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For children, it's up there with picking out a dollhouse and stuffed animals -- answering the question, what do you want to be when you grow up? ...

By Juan A. Lozano HOUSTON -- A former Houston Chronicle reporter announced Thursday that she has filed a federal gender discrimination complaint alleging she was fired because she failed to disclose that she also had worked as an exotic dancer. Sarah Tressler, 30, alleges that she was fired by the ...

Confession time: I am an unemployed writer. And I couldn't be happier. No, seriously. I couldn't be happier. I've been laid off twice since the Great Recession began and I've gone from being a Jaguar-driving, gourmet-food-shopping, designer-clothes-wearing marketing executive to being a yoga-pants-wearing, ...