Opinion: Hateful words don t belong in property deeds
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Kanin Arimura, 6, climbs a tree at the park of the Old Braeswood community on which she is a resident. She visited the park with her mother and sister on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
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Regarding “Racist restrictions,” (A12, Feb. 11): In 2019, the Old Braeswood Property Owners Association decided to eliminate the racist language from the deed restrictions. Although we knew that such language was not enforceable, we strongly believed that it did not belong in our deed restrictions.
We spent a lot of time and effort to collect signatures from 75 percent of OBPOA owners and spent a good amount of money on legal representation and filing fees, but we succeeded in deleting such language from the restrictions.
Opinion: What does money smell like? Flaring
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Corey Williams, research and policy director for Air Alliance Houston, installs an air monitor Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, at San Pedro Episcopal Church in Pasadena. WIlliams said that TCEQ s air monitoring network isn t necessarily designed with local public health in mind, which is why they sought to install the monitor near two schools.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Pasadena flaring
Regarding “Pasadena plays defense on pollution,” (A1, Feb. 3): In the 1960s, we lived near Hobby Airport, where we could see the flares from Pasadena. We used to chant, “Pasadena where the air is greenah.” Friends who lived there would retort, “it’s the color and smell of money!”
Emil Freireich, a pioneer of chemotherapy and ‘towering figure in oncology,’ dies at 93
His success with patients who others believed to be lost causes vastly expanded options for treatment.
By Emily LangerThe Washington Post
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Emil Freireich, a physician-scientist who helped engineer effective treatments for childhood leukemia at a time when the disease was considered a death sentence, an advance that magnified the promise of chemotherapy and was credited with saving tens of thousands of lives, died Feb. 1 in Houston. He was 93.
His death was announced by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where Dr. Freireich worked for half a century and where he died. A spokeswoman for the center said that he had covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but that the cause of death has not yet been determined.