Crisis Manager
Executive editor Kathy Blackwell and her team have chronicled the pandemic s impact on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies.
Texas Monthly executive editor Kathy Blackwell.
Jeff Wilson
For the past year, executive editor Kathy Blackwell has deftly guided our coverage of two industries in crisis: travel and dining. She and her team have chronicled the pain and destruction that COVID-19 has wreaked on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies as well as the innovative ways those businesses have found to safely serve their customers.
Kathy and company have mirrored that creativity in their journalism. They’ve focused much of
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it s an all-out hunt in berkeley to find an armed suspected. we ve had drilled for this. we re very well prepared. the hospital was ready but a lot of other people weren t to be without power all day long in san francisco. tonight we re live inside silicon valley. breaking news in berkeley where police are concealed with guns drawn and canines are searching a four block area going house by house to try to find a man with a gun. someone saw the gunman around 4:30 near mckinley street and austin way. the four blocks here highlighted on this map. reporter: we re at this perimeter at mckinley avenue. i want to take you over head to
the police were there. i couldn t believe that the police would let them there. tucker: how did the beating first of all, are you injured? i can t believe you got out of there. what are your injuries like? yeah, you know, like bruised ribs, bruised kidney. it wasn t torn. did sonogram and things. i have about four or five lumps on the back of my head. scrapes, bruises, swelling. nothing that won t heal. tucker: did these guys start hitting you without warning? how did the beating begin? you know, after the massive black block came, the police disappeared. there was announcements, the police stood down. like a sea of black just poured in the park. then started getting violent. so after a few minutes, i m still around them. i notice a whole bunch of them go down austin way. i go to see what s going on. they re following somebody or