Roshni Gurnani will helm the kitchen as executive chef, with chef Adriana Soto as the kitchen supervisor. Pop in for old favorites from whitefish salad and tuna fish salad to all the bagels, or try new items like the Falafel Burger, Elvis Schmelvish bagel sandwich and Deep F...

January 8, 2021 As I do every year, I would like to start 2021 by paying tribute to all the jewelers who closed their physical stores over the last year. Some worried that a unprecedented number of jewelry stores would close in 2020, given the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting strain on the economy. Yet, like the Jewelers Board of Trade, I didn’t find as many closures this year as I had in the past, and I am not sure why. Perhaps some retailers decided it just wasn’t a great time to shut their doors. Maybe it was a little easier to make deals with landlords. And, most of the informatio...

A baritone finds a safe way choirs can sing together again: over car radios Richard Read Baritone-for-hire David Newman was looking forward to a year of singing gigs. Then, in March, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, two members of a choir in Washington state died, and dozens more fell ill after their two-hour practice became a super-spreader event. Concerts were quickly wiped from calendars around the world. "The piercing irony of having to cancel is that the joy this music brings is what we now as a culture need more than ever," said an email Newman received from Wisc...