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Denson: When following the rules isn’t enough

February 6, 2019 by Betsy Denson 1 Comment

As a parent, I understand the value of a preemptive strategy. When it came time to sign up my son for the etiquette class I wanted him to take, I just signed him up months ahead of time and then told him about it 12 hours before the first class to keep complaining to a minimum. Was he happy about it? Quite the opposite. Did he have enough time to really dig his heels in and refuse to put on a coat and tie? Negative. But that’s parenting. The variance notification process with Houston's Planning and Development department is something else entirely, but I feel like the process follows some of my same tactics – although as I found out, it’s all perfectly legal. Take the story we published last week about the proposed apartment development that Hines is seeking to build on 34th … [Read more...] about Denson: When following the rules isn’t enough

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School rankings rankle parents

June 6, 2018 by Betsy Denson 1 Comment

Every spring the non-profit organization Children at Risk releases their Texas School Guide for HISD and surrounding school districts – giving each school a letter grade – and each year I’m ambivalent about covering it. That’s because over the past seven years freelancing at The Leader I’ve visited with a lot of dynamic principals and been inside a lot of schools with tireless teachers and enthusiastic students. Some of these schools have worked hard to prove their worth to the surrounding communities. Increasing numbers of them have active groups of parent volunteers who chose to send their kids to their neighborhood school and are spending hundreds of unpaid hours to build something special, not just for their child but for all of them. Then the rankings come out and these same … [Read more...] about School rankings rankle parents

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Kids and restaurants, do they go together?

December 27, 2017 by Betsy Denson 2 Comments

I’ve thought a lot about kids in restaurants, most of all my own. We have to eat, right? And until that blissful time that we can leave them alone at home, or unless we spring for a babysitter, the kids are coming with us. I want us all to enjoy our meal, and by all of us, I mean the other diners too. It’s the death stare of another patron that I’m looking to avoid at all costs. To do that, I have some loose ‘rules’ that I hope will achieve that. I also think a restaurant with a patio allows my kids a little freer range. My husband disagrees. So did another diner last year at a local joint with a patio. Death stare not averted. The kids’ perimeter of movement went down to zero. Recently, I thought about this again when a post on a neighborhood Facebook page gave not only a restaurant … [Read more...] about Kids and restaurants, do they go together?

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What will it take to move the needle at 43rd and Rosslyn?

March 23, 2017 by Betsy Denson 2 Comments

I don’t write many editorials for The Leader. Only when the spirit – or the publisher – calls. The first one I did in 2012 was about a subject I felt very passionate about. Called ‘Imagining commercial potential in her little corner of the world’, the article still lives online. Interestingly, it’s the first thing that comes up under a Google search for my name. As a near neighbor to the corner of 43rd and Rosslyn since 2004, I was continually bummed to see that nothing ever really took off at that corner. As I mentioned in my first piece, I was optimistic when a Super Cuts moved in at 4301 Rosslyn Road. Any tenant was going to get my business. Then after about a week, there was a fire. Then nothing for 13 years. I wasn’t exactly young when I started writing for The Leader but I was … [Read more...] about What will it take to move the needle at 43rd and Rosslyn?

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To resolve or not to resolve, that is the question

January 13, 2017 by Betsy Denson 1 Comment

There are two times each year that I am convinced that I will actually become a different, better, person. The first is the start of the school year. In getting ready to send my own kids off for another year, I remember the joy of a brand new Trapper Keeper (remember those?), the smell of new, unblemished, notebooks, and I think about all the things I never did that I’m finally now going to do. The other is New Years. After a fun, frenzied Christmas, filled with more than my fair share of good food and lots of events, some part of me is ready to de-stress my life and get on the exercise bandwagon again. But this year, even after seeing some pictures of myself that would in past years send me straight to a spinning class, I curled up on the sofa and started The Crown on Netflix instead. … [Read more...] about To resolve or not to resolve, that is the question

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