Jim Reid wrote:
> She's still there? I was surprised recently when I saw an interview
> with her and it indentified her as a writer for a Houston paper. That's
> why I said the above.
Apparently she starteed in Houston. She's been battling breast cancer
since 1999. Here's the Wikipedia bio of her:
Her first newspaper job was in the complaint department of the Houston
Chronicle, followed by the position of sewer editor. She went on to the
Minneapolis Tribune, where she was the first woman police reporter in
that city and, later, the reporter who covered a beat called Movements
for Social Change, where she notes that she wrote about "militant
blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley
assortment of other misfits and troublemakers." She left the Tribune to
write for the Texas Observer from 1970 to 1976. The New York Times,
concerned that its prevailing writing style was too staid and lifeless,
hired her away from the Observer in 1976, and she wrote for the Times
until 1982. Her more colorful style clashed with the editors'
expectations, and in 1982, after she wrote about a "community
chicken-killing festival" and called it a "gang-pluck," she was
dismissed. She then wrote for the Dallas Times Herald from 1982 until
the paper's demise in 1992, moving in that year to the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, her current home paper. Her column, currently
distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in more than 300 papers
nationwide.
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