After years of complaints about urban Houston’s pothole-ridden streets, the City of Houston has answered. Mayor Sylvester Turner proudly unveiled an intricate diagram of a 20-lane freeway at yesterday’s...
On January 24, HISD announced that they were “monitoring weather conditions” in regards to the heavy rain predicted for the Houston area the next day. The statement was released at 8:34 PM January...
By Ava Lim, Co-Editor in Chief
• December 13, 2022
I’ve been fortunate enough to have all four of my grandparents every Christmas. I just wish my GongGong hadn’t been there for the last one.
It felt as if the phone was ringing slower and slower...
This school year, Carnegie Vanguard High School and other HISD schools implemented new safety policies following the Uvalde, Texas shooting on May 24 at Robb Elementary. HISD approved a $2.3 million budget...
I’m lying about who I am.
Or at least, that’s what Instagram says. I’d been scrolling with half my brain for the last half hour, when suddenly, a red error message:
You have been logged out.
Hm....
Spoilers for The Dropout ahead. Trigger warning for mention of sexual assault.
A woman, clothed head to toe in black. Black eyeliner widens the slightly terrifying stare she's burning into...
On March 22, Texas governor Ted Cruz questioned attorney, jurist, and Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson about her values as a woman, mother, and person with self-respect.
Cruz opened with...
On February 22, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate parents for child abuse if they allowed their children to receive gender-affirming...
Imagine breathing through a narrow straw. For a second. For five seconds. For five minutes. Five hours. Five days. A tight band is wrapped around your chest and every breath brings a new wave of fire into...
Normally, I wouldn’t consider myself prone to injury.
But in the last month, I’ve strained my wrist, several fingers, twisted my neck with something akin to pinching a nerve, and began waking...
Hair accessories have been making their rounds through the trend cycle recently. Today, the claw clip prevails when taming hair with comfort, style, and ease. The clips come in a variety of shapes and...
In an Upstream News survey with 120 participating CVHS students, 90.8% of students believed it to be important to ask for others’ pronouns and 22% of students reported using non-traditional pronouns--but only 3.3% of students reported all of their teachers inquiring about their pronouns in the first week of school.
