Personal finance columnist Shannon Buggs has left the Houston Chronicle and is running Meta-Four Houston, the youth spoken-word poetry nonprofit she founded.
In an e-mail, Buggs told Talking Biz News, “After more than 16 years in daily newspaper journalism, I’m keeping my options open.”
“The journey started with Your Money, the column I wrote for six years with the goal of giving you the information you needed to make reasoned and sound choices about the money you made, saved and invested.
“What I wrote, I lived — having the same talks about money with my husband that I encouraged you to have with your significant other, paying off credit cards and student loans, refinancing mortgages, rebalancing portfolios and saving to buy new black boots during the post-holiday sales.
“And like you, I stumbled — spending way too much on nursery furniture when my first child was born and failing to keep track of medical expenses that got out of hand. Every error served as a reminder that emotion can trump common sense and knowledge.
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